13th Omloop van de Veenkolonieën, Elite Competition

Netherlands, March 28, 1998

Past Winners

Brief

The Omloop van de Veenkolonieën is organised by the RTC De Stormvogels of Veendam and is a round in the Elite Club Competition. The 158 kms race started and finished in the Winkler Prinsstraat in Veendam which is in the north east of the Netherlands.

The name of the race literally means the "Race of the Fen land community". In this part of the Netherlands they used to dig peat until it eventually ran out. With the loss of income from peat the area is very poor now relative to the Netherlands in general and there is a lot of unemployment.

In the last kilometers Marcel Nagengast had a little gap on the peloton. In the last corner it was Martijn Vos who closed the gap. In the sprint Herman Fledderus was too strong for Australian Baden Burke.

Veendam-Veendam, 158 kms

 1. Herman Fledderus (Ned) WSV Emmen                 3.34.25 (44.772)
 2. Baden Burke (Aus) WSV de Peddelaars
 3. Marcel Nagengast (Ned) WSV de Peddelaars
 4. Henk Tissingh (Ned) Olympia Heerenveen
 5. Harko Kievit (Ned) WTC Roden/Assen
 6. Edwin Veen (Ned) Omega
 7. Jos Wolfkamp (Ned) Cycle Club ‘75
 8. Martijn Vos (Ned) NWV Groningen
 9. Gert Jakobs (Ned) NWV Groningen
10. Herold Dat (Ned) WV Groenewoud
11. Herman Sinnigen (Ned) Omega                         1.22
12. Ben Timmermans (Ned) WSV Emmen                      1.23
13. Jan Willem Blaauw (Ned) Omega
14. Bram Tankink (Ned) Oldenzaalse WC
15. Frank Zwaneveld (Ned) WSV Emmen

Past Winners

1983    Janus Slendrebroek
1984    Piet Kleine
1985    Axel Hermans
1986    Dick Dekker
1987    -
1988    Carlo van der Berg
1989    Jos Wolfkamp
1990    Allard Engels
1991    Henk Nanninga
1992    Niels Boogaard
1993    -
1994    -
1995    Arjan Vinke
1996    Allard Engels
1997    Ines Jentink