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1987 La Flèche Wallonne
The 1987 La Flèche Wallonne was the 51st edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 15 April 1987. The race started in Spa and finished in Huy. The race was won by Jean-Claude Leclercq of the Toshiba team. General classification References 1987 in road cycling 1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ... 1987 in Belgian sport 1987 Super Prestige Pernod International {{La Flèche Wallonne-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Leclercq
Jean-Claude Leclercq (; born 22 July 1962 in Abbeville) is a French former professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1984 : 7th Overall Tour du Limousin ::1st Stage 3 ;1985 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships ;1986 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd La Flèche Wallonne : 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 9th Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 5 ;1987 : 1st La Flèche Wallonne : 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie : 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1988 : 1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse ;1989 : 6th Clásica de San Sebastián ;1990 : Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stages 3 & 6 : 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 2nd La Flèche Wallonne : 2nd Milano–Torino : 3rd Overall Critérium International : 6th Amstel Gold Race ;1991 : 1st Chur-Arosa : 1st Prologue Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie : 1st Stage 1 Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvon Madiot
Yvon Madiot (born 21 June 1962) is a French former racing cyclist. He won the French national road race title in 1986, going on to finish tenth in that year's Tour de France. He is the younger brother of fellow retired racing cyclist and double winner of Paris–Roubaix, Marc Madiot, and works alongside Marc as part of the management of the cycling team as an assistant sports director. He has played a particularly important role in developing young riders, mentoring Arthur Vichot, Jérémy Roy, Cédric Pineau, Mathieu Ladagnous, Mickaël Delage, Arnaud Démare and William Bonnet, among others. Major results Road ;1983 : 1st Stage 10 Course de la Paix : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Normandie : 5th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;1984 : 1st Grand Prix de Cannes ;1985 : 2nd Chanteloup-les-Vignes : 3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec : 5th La Flèche Wallonne : 5th Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali : 9th Paris–Camembert ;1986 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Bordea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 In Road Cycling
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreno Argentin
Moreno Argentin (born 17 December 1960) is an Italian former professional cyclist (from 1981 to 1994) and race director. Born in San Donà di Piave (Veneto), he won stages in the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Tour de Suisse. Known as ''Il Capo'' ("The Boss"), he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège four times, the La Flèche Wallonne three times, and the Tour of Flanders and Giro di Lombardia once. He became Italian national champion in 1983 and 1989, and world champion in 1986. He is the founder of the Adriatica Ionica Race which was run for the first time in 2018. Career achievements Major results ;1977 :1st National Junior Track Championships (Team Pursuit) ;1978 :1st National Junior Track Championships (Team Pursuit) :1st National Junior Road Championships, Team Time Trial ;1979 :1st National Amateur Track Championships (Team Pursuit) :1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia :1st Prologue & Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta :1st Team classification Ster van het Zuide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Volpi
Alberto Volpi (born 9 December 1962) is an Italian former road bicycle racer. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He formerly worked as a directeur sportif A ''directeur sportif'' (French for sporting director, although the original French term is often used in English-language media; plural ''directeurs sportifs'') is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is se ... at Barloworld (cycling team), Barloworld cycling team. Major results ;1985 :1st, Gran Premio Città di Camaiore :10th, Overall, 1985 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ::1st, Young rider classification ;1989 :1st, Overall, Giro di Calabria ::1st, Stage 1 ;1993 :1st, Wincanton Classic ;1997 :1st, Stage 3, Volta ao Alentejo References External links * * 1962 births Living people Italian male cyclists Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Italy Cyclists from the Province of Varese People from Saronno {{Italy-cycli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Gayant
Martial Gayant (born 16 November 1962 in Chauny) is a former French cyclist, now a team captain of . In 1988, Gayant came second in the World road Championships. Major results Source: ;1981 * GP des Nations, amateurs ;1984 * Giro d'Italia: stage 10 ;1985 * Paris–Camembert ;1986 * GP Ouest France-Plouay * French national champion field riding ;1987 * Four Days of Dunkirk: Stage 4 * Tour de France: Stage 11 ;1989 * Grand Prix de Fourmies ;1990 * Tour de l'Avenir: Stage 8 * Tour de Limousin Tours de France Source: *1985 – outside time limit on stage 15 *1987 – 34th; winner of 11th stage, wearing the yellow jersey for 2 days *1988 – 71st * 1989 – 32nd *1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ... – withdrew on stage 6 References 1962 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dag Otto Lauritzen
Dag Otto Lauritzen (born 12 September 1956) is a Norwegian people, Norwegian television personality and retired professional cycle sport, cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won a bronze medal in the Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, individual road race. He was the first Norwegian to win a stage of the Tour de France, which he did on Bastille Day in 1987 Tour de France, 1987 at Luz Ardiden. Over his career he rode the Tour de France eight times. Lauritzen began cycling to recuperate from a military parachuting injury, and switched careers from police officer to cyclist. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships, Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1984 and the Norwegian National Time Trial Championships, Norwegian National Time Trial Championship in 1990. He is now a cycling commentator on Norwegian TV station TV 2 (Norway), TV 2. Major results ;1983 : 1st Road race, Nordic Road Championships : 1st Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Watson (cyclist)
Paul Watson (born 5 May 1962) is a former professional English road racing cyclist from Milton Keynes. He was national road race champion, raced in the Tour de France and made headlines finishing 6th in the Belgium classic La Flèche Wallonne. Palmarès Road ;1984 :2nd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers ;1985 :14th World Championship road race (Amateur) :1st Stage 10 Milk Race, Halifax :3rd Overall, Milk Race : Winner of the British National Road Race Championships (Amateur) ;1986 :3rd Stage 11 Milk Race, Welwyn Garden City :3rd in Stage 1 Mercian Two-Day :3rd Overall, Mercian Two-Day ;1987 :3rd La Marseillaise :6th British National Road Race Championships (Professional) : DNF- Tour de France :3rd GP Besseges :6th La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Roche
Stephen Roche (; born 28 November 1959) is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming the second of only two cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia general classification, plus the World road race championship, the first was Eddy Merckx. Roche's rise coincided with that of fellow Irishman Sean Kelly. Although one of the finest cyclists of his generation and admired for his pedalling style, he struggled with knee injuries and never contended in the Grand Tours post-1987. He had 58 professional career wins. All of these wins still stand, despite Roche having been accused by an Italian judge of taking EPO in the later part of his career. Early life and amateur career On completion of his apprenticeship as a machinist in a Dublin dairy and following a successful amateur career in Ireland with the "Orwell Wheelers" club coached by Noel O'Neill of Dundrum (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Criquielion
Claude Criquielion (11 January 1957 – 18 February 2015) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who raced between 1979 and 1990. In 1984, Criquielion became the world road race champion in Barcelona, Spain on a gruelling course. He had five top-ten finishes in the Tour de France. Criquielion was well placed to win a medal in the 1988 world road race championship in Belgium. However, he crashed in sight of the line when another competitor, Steve Bauer of Canada, clashed with him. The third rider, Maurizio Fondriest, went on to win. Bauer was disqualified and Criquielion sued Bauer for assault, asking for $1.5 million in damages in a case that lasted more than three years before the judge ruled in Bauer's favor. At the national championship race in 1985, he tested positive for Pervitin, but received no repercussions. The head of the laboratory at Ghent University, which had administered the analysis, subsequently resigned his post in the Medical Commission of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vie Claire
La Vie Claire was a professional road bicycle racing team named after its chief sponsor La Vie Claire, a chain of health food stores. History The La Vie Claire team was created in 1984 by Bernard Tapie and directed by Paul Köchli. The team included five-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault, and three-time winner, Greg LeMond, as well as Andrew Hampsten and the Canadian Steve Bauer. With Hinault winning the Tour in 1985, and LeMond winning in 1986, plus winning the team trophy both years, La Vie Claire cemented their place in cycling team history. The team formed after Bernard Hinault had a dispute with his former directeur sportif Cyrille Guimard of Renault-Elf-Gitane with whom Hinault had won four editions of the Tour de France. After Hinault's teammate Laurent Fignon won the 1983 Tour de France while Hinault was injured, Fignon became the designated leader of the team. Hinault formed the La Vie Claire team with Tapie and Köchli and steadily built up his form. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spa, Belgium
Spa (; wa, Spå) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium, whose name became an eponym for mineral baths with supposed curative properties. It is situated in a valley in the Ardennes mountains south-east of Liège and south-west of Aachen. In 2006, Spa had a population of 10,543 and an area of , giving a population density of . Spa is one of Belgium's most popular tourist destinations, being renowned for its natural mineral springs and production of "Spa" mineral water, which is exported worldwide. The motor-racing Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, just south of the nearby village of Francorchamps, also hosts the annual Formula One Belgian Grand Prix and various endurance races such as the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. The world's first beauty pageant, the Concours de Beauté, was held in Spa on 19 September 1888. The town also hosted the Tour de France on 5 July 2010, when stage 2 of the race ended there. In 2021, Spa became part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
