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1983 Tour Of Flanders
The 67th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 3 April 1983. Dutch rider Jan Raas claimed his second win in the ''monument'' race following a 20 km solo attack. His teammate Ludo Peeters won the sprint for second place at one-and-a-half minute.Vanwalleghem, Rik (1991), De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Pinguin, Belgium, , p 188 38 of 188 riders finished. Route The race started in Sint Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke Meerbeke is a village in the Denderstreek in the province of East Flanders in Belgium. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Ninove. This rural community is located along the Dender River on the western border of what is known as "Pajo ... ( Ninove) – covering 272 km. There were 12 categorized climbs: Results References External links Video of the 1983 Tour of Flanders on Sporza (in Dutch) Tour of Flanders 1983 in road cycling 1983 in Belgian sport 1983 Super Prestige Pernod {{TourofFlande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molenberg (Zwalm)
The Molenberg (Mill Hill) is a hill in the municipality of Zwalm, in the Belgian province of East Flanders, with its top at 56 m. It is the one of the many hills in the Zwalm region, just north of the Flemish Ardennes. The road of the Molenberg has a roughly-paved cobbled surface, which is classified and protected as a landscape monument. At the foot of the hill there is a 13th-century water mill, the ''Moldergemmolen'', from which the hill takes its name. Cycling The hill is best known from road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and ..., where it is a regular climb in the Flemish races in spring, most notably the Tour of Flanders. It is one of the most iconic climbs in the region, because of its steep slopes and narrow badly-surfaced cobbled road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporza
Sporza is a multimedia brand of Belgian public-service radio and television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ... network VRT specifically for coverage of sporting events. These broadcasts are organized by the Flemish government and mainly financed with tax money. Current rights Belgium International File:SPORZA-306x225.jpg, Sporza logo used from May 31, 2004 until 2012 External links * Sports divisions of TV channels Dutch-language radio stations in Belgium Radio stations established in 2004 2004 establishments in Belgium {{Europe-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Bogaert
Jan Bogaert (born 3 December 1957) is a Belgian former road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common .... Victories External links * 1957 births Living people Belgian male cyclists People from Temse Tour de Suisse stage winners Cyclists from East Flanders 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peugeot (cycling Team)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes. It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon. History Peugeot cycles started producing bicycles in 1882, and from then on it was involved in sponsoring cyclists. At the beginning of the century a Peugeot cycling team existed. Hippolyte Aucouturier rode Peugeot cycles when he won Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris in 1903, and when he was disqualified from the 1904 Tour de France in which he had finished fourth overall, for the illegal use of trains and cars. But the Peugeot team obtained success for the following four years in the Tour de France with Louis Trousselier, René Pottier and Lucien Petit-Breton. The Peugeot team finished second overall in the 1912 Giro d'Italia. The team would obtain two further victories in the Tour de France with Belgian Philippe Thys before the outbreak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Anderson (cyclist)
Philip Grant Anderson (born 20 March 1958) is a British-born Australian former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. Origins Phil Anderson was born in London but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was young. He grew up in the suburb of Kew and graduated from Trinity Grammar School in 1975. He first raced with Hawthorn Cycling Club, where Allan Peiper, another future professional, was also a member.Cycling Weekly, UK, 21 November 1992 Peiper said: "Phil went to a private school and joined the club with his mate, Peter Darbyshire. My best friend was Tom Sawyer, later a six-day racer in Europe, and we were the two rough nuts, while Phil and Darbs were the two upper-class boys". Amateur career Anderson won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Island in New Zealand and the Australian team time-trial championship at Brisbane in 1978. In that year he also won the Commonwealth Games road race in Edmonton, Alberta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Van Der Velde
Johan van der Velde (born 12 December 1956 in Rijsbergen) is a former Dutch cyclist. In the 1980 Tour de France, he won the young rider classification, also placing 12th in the general classification that year. He had been a racing cyclist for only a year. In the 1981 Tour de France, he took first place on the second and 21st stages, finishing 12th overall for the second year. He rode with TI–Raleigh in the Tour de France from 1979 to 1983 and the Panasonic team where he won Stage 5 and wore the Yellow Jersey for two days in the 1986 Tour de France. Decline He was distinctive in the peloton for his lean, long-legged appearance, his smooth pedalling style and his long hair. He rode in support of riders such as Joop Zoetemelk, whom he could pace over mountains at impressive speed, but he was also capable of winning on his own. Success came to him early and, he said in an interview with the author Jan Siebelink ("Pijn is genot") that he had trouble coping when that success began t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Pollentier
Michel Pollentier (born 13 February 1951 in Diksmuide, West Flanders) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He became professional in 1973. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1977 Giro d'Italia. Pollentier is one of just three Belgian riders to win the Giro, the others being Eddy Merckx and Johan de Muynck. In the 1978 Tour de France, he was the Belgian national champion when he won the stage arriving in Alpe d'Huez, took the yellow jersey and would have been involved in a battle with Joop Zoetemelk and eventual winner Bernard Hinault for the remainder of the race as the three were within +0:30 of one another. However, he was accused of foul play in the succeeding doping test, having used what was described politely as a pear-shaped tube (in fact a condom) of different urine held under the armpit and connected by a plastic tube to give the impression of urinating. Pollentier was uncovered after another rider at the test had trouble operating h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Haghedooren
Paul Haghedooren (11 October 1959 – 9 November 1997) was a Belgian cyclist. He rode in five editions of the Tour de France and two editions of the Vuelta a España. Career achievements Major results ;1979 : 3rd Circuit de Wallonie ;1980 : 1st Circuit de Wallonie : 3rd Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften ;1981 : 3rd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta : 6th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften ;1982 : 2nd GP de Fourmies : 2nd Overall Deutschland Tour : 3rd La Flèche Wallonne : 10th Giro dell'Emilia ;1983 : 2nd Tour du Hainaut Occidentale : 6th Tour of Flanders : 7th Overall Paris–Nice ;1984 : 3rd De Brabantse Pijl : 8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland : 10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1985 : 1st National Road Race Championships : 1st Grand Prix Cerami : 2nd Le Samyn : 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise : 4th GP Eddy Merckx : 7th Dwars door België : 9th De Brabantse Pijl : 9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1986 : 7th Circuit des Frontières ;1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Nulens
Guy Nulens (born 27 October 1957) is a Belgian former racing cyclist. He rode in nineteen Grand Tours between 1980 and 1994, fifteen of which were Tour de France starts. Major results ;1979 : 1st Overall Tour de Liège ::1st Stages 1 & 5 : 1st Trofeo Alcide Degasperi : 1st Stage 5 Étoile des Espoirs : 2nd Circuit de Wallonie : 3rd Flèche Ardennaise ;1981 : 9th Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 5 ;1983 : 5th Tour of Flanders ;1984 : 1st Stage 7a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Paris–Nice : 4th Binche–Tournai–Binche ;1985 : 1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges ::1st Stage 2 ;1986 : 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse ;1987 : 6th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1988 : 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie : 8th Overall Tour of Belgium ;1989 : 7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 9th Overall Tour de Trump ;1990 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Tour de France : 5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;1992 : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT) Tour de France ;1993 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Colijn
Luc Colijn (born 2 May 1958) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist. He rode in the 1981 Tour de France. He currently works as a directeur sportif for . He is the grandson of cyclist Achiel Buysse. Major results Road ;1978 : 1st Road race, National Military Road Championships : 2nd Military Road World Championships : 3rd Brussel–Opwijk ;1979 : 1st Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften : 5th Kattekoers ;1980 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie : 1st Coupe Egide Schoeters : 2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 3rd Grand Prix de Waregem ;1981 : 1st Petegem-aan-de-Leie : 2nd Leeuwse Pijl : 3rd Paris–Tours : 3rd Nationale Sluitingprijs : 8th De Brabantse Pijl : 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens ;1982 : 1st Nationale Sluitingprijs : 1st Berlare : 1st De Pinte : 1st GP Lanssens : 2nd Omloop van het Zuidwesten : 3rd Flèche Hesbignonne : 8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1983 : 1st Omloop van de Grensstreek : 1st Prix de Mellet : 2nd Le Samyn : 2nd Grand Prix de Peymeinade : 3rd Omloop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosberg
The Bosberg (English: ''Forest Hill'') is a hill in the Pajottenland in Belgium with its top located on the border of East Flanders and Flemish Brabant. The road leading to the top is surfaced in concrete in the lower parts and cobbled in the steep upper parts of the hill. The hill is almost completely forested with the Raspaillebos natural reserve. Cycling The Bosberg is best known from road bicycle racing. It was the final climb in the Tour of Flanders cycling race from 1973 to 2011. Edwig Van Hooydonck immortalized the climb by making decisive attacks on the Bosberg twice before soloing to the finish in 1989 and 1991. During its inclusion in the Tour of Flanders, it was addressed immediately after the Muur van Geraardsbergen The Muur van Geraardsbergen (English: ''Wall of Geraardsbergen/Grammont'', French: ''Mur de Grammont'') is a steep, narrow road with cobblestones in Geraardsbergen, Belgium. It is also known as Kapelmuur, Muur-Kapelmuur or simply Muur. The hil ..., wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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