# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-van-bon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:58.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-van-bon"
name: "Léon van Bon"
slug: "leon-van-bon"
description: "Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon is a retired road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the HEW Cyclassics. In 2001 he claimed the overall-victory in the Ronde van Nederland. Van Bon retired in 2013."
tagline: "Dutch cyclist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonvanbon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1972-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.96418533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Леон ван Бон"
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    title: "Léon van Bon"
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    title: "Léon van Bon"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_van_Bon"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_van_Bon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump