# Frans Maassen

Franciscus ("Frans") Albertus Antonius Johannes Maassen (born 27 January 1965 in Haelen, Limburg) is a directeur sportif. He was a professional road racing cyclist between 1987 and 1995. He completed seven Tour de France stage races, including the 1990 Tour de France where he was involved in the Stage 1 breakaway that caused the rest of the race to be the most surprising Tour in over a decade. He was the only one of the four breakaway riders not to wear the maillot jaune, but he won the stage. He twice won the Tour of Belgium, and won the 1994 Tour de Luxembourg.
Since 2005, Maassen has been the assistant directeur sportif of the Rabobank, a Netherlands-based UCI ProTour team.

## Major results
### 1986

    1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
    2nd Overall Tour of Sweden

### 1987

    1st Stage 2 Danmark Rundt
    2nd GP du Canton d'Argovie
    7th Brussels–Ingooigem
    8th Tour Méditerranéen

### 1988

    1st Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Stages 3a & 3b (ITT)
    1st Prologue Étoile de Bessèges
    1st Stage 2 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
    1st Stage 4a Tour de Romandie
    1st Stage 6a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
    6th Overall Tour of Sweden

### 1989

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Wincanton Classic
    2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    2nd Milan–San Remo
    3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    4th UCI Road World Cup
    4th De Brabantse Pijl

### 1990

    1st Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Prologue & Stage 5a (ITT)
    1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges
       1st Stage 6 (ITT)
    1st De Brabantse Pijl
    1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    1st Stage 1 Tour de France
    2nd Overall Tour of Sweden
       1st Stages 2 & 3
    3rd Druivenkoers Overijse
    4th Gent–Wevelgem
    6th Overall Nissan Classic
    7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
    9th Rund um den Henninger Turm

### 1991

    1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 2b (ITT)
    1st Amstel Gold Race
    1st Stage 5b Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
    2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
    2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
    2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Stage 5
    5th Tour of Flanders
    5th Circuit des Frontières
    6th UCI Road World Cup
    6th Grand Prix des Nations
    10th Wincanton Classic

### 1992

    1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
    Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stages 2 & 3b (ITT)
    1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    2nd Paris–Brussels
    2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
    5th Tour of Flanders
    5th GP Ouest–France
    8th Paris–Tours

### 1993

    1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
    1st Stage 4 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Andalucía
    2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
    2nd Tour of Flanders
    2nd Circuit des Frontières
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships
    5th De Brabantse Pijl
    6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
    7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
    10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

### 1994

    1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic

### 1995

    1st Profronde van Heerlen
    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    2nd Rund um Köln
    6th Overall Ronde van Nederland