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1981 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 1981 E3 Harelbeke was the 24th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 28 March 1981. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Jan Raas of the TI–Raleigh team. General classification References 1981 in Belgian sport March 1981 sports events in Europe 1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
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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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Henk Lubberding
Henk Lubberding (born 4 August 1953 in Voorst) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1977 to 1992. As an amateur, he finished third in the 1976 Tour de l'Avenir. The following year he turned professional with the Dutch cycling team TI–Raleighof Peter Post. Lubberding stayed his entire career in teams directed by Post. In 1978, Lubberding was road race champion of the Netherlands and won a stage in the 1978 Tour de France, finishing eighth overall and best young rider. He was a good mountain climber despite being tall, and from the low lands of Holland. After team leader Hennie Kuiper left, Lubberding and Paul Wellens became co-leaders and Lubberding performed well throughout 1979 with high placings in Paris–Nice, the Amstel Gold Race, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour de Romandie, Rund um den Henninger-Turm and the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. He won the Dutch road race title again and finished 18th in the 1979 Tour de France. His role of ...
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1981 In Belgian Sport
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán Department, Morazán and Chalatenango Department, Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican City, Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is First inauguration of Ronald Reagan, sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DMC DeLorean, DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An 1981 Dawu ea ...
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Marc Demeyer
Marc Demeyer (19 April 1950 – 20 January 1982) was a professional road racing cyclist from Avelgem, Belgium. He died of a heart attack at the age of 31. Demeyer turned professional in 1972 for the Flandria team managed by Briek Schotte. He signed the contract while resting it on a car beside the start of Dwars door België, which he then won. Shortly afterwards he won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues. Demeyer was one of the so-called "Three Musketeers", riding with and for Freddy Maertens and Michel Pollentier He led out sprints for Maertens in particular but could win them for himself, including stages of the Tour de France. He rode the Tour six times, finishing 72nd in 1973, 41st in 1974, 42nd in 1975, 56th in 1976, 49th in 1978 and 57th in 1979. He won the intermediate sprints competition, known then as Points Chaud ('hot spot sprints') in the Tours of 1973 and 1975. He won two stages: the 19th in 1978 from Lausanne to Belfort, and the 14th in 1979 from Belfort to Evian-les-Ba ...
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Eddy Planckaert
Eddy Planckaert (born 22 September 1958 in Nevele) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. In 1988, Planckaert enjoyed perhaps his best year by capturing the green jersey (points competition) at the 1988 Tour de France and winning the Tour of Flanders. In 1990, he won Paris–Roubaix, his second '' monumental classic'', with the closest finish in the race's history beating Canadian Steve Bauer by less than a cm. A strong sprinter, Planckaert is one of the riders with stage wins at all three cycling Grand Tours. Eddy Planckaert is the brother of fellow cyclists Willy and Walter Planckaert. Eddy is also the uncle of Jo Planckaert and the father of Francesco Planckaert. More than 10 years after his cycling career, the former racer got back into the public eye with a long running reality TV show about his family life, on Vtm. After the 2016 Paris-Roubaix, Planckaert declared that second-placed Tom Boonen should have made a deal with eventual winner Mathew Hayma ...
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Eddy Vanhaerens
Eddy Vanhaerens (born 23 February 1954) is a Belgian former racing cyclist. Major results ;1976 : 1st Omloop van de Westhoek : 2nd Kattekoers ;1977 : 1st Stage 3a Volta a Catalunya : 2nd Schaal Sels : 2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden : 2nd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde : 2nd Omloop van het Zuidwesten : 2nd GP du Tournaisis : 7th Grand Prix Cerami ;1978 : 3rd GP du Tournaisis : 6th Omloop van het Houtland : 8th GP Stad Vilvoorde : 8th De Kustpijl : 9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 9th Schaal Sels ;1980 : 1st Stage 5b Four Days of Dunkirk : 2nd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint : 3rd Paris–Tours ;1981 : 4th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 7th Dwars door België : 7th Ronde van Limburg : 8th Gent–Wevelgem : 8th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen : 8th Brussels–Ingooigem ;1982 : 1st Grand Prix de Denain : 1st Stages 15a & 19 Vuelta a España : 1st Omloop van het Houtland : 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Aragón ::1st Po ...
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Hennie Kuiper
Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic road race at Munich in 1972, becoming world professional road race champion in 1975, as well as winning four of the five "Monument" classics. He rode the Tour de France 12 times, finishing second twice and winning the stage to Alpe d'Huez on two occasions. Kuiper, Ercole Baldini and Paolo Bettini are the only riders to have won both the Olympic road race and the world professional road race. Biography Kuiper was born in Denekamp, in Overijssel province. His serious introduction to the bicycle was to and from school in Enschede. He started participating in junior races from 14 and from 19 to 23 he won 39 times as an amateur. The climax of his amateur career was gold in the Olympic road race in Munich in 1972, riding the final 40 km alone. He also won the Tour of Britain (Milk Race) that year. Professional career Kui ...
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Jos Schipper
Jos Schipper (born 10 June 1951) is a former Dutch racing cyclist. He rode in four Grand Tours In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the ''Grand Tours'', and all three races are similar in ... between 1978 and 1982. References External links * 1951 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) Cyclists from Utrecht (province) {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Roger De Vlaeminck
Roger De Vlaeminck (; born 24 August 1947) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist. He was described by Rik Van Looy as "The most talented and the only real classics rider of his generation". Nicknamed “The Gypsy” because he was born into a family of traveling clothiers, he is known for exploits in the cobbled classic Paris–Roubaix race, but his performances in other “Monument” races gave him a record that few can match. His record in Paris–Roubaix earned him another nickname, “Monsieur Paris–Roubaix” (English: “Mr. Paris–Roubaix“). Early life and amateur career De Vlaeminck was born on 24 August 1947 in the East Flanders town of Eeklo, His first love was football. At the age of 16 he debuted for F.C. Eeklo. He could have made a career in the sport, however his elder brother Erik was having success as a pro cyclist and this persuaded Roger to try cycling. He raced as a junior in 1965, gaining one win, but 1966 saw 25 victories. Roger and Erik spen ...
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Ludo Delcroix
Ludo Delcroix (born 28 October 1950) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who won the 9th stage in the 1979 Tour de France. He also competed in the team time trial at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1972 : 4th, 1972 Olympic Games - Team Time Trial ;1973 : 1st, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Waver, Sint-Amandsberg & Wondelgem : 5th, Züri-Metzgete ;1974 : 1st, Omloop Polder-Kempen ;1975 : 1st, Omloop Leiedal ;1976 : 1st, Sinaai ;1977 : 1st, Circuit Franco-Belge : 1st, Stage 5, Tour de Romandie ;1978 : 1st, Omloop Polder-Kempen : 1st, Stage 3a, Etoile des Espoirs : 1st, Stage 2, Three Days of De Panne : 1st, Boezinge, Oostakker & Zele ;1979 : 1st, Stage 9, Tour de France : 1st, Berlare & Nieuwmoer ;1980 : 1st, Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 1st, Stage 1, Ronde van Nederland : 1st, Boechout & Purnode ;1981 : 1st, Nieuwmoer : 8th, Bordeaux–Paris The Bordeaux–Paris professional cycle race was one of Europe's classic cycle races, and one of the longest in the profess ...
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TI–Raleigh
TI–Raleigh was a Dutch professional track cycling and road bicycle racing team between 1972 and 1983. In that decade the team won over 900 races. The team was created and led by Peter Post. In his own cycling career, his nickname was the ''Six Days Emperor'', being a track champion. He also won the 1964 fast edition of Paris–Roubaix. Post was pretty harsh on himself. He had no time to celebrate and was always looking ahead at the next races. That attitude might have been the key to the teams succes. The team was successful in classics and in stage races. Notable riders included Joop Zoetemelk, Jan Raas, Gerrie Knetemann, Hennie Kuiper, Urs Freuler, Henk Lubberding, René Pijnen, Johan van der Velde and Dietrich Thurau. The team was known for discipline; team time trials were a speciality. The frame-building was overseen by Jan le Grand at Raleigh's SBDU Ilkeston facility. Team Time Trials TI–Raleigh was unbeatable in the team time trials of the 1978 to 1982 Tour de France. I ...
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Harelbeke
Harelbeke (; vls, Oarlbeke) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Harelbeke proper and the towns of Bavikhove and Hulste. On January 1, 2019, Harelbeke had a total population of 28,447. The total area is 29.14 km² which gives a population density of 898 inhabitants per km². Inhabitants consider their hometown to be a "Weireldstad" (metropolis), which also led to a monthly "Harelbekedag" amongst the students of Harelbeke studying in Ghent. In Harelbeke a museum remembers the life and work of musician and composer Peter Benoit, called the Peter Benoit Huis. Famous natives * Andreas Pevernage (1542/1543 – 1591), composer of the late Renaissance * Jacobus Vaet (1529-1567), Renaissance composer, possibly born in Harelbeke * Armand Coeck (1941 - ), avant-garde composer * Jan Bucquoy (1945 - ), anarchist and film-maker ('' Camping Cosmos'') * Peter Benoit, composer * Wim Opbrouck, actor and si ...
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