Piet Dickentman

Pieter Casper Johan "Piet" Dikkentman (4 January 1879 – 7 October 1950) was a professional cyclist from the Netherlands. He had a long a successful career spanning from 1885 to 1928, which peaked in 1903 when he won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships. He competed internationally and married twice, to an Australian and to a German. Consequently, while he lived most of his life in Amsterdam, he also spent years in Germany and Australia.

Biography Piet Dickentman as world champion at the 1903 Track Cycling World Championships at the Ordrup velodrome in Copenhagen. He was born in Amsterdam to Pieter Casper Dikkentman, a carpenter, and Sophia Diederica Boekstal. After finishing school he trained as mechanical engineer.