Bert Oosterbosch

Bert Oosterbosch (30 July 1957 to 18 August 1989) was a Dutch racing cyclist who succeeded on both the track and the road. As an amateur he was part of the Dutch team that won the world amateur team time trial championship in 1978, and after turning professional with the TI-Raleigh team of Peter Post in 1979 he won the world professional individual pursuit title, beating Francesco Moser in the final. He was also three times Dutch pursuit champion. On the road he was a specialist against the clock, winning fourteen stage race prologues including three in the Tour de France, plus three Tour stages, and he took the Ronde van Nederland in 1982. Poor health, including two bouts of meningitis and severe knee trouble, ended his professional career in 1988, and he died of an acute cardiac arrest in 1989 aged thirty-two.