Rik Moorman

Rikard "Rik" Moorman (born 3 August 1961 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch track and road cyclist. During his career he became multiple times national track cycling champion and stationary bicycle world record holder. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Biography Personal life Moorman was born in Amsterdam, where he also lived during his career.

His brother Ralph was also a track cyclist, and they competed together both on the road and track.

Moorman started in 1985 as an amateur road cyclist and had twelve victories in his first year.

The next year in 1986 he had even nineteen victories. In that year he also won on the track the Two Days of Alkmaar.

He was one of the favorite cyclist for the 1986 National Championships in the Derny event.

In January 1987 he set the 24-hours world record on a stationary bicycle with Jan de Nijs and Piet Vilten with a distance of 3209.6 kilometres, beating the former world record with almost 210 kilometres. The longest distance rode in half-an-hour was by Moorman with 89.9 kilometres.