Maarten Ducrot

Maarten Ducrot (born 8 April 1958) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, and currently a cycling reporter for the Dutch television. He is the great-grandson of Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot.

Biography Ducrot rode the Tour de France five times, of which he finished four times. In his first Tour in 1985, he won the 9th stage. After the Tour, he was given the combativity award. He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Ducrot ended his professional cycling career in 1991, after which he worked as organisation advisor. Since 2004, he is a cycling reporter for the Dutch television program Studio Sport.

In January 2000, on the Dutch TV-show Reporter, he admitted that he had used cortisone and testosterone, as well as Synacthen, "a very bad medicine", and he still regrets using it. Ducrot said he used synacthen in 1982 when he was an amateur.

Major results

1982

1983 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1984 2nd Overall Étoile des Espoirs 1985 Tour de France 1st Stage 9

1st Profronde van Wateringen 5th Overall Giro di Puglia 1986 1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 7a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Stage 8 Coors Classic 1987 1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of the Netherlands 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 1988 1st GP de la Liberté Fribourg 3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 7th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm 9th GP Stad Zottegem 1989 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 5th Overall Tour of the Netherlands 1990 1st Profronde van Oostvoorne 6th Druivenkoers-Overijse 1991 10th GP Stad Zottegem

Grand Tour general classification results timeline