# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noppie-koch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:55:55.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noppie-koch"
name: "Noppie Koch"
slug: "noppie-koch"
description: "Longinus Johannes Norbert \"Noppie\" Koch was a cyclist and pacer from the Netherlands. As a cyclist he became national champion in 1959, 1962 and 1963 and won two bronze medals at the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1959 and 1960, in the professionals category. He was then injured in an accident at the factory where he worked and had to retire from racing. He became a pacer in motor-paced racing, bringing Piet de Wit, Leo Proost, Martin Venix and Mattheus Pronk to the UCI Motor-paced World Championships titles."
tagline: "Dutch cyclist (1932–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Noppie_Koch_1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1932-03-22"
deathDate: "2010-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.069798666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Koch"
    title: "Norbert Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "نوپى كوتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Koch"
    title: "Norbert Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Koch_(Radsportler%2C_1932)"
    title: "Norbert Koch (Radsportler, 1932)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppie_Koch"
    title: "Noppie Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Koch"
    title: "Norbert Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D9%BE%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%AE"
    title: "نوپی کخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Koch"
    title: "Norbert Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppie_Koch"
    title: "Noppie Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461245"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump