Jelle Nijdam, the former wearer of the yellow jersey who won six Tour de France stages, claimed two victories in Dordrecht: that was at the turn of the 1990s, when the Tour of the Netherlands regularly visited the city once known as Dordracum and reputed to be the oldest in the country. The home of Lucinda Brand, winner of the Grand Prix de Plouay (2014) and the cyclo-cross world champion in 2021, this is a magnificent town, built on the water and located in the middle of the De Biesbosch national park nature reserve. Dominated by its immense church, the Grote Kerk, its city centre has a number of remarkable monuments and houses.
- Municipality in the province of South Holland (Netherlands)
- Population: 119,000; 238,000 within the conurbation; 7,100,000 within the Randstad conurbation
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