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Full name | Jan van Eijden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, West Germany | 10 August 1976|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | British Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jan van Eijden (born 10 August 1976 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German track cyclist born in Bad Neuenahr. He is a double World Champion in sprint and team sprint. He also won one world cup classic and four German national titles.
He retired from active racing in 2006 and worked as a sprint coach for the Great Britain Cycling Team until November 2021.[1][2]