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1972 La Flèche Wallonne
The 1972 La Flèche Wallonne was the 36th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 23 April 1972. The race started in Verviers and finished in Marcinelle. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team. General classification References 1972 in road cycling 1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ... 1972 in Belgian sport 1972 Super Prestige Pernod {{La Flèche Wallonne-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Merckx
Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), known as Eddy Merckx (, ), is a Belgian former professional road and track cyclist racer who is the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling. His victories include an unequalled eleven Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours (five Tour de France, Tours de France, five Giro d'Italia, Giros d'Italia, and a Vuelta a España), all five Cycling monument, Monuments, setting the hour record, three UCI Road World Championships, World Championships, every major one-day race other than Paris–Tours, and extensive victories on the track. Born in Meensel-Kiezegem, Province of Brabant, Brabant, Belgium, he grew up in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre where his parents ran a grocery store. He played several sports, but found his true passion in cycling. Merckx got his first bicycle at the age of three or four and competed in his first race in 1961. His first victory came at Petit-Enghien in October 1961. After winning eighty races as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Pintens
Georges Pintens (born 15 October 1946 in Antwerp) is a former professional road bicycle racer from Belgium who excelled at one-day classic races during the 1960s and 1970s. Pintens most successful year was in 1971 when he captured the Belgian classic, Gent–Wevelgem, and the General classification, overall title at the Tour de Suisse but finished second to Eddy Merckx at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. In 1974, Pintens returned to win Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Major results ;1969 – Mann-Grundig * 1st, Rund um den Henninger Turm ;1970 – Mann-Grundig * 1st, 1970 Amstel Gold Race, Amstel Gold Race ;1971 – Hertekamp-Magniflex * 1st, Gent–Wevelgem * 1st overall, Tour de Suisse * 2nd, Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1972 – Van Cauter-Magniflex-de Gribaldy * 1st, GP Kanton Aargau ;1973 – Rokado * 1st, Rund um den Henninger Turm * 1st, Ruta del Sol * 1st, Prologue, Tour of Belgium ;1974 – MIC-Ludo-de Gribaldy * 1st, Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1975 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 In Road Cycling
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Swerts
Roger Swerts (born 28 December 1942) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. As an amateur he placed 18th in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 1965 UCI Road World Championships. He turned professional later in 1965. Major results ;1962 : 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne ::1st Stage 5 ;1964 : 1st Stage 10 Tour de l'Avenir ;1965 : 3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies : 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 7th Overall Course de la Paix ;1966 : 1st Stage 2b ( TTT) Tour of Belgium : 4th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke : 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 5th La Flèche Wallonne : 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1967 : 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ;1968 : 1st Grand Prix de Monaco : 1st Stage 6a Volta a Catalunya : 4th Brabantse Pijl : 4th Heist-op-den-Berg : 5th Sassari-Cagliari : 6th Overall Tour of Belgium : 8th Giro del Veneto : 8th Omloop der Zennev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Mortensen
Leif Mortensen (born 5 May 1946) is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He won a silver medal in the individual road race at the 1968 Summer Olympics while finishing fourth in the team time trial. In 1970–1975 he rode professionally with the following achievements. Palmarès ; 1967 : 2nd, World Road Championships, 100 km TTT ; 1968 : 2nd, Olympic Games, Road race, Mexico City ; 1969 : 2nd, World Road Championships, 100 km TTT : 1st, World Road Championships, Amateur road race, Brno ; 1970 : 2nd, World Road Championships, Professional road race, Leicester ; 1971 : 1st, Hellemmes : 1st, Trofeo Baracchi (with Luis Ocaña) : 6th, Overall, Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ... ; 1972 : 1st, Le Quillo ; 1973 : 1st, GP Aix-en-Provence : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wim Schepers
Wim Schepers (25 September 1943 – 25 September 1998) was a Dutch professional road cyclist. A professional from 1966 to 1975, he won two stages of the 1970 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and finished second in the 1972 Liège–Bastogne–Liège to Eddy Merckx. After the final stage of the 1971 Vuelta a España, Schepers was ranked in second place, 19 seconds behind Ferdinand Bracke, but he was given a ten-minute time penalty for a doping offence, and dropped to 15th. Major results ;1965 : 1st Stages 1 & 6 Tour of Austria ;1966 : 1st Manx Trophy : 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;1967 : 3rd National Road Race Championships : 4th Amstel Gold Race ;1968 : 4th Rund um den Henninger Turm : 5th Amstel Gold Race : 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 9th Overall Tour of Belgium ;1969 : 1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde : 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium ;1970 : 1st Stages 2a & 2b Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk : 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm : 10t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaaf Van Roosbroeck
Gustaf Van Roosbroeck (born 16 May 1948 in Hulshout) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer who competed in the 1970s. He finished fifth in the 1974 Amstel Gold Race. Major results ;1969 :1st Stages 2 & 3 Olympia's Tour ;1971 :1st Scheldeprijs :1st Stage 5 Tour of Belgium ;1972 :1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne :1st Grand Prix de Denain :1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs :1st Omloop van de Fruitstreek :1st Stage 2 Grand Prix de Fourmies :6th Paris–Roubaix ;1973 :1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs :1st Trofeo Luis Puig :1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia :1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse :1st Prologue ( TTT) Tour of Belgium ;1974 :1st Flèche Hesbignonne :1st Stage 5 Tour de Romandie :2nd Züri-Metzgete :3rd Le Samyn ;1975 :7th Tour of Flanders ;1978 :1st Nokere Koerse :1st Gullegem Koerse :2nd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens :3rd Züri-Metzgete :3rd Grand Prix de Denain ;1979 :1st Overall Three Days of De Panne :1st Dwars door België :2nd Circuit de Wallonie ;1980 :2nd Overall Three Days of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Santy
Alain Santy (born August 28, 1949) is a former French professional cyclist. Biography He is the brother of Guy Santy, who was also a professional cyclist. Santy was professional from 1970 to 1976. He had 10 wins as a professional. His most important victory was the first place of the Critérium du Dauphiné in 1974. Major results ;1972 :1st Criterium d'Aix-en-Provence ;1973 :1st Overall Tour de Picardie ;1974 :1st Paris–Camembert :1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné ::1st Stage 4 ;1975 :1st Stages 2 & 4 Étoile de Bessèges :1st Le Samyn Results in the Tour de France *1972 Tour de France, 1972: DNF *1973 Tour de France, 1973: 31st *1974 Tour de France, 1974: 9th *1975 Tour de France, 1975: DNF References 1949 births Living people French male cyclists 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Cauter–Magniflex–de Gribaldy
Van Cauter–Magniflex–de Gribaldy was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed in 1972. It was the successor of the Belgium team Hertekamp–Magniflex and the predecessor of the Italian team . It participated in the 1972 Tour de France The 1972 Tour de France was the 59th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. It took place from 1 to 22 July, with 20 stages covering a distance of . After riding strongly in the first two weeks of the .... References Cycling teams based in Belgium Defunct cycling teams based in Belgium 1972 establishments in Belgium 1972 disestablishments in Belgium Cycling teams established in 1972 Cycling teams disestablished in 1972 {{Belgium-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Bellone
Gilbert Bellone (born 27 December 1942 in Grasse) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1962 :Grasse ;1965 :Saint-Vallier ;1966 :Guéret :Prix de Saint-Céré :Chateauneuf :Saint-Claud ;1967 :Toulon :Vuelta a España: ::Winner stage 8 ;1968 :Vailly-sur-Sauldre :Maurs :Ronde de Seignelay :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 10 ;1969 :Critérium International :GP de Cannes :Guingamp ;1972 :Bain-de-Bretagne :Rund um den Henninger-Turm Rund is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cathleen Rund (born 1977), German swimmer * Hanno Rund (1925–1993), German mathematician * Thorsten Rund (born 1976), German road and track cyclist See also * Rand (surname) * R ... ;1973 :Auray External links * * French male cyclists 1942 births Living people French Tour de France stage winners French Vuelta a España stage winners Sportspeople from Grasse Cyclists from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Poulidor
Raymond Poulidor (; 15 April 1936 – 13 November 2019), nicknamed "Pou-Pou" (), was a French professional road bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who rode for his entire career. His distinguished career coincided with two other outstanding riders – Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. This underdog position may have been the reason Poulidor was a favourite of the public. He was known as "The Eternal Second", because he never won the Tour de France despite finishing in second place three times, and in third place five times (including his final Tour at the age of 40). Despite his consistency, he never wore the yellow jersey as leader of the General classification in the Tour de France, general classification in 14 Tours (of which he completed 12). He did win one Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour, the 1964 Vuelta a España. Of the eighteen Grand Tours that he entered in his career, he finished in the top 10 fifteen times. Early life and amateur career Raymond Poulidor was the son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molteni (cycling Team)
Molteni was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team from 1958 until the end of 1976. It won 663 races, many of them earned by its most famous rider, Eddy Merckx. Other riders included Gianni Motta and Marino Basso, who contributed 48 and 34 wins respectively. The Molteni family continues in cycling with sponsorship of Salmilano. The sponsors Molteni were Italian salami manufacturers based in Arcore, near Milan. History The Molteni team began in 1958 with Renato Molteni as team manager. It was started by Pietro Molteni. The team was also managed by his son, Ambrogio Molteni, a former professional rider. The former Italian road champion, Giorgio Albani, finished his career with Molteni in 1959 and came back two years later as directeur sportif. The team had success with Gianni Motta in the 1966 Giro d'Italia and Michele Dancelli in the classics. Merckx joined at the end of 1970, having twice won the Tour de France and two editions of the Giro d'Italia. Molteni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
