Willem "Wim" van Est was a Dutch racing cyclist, born on 25 March 1923 in Fijnaart, North Brabant, the second of sixteen children, and died on 1 May 2003 in Sint Willebrord. He is best known for becoming the first Dutch rider to wear the yellow jersey as leader of the 1951 Tour de France, after winning the stage from Agen to Dax, and for falling into a ravine on the Col d'Aubisque the next day while wearing it. He was hauled back to the road with a rope made of tyre tubes, and a monument was placed on the mountain in 2001. He also won Bordeaux-Paris three times and the Ronde van Nederland twice.
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