1978 Omloop Het Volk
The 1978 Omloop Het Volk was the 33rd edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 4 March 1978. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Freddy Maertens. General classification References 1978 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

Freddy Maertens
Freddy Maertens (born 13 February 1952) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist who was twice world road race champion. His career coincided with the best years of another Belgian rider, Eddy Merckx, and supporters and reporters were split over who was better.Van Walleghem, Rik; Zwart-Wit (B) 2012 Maertens' career swung between winning more than 50 races in a season to winning almost none and then back again. His life has been marked by debt and alcoholism. It took him more than two decades to pay a tax debt. At one point early in his career, between the 1976 Tour and 1977 Giro, Maertens won 28 out of 60 Grand Tour stages that he entered before abandoning the Giro due to injury on stage 8b. Eight Tour stage wins, thirteen Vuelta stage wins and seven Giro stage wins in less than one calendar year. Personal life Maertens was the son of what his wife, Carine, described as a hard-working middle-class couple:Maertens, Carine, in introduction to Van Walleghem, Rik; Zwart-Wit ...
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Fons Van Katwijk
Alphonsus Wilhelmus Franciscus "Fons" van Katwijk (born 1 December 1951) is a retired Dutch cyclist who was active between 1971 and 1987. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and finished in 17th place in the 100 km team time trial (with Frits Pirard, Adri van Houwelingen and Arie Hassink). He won the Flèche du Sud (1971) and the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (1979) and individual stages of the Olympia's Tour (1976), Vuelta a Aragón (1977), Vuelta a España (1978), Étoile de Bessèges (1979) and Ronde van Nederland (1983). His brothers Piet and Jan, nephew Alain and daughter Nathalie were also professional cyclists. See also * List of Dutch Olympic cyclists This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who competed at the Summer Olympics. As of 2012 events in four cycling disciplines ( BMX, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling) have been contested at the Summer Olympics. Dutch cyclist did not com ... References 1951 births Living people Dutch male cyc ...
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Jan Raas
Jan Raas (born 8 November 1952) is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Valkenburg, he also won the Tour of Flanders in 1979 and 1983, Paris–Roubaix in 1982 and Milan–San Remo in 1977. He won ten stages in the Tour de France. In six starts, Raas won the Amstel Gold Race five times. In his entire career he competed in 23 of the highly contested "Monument" Races and he finished on the podium in almost half of them: 1st place four times and 3rd place six times. Raas was a tactician and clever sprinter. He struggled on the long steep climbs but excelled on the short climbs characteristic of the northern classics. Career Born in Heinkenszand, near Goes in Zeeland, Raas was the son of a farmer and one of 10 children. He showed no interest in cycling until leaving school at 16 when he acquired his first racing bike and started competing as a junior ...
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1977 Omloop Het Volk
The 1977 Omloop Het Volk was the 32nd edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 5 March 1977. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Freddy Maertens. General classification References 1977 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

1979 Omloop Het Volk
The 1979 Omloop Het Volk was the 34th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 3 March 1979. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck. General classification References 1979 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant prestige because of it. Since 2017, the race is part of the UCI World Tour, cycling's top-tier professional events. The race starts in Ghent, Flanders and finishes in Ninove, Flanders. The race route covers the hills in the Flemish Ardennes, marking the start of the cobbled classics season in Europe. Due to its early calendar date, it is characterized by often cold weather, coming as a contrast to the early-season stage races in the Middle East and Southern Europe. The day after the ''Omloop'', Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne completes the opening weekend. Since 2006, a women's edition of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is held on the same day as the men's race, also starting in Ghent and finishing in Ninove, approximately 130 kilometr ...
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Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. With 262,219 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and had ...
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André Dierickx
André Dierickx (born 29 October 1947) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist who competed between 1969 and 1981. He competed in the individual road race at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Notable results ;1970 – Flandria-Mars : 1st, GP Pino Cerami : 1st, Nokere Koerse : 1st, Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé ;1972 – Flandria-Beaulieu : 2nd, Paris–Roubaix ;1973 – Flandria-Carpenter : 1st, La Flèche Wallonne : 1st, Züri-Metzgete ;1974 – Flandria-Carpenter : 55th, Tour de France ;1975 – Rokado : 1st, La Flèche Wallonne : 1st, GP Kanton Aargau : 1st, Grand Prix de Wallonie : 1st, Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé : 3rd, Paris–Roubaix ;1976 – Maes-Rokado : 1st, GP Union Dortmund The Grand Prix Union Dortmund was a German cycling race organized for the last time in 1984. The course was between 130 and 172 km, with Dortmund as both start and finish place. The competition's roll of honor includes the successes of Ed ... : 1st ...
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Dietrich Thurau
Dietrich ("Didi") Thurau (; born 9 November 1954 in Frankfurt) is a retired German professional road bicycle racer. His biggest career achievements include winning the one-day classic, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, his home country's Deutschland Tour and surprising the field at the 1977 Tour de France by capturing four stages and holding the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification from the prologue for 15 days. Thurau did win the young rider classification although he lost the overall lead to eventual winner Bernard Thévenet. Thurau was German pursuit champion three times and won 29 six-day races. He is the father of former professional cyclist Björn Thurau. In 1989, he revealed he had doped throughout his career. Career He won the German National Road Race in 1975 and 1976. After his victory in the points classification in the Vuelta a España and a fourth place in the general classification in the Vuelta a España in 1976, Thurau was seen as a talented rider, ...
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Guido Van Calster
Guido Van Calster (born 6 February 1956) is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. He won the points classification in the 1984 Vuelta a España. Major results ;1977 : 2nd Flèche Ardennaise : 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir :: 1st Stages 2, 7, 8 & 12 ;1978 : 1st Stage 5 La Méditerranéenne : 3rd Paris–Tours : 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Omloop Het Volk : 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1979 : 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne : 7th Road race, National Road Championships : 9th Tour of Flanders : 10th Overall Tour of Belgium : 10th Rund um den Henninger Turm : 10th Ronde van Limburg ;1980 : 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 4th La Flèche Wallonne : 6th Overall Vuelta a España : 6th Overall Tour of Belgium : 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie : 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th Overall Tour du Haut Var : 10th Omloop Het Volk : 10th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen ;1981 : 1st Stage 5a Tour of the Basque Country : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 3rd La Flèche ...
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