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Week-end Ardennais
The Ardennes Weekend was an overall points classification based on the results of two Belgian classic cycling races: La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. It was created in 1950, and included, only that year, a third race, Liège-Courcelles. This classification first existed until 1964. It disappeared when the Flèche Wallonne became independent: from 1965 onwards, it was no longer held on the same weekend as Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but three days before. In 1993, Amaury Sport Organisation bought La Flèche Wallonne, three years after acquiring Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Consequently, the Ardennes Weekend was recreated, from 1993 to 1997. Jan Storms and Rolf Wolfshohl Rolf Wolfshohl (born 27 December 1938) is a former professional road bicycle racing and cyclo-cross racing cyclist from Germany. Wolfshohl is best known in cyclo-cross for winning the world championship three times, and in road racing for winni ... won the Ardennes weekend while they have never won e ...
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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 spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As w ...
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Marcel Ernzer
Marcel Ernzer (23 March 1926 – 1 April 2003) was a Luxembourgian cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1949 :3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg :9th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1950 :2nd Chanteloup-les-Vignes :8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;1951 :1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st Stage 3a :1st Overall Circuit des Six Provinces ;1953 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships :6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg :6th GP du Midi-Libre :10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;1954 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships :1st Liège-Bastogne-Liège :1st Weekend Ardennais :3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st Stage 2a :5th La Flèche Wallonne ;1955 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships :1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse :2nd Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 2 :2nd Overall Tour de Picardie :2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg :7th Liège-Bastogne-Liège ;1956 :4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;1957 ...
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Marcel Rohrbach
Marcel Rohrbach (8 April 1933 Ahun – 14 March 2012; Vélizy-Villacoublay) was a French racing cyclist. He finished in ninth place at the 1960 Tour de France The 1960 Tour de France was the 47th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 26 June and 17 July, with 21 stages covering a distance of . The race featured 128 riders, of which 81 finished. Because Ja .... References External links * 1933 births 2012 deaths French male cyclists Sportspeople from Creuse French Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-cycling-bio-1930s-stub ...
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Armand Desmet
Armand Desmet (23 January 1931 – 17 November 2012) nieuwsblad.be
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was a professional road bicycle racer. Desmet was born in , and competed professionally between 1955 and 1967. He was the first winner of the and

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Rik Van Looy
Henri "Rik" Van Looy (born 20 December 1933 in Grobbendonk) is a Belgian former professional cycle sport, cyclist of the post-World War II, war period, nicknamed the ''King of the Classics'' or ''Emperor of Herentals'' (after the small Belgian city where he lived). He was twice World Cycling Championship, world professional road race champion, and was the first cyclist to win all five 'Monuments': the most prestigious one-day Classic cycle races, classics â€“ a feat since achieved by just two others (both also Belgians: Roger De Vlaeminck and Eddy Merckx). With 379 road victories he's second to Merckx only. He is ninth on the Grand Tour (cycling)#Grand Tour stage wins, all-time list of Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour stage winners with thirty-seven victories. Career Van Looy rose to prominence when he won the Belgian amateur road championship in 1952. He repeated the victory the following year, adding third place in the world title race the same year, before turning profe ...
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Albertus Geldermans
Albertus "Ab" Geldermans (born 17 March 1935, in Beverwijk) is a former Dutch professional road bicycle racer and directeur sportif. He was professional from 1959 to 1966 and rode seven editions of the Tour de France. In 1962 he finished fifth overall and wore the yellow jersey for two days. In 1960 Geldermans won Liège–Bastogne–Liège and won the Deutschland Tour. In 1962 he was Dutch road race champion. Afterwards he became directeur sportif of the Dutch national cycling team that competed in the 1967 Tour de France and directed Jan Janssen to victory in the 1967 Tour de France. Major results ;1957 :Ronde van Gouda :Ronde van het IJsselmeer :Ronde van Zuid-Holland ;1958 :Noordwijkerhout ;1959 :Beverwijk :Merelbeke :Merksem :Wielsbeke ;1960 :Deutschland Tour :Weekend Ardennais :Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1961 :Menton-Roma :Millau : Four Days of Dunkirk ;1962 : Dutch National Road Race Championship : national time trial champion :Tour de France: ::5th place overall clas ...
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Frans De Mulder
Frans De Mulder (17 December 1937 in Kruishoutem – 5 March 2001 in Deinze) was a professional road racing cyclist from Belgium between 1958 and 1963. De Mulder is most famous for winning the overall title and four stages the 1960 Vuelta a España. He bested fellow countryman Armand Desmet and Spaniard Miguel Pacheco across 3566 km in 17 stages. Major results Source: ;1959 : 1st Stage 5a Tour de l'Ouest : 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 4th Milan–San Remo : 4th Brussels–Ingooigem : 7th Paris–Roubaix : 7th La Flèche Wallonne ;1960 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 4, 7, 16 & 17a : 2nd Gent–Wevelgem : 3rd Omloop van het Houtland : 5th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke : 6th Tour of Flanders : 6th Dwars door België : 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st Stage 4 : 7th Milan–San Remo : 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 10th Brussels–Ingooigem ;1961 : 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 8th Kuurn ...
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Pierre Everaert
Pierre Everaert (21 December 1933 – 26 May 1989) was a French professional racing cyclist between the years 1955 and 1966. He rode in eight editions of the Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ..., with a highest general classification of 32nd and a best stage finish of second, both in the 1960 edition. References External links * 1933 births 1989 deaths French male cyclists Sportspeople from Nord (French department) Cyclists from Hauts-de-France 20th-century French people {{France-cycling-bio-1930s-stub ...
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Alfred De Bruyne
Alfred De Bruyne (21 October 1930 – 4 February 1994) was a Belgian champion road cyclist. He won six Tour de France stages early in his career and went on to win many other Monuments and stage races. He had a great deal of success early in his career during the Tour de France. 1953 was his first Tour, his best result was making one stage podium, on stage 5 from Dieppe to Caen. In 1954 he finished 2nd on the final stage into Paris and won three stages along the way. In 1955 he didn't win any stages, but ended up with the highest overall classification he would ever have which was 17th. In 1956 he won three stages in the first half of the Tour, but slowed a bit in the second half and couldn't add to this total. Also in 1956 he won Milan–San Remo and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, as well as the stage race Paris–Nice early in the season. In 1957 he abandoned the Tour for the first time in his career. He won both Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Tours that year. In 1958 he rode th ...
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Joseph Planckaert
Joseph "Jef" Planckaert (4 May 1934 – 22 May 2007Décès de Joseph Planckaert
rtbf.be. 22 May 2007 ) was a . He is seen as one of the best Belgian cyclists of the 1950s and 1960s. His best season was 1962, when on the he became Belgian champion, won
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Sante Ranucci
Sante Ranucci (31 October 1933 – 20 May 2023) was an Italian cyclist who won the amateur road race at the 1955 UCI Road World Championships. After that, he competed as a professional until 1964. In 1958, he finished second in the Giro del Lazio. Ranucci died in Scandicci Scandicci () is a ''comune'' (municipality) of c. 50,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence. Scandicci borders the following municipalities: Campi Bisenzio, Flore ... on 20 May 2023, at the age of 89. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ranucci, Sante 1933 births 2023 deaths Italian male cyclists Sportspeople from the Province of Viterbo Cyclists from Lazio ...
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André Vlayen
André Vlayen (17 March 1931 – 20 February 2017) was a Belgian racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing .... He won the Belgian national road race title in 1956 and 1957. References External links * 1931 births 2017 deaths Belgian male cyclists Cyclists from Antwerp Province People from Herselt {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1930s-stub ...
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