The 47th Tour of Flanders
cycling classic
The classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional road cycling races in the international calendar. Some of these events date back to the 19th century. They are normally held at roughly the same time each year. The five most ...
was held on Sunday, 31 March 1963. It was won by Belgian
Noël Foré
Noël Foré (23 December 1932 – 16 February 1994) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. His greatest victories were Paris–Roubaix in 1959 and the Tour of Flanders in 1963.
Palmarès
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in a three-man sprint with
Frans Melckenbeeck and
Tom Simpson
Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager b ...
.
[Vanwalleghem, Rik (1991), De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Pinguin, Belgium, , p 140] Foré set a new record speed average of . 35 of 127 riders finished.
Route
The race started in
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 ...
and finished in
Gentbrugge
Gentbrugge is one of 25 districts ("wijken") of the city of Ghent, Belgium in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Gentbrugge together with Oud Gentbrugge had been a separate municipality before 1 January 1977, when it fused with Ghent.
Neighborhoods ...
– covering . There were six categorized climbs:
Results
References
External links
Video of the 1963 Tour of Flanders on
Sporza
Sporza is a multimedia brand of Belgian public-service radio and television
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(in Dutch)
Tour of Flanders
1963 in road cycling
1963 in Belgian sport
1963 Super Prestige Pernod
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