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The recordholder for the Six Days of Amsterdam is the Dutch cyclist Danny Stam with four victories. The most recent edition took place in 2016 and was won by Belgians Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw , their third Six Day victory as a duo.
Pete Jordan, In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist, HarperCollins publishers, 2013, ISBN 9780061995200. A memoir of this American's love affair with Amsterdam and its bike-centric culture. Shirley Agudo, The Dutch & Their Bikes: Scenes from a Nation of Cyclists, XPat Scriptum Publishers, 2014, ISBN 9789055948994. A photobook ...
12 June – A court convicts three people and sentences them to between 26 and 28 years imprisonment for the murder of journalist Peter R. de Vries in 2021. [ 19 ] 20 June – Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte is selected to assume the NATO Secretariat for a term that begins on 2 October 2024.
The Amstel Gold Race is a one-day classic road cycling race held annually since 1966 in the province of Limburg, Netherlands.It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classics riders as the favourites.
[2] He and his family immigrated to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to move away from what he claims to be car-centric suburban sprawl. He also claims that sprawl is common in Canada and the United States, which makes it more difficult to walk , cycle , and make use of public transportation . [ 2 ]
In its 50-year existence, the event has been cancelled twice: in 1978, after the sponsor withdrew, and in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. In the inaugural edition of 1975, Jørgen Jensen was the men's winner, in a time of 2:16:51 ( h : m : s ) , and Plonie Scheringa was the women's winner, finishing in 3:13:38.
The same year, Dutchwoman Marja Wokke had her first victory and set a new women's course record of 2:40:15. Wokke's second victory came the next year and also Szekeres had his second victory in Amsterdam in 1981. In 1982, Annie van Stiphout improved the women's course record with more than five minutes to 2:37:28.
A hundred years later (circa 1300), Jan I van Amstel (son of Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel and Johanna van der Lede), [21] was brought into the newly with city rights recognized Amsterdam and admitted as their lord and was somewhat restored as lord of Amstelle. He was also ruler of Amsterdam during the siege of Amsterdam that followed shortly thereafter.