Daniel Willems (16 August 1956 – 2 September 2016)Ex-Tourritwinnaar Daniel Willems overleden
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'', 3 September 2016 was a Belgian

road bicycle racer 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 ...

. Health problems ended his career in 1986. He competed in the

team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

event at the

1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi ...

Major results

;1976 : 5th Overall

Ruban Granitier Breton Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, also known as the Tour de Bretagne trophée des granitiers and formerly known as Ruban Granitier Breton, is an annual early season professional cycling stage race held in late April and early May in Brittany, France. T ...

;1977 : 1st MaillotBélgica

Road race, National Amateur Road Championships : 1st Jersey green-whitebar

Overall

::1st Stages 1a & 4a (

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) : 4th Flèche Ardennaise : 6th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften ;1978 : 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem : 1st Circuit du Hainaut : 2nd Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften : 3rd Kattekoers : 7th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1979 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

::1st Stage 4b : 1st Jersey blue

Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 4b : 1st Scheldeprijs : 1st Brabantse Pijl : 1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 2nd Critérium des As : 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland : 3rd Tour of Flanders : 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 4th

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, ...

: 4th

Circuit des Frontières The Circuit des Frontières was a one-day road cycling Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling in which cyclists ride on paved roadways. It includes recreational, racing, commuting, and utility cycling. As users of the road, road ...

: 5th Overall

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlookin ...

: 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne : 6th Gent–Wevelgem : 6th Züri-Metzgete : 8th

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...

: 9th Circuit du Hainaut ;1980 : 1st Jersey red

Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ::1st Stages 3 & 5a : 1st

: 1st Ronde van Limburg : 1st Grand Prix Le Télégramme : 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx : 4th Rund um den Henninger-Turm : 5th Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Jersey white

Combination classification ::1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (

) : 5th Züri-Metzgete : 7th Paris–Roubaix : 7th Amstel Gold Race : 8th Circuit du Hainaut : 9th Overall Tour de Romandie : 9th Tour du Haut Var ;1981 : 1st La Flèche Wallonne : 1st Critérium des As : 1st Heistse Pijl : Tour de France ::1st Stages 11 & 19 : 1st Stage 3 GP du Midi-Libre : 1st Stage 1a Tour of Belgium : 3rd Züri-Metzgete : 3rd Rund um den Henninger-Turm : 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx : 5th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme ::1st Stages 1, 4 & 5 : 6th Overall Tour de l'Aude ::1st Stage 3 : 6th Trofeo Laigueglia : 10th Road race, National Road Championships : 10th Tour of Flanders ;1982 : 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx : Tour Midi-Pyrénées ::1st Stages 1a & 2 : 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Le Samyn : 3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen : 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 7th Overall Tour de France ::1st Stages 3 & 20 : 7th Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 7th Brabantse Pijl : 8th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Overall Tour de l'Aude ;1983 : 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for Daniel Willems
{{DEFAULTSORT:Willems, Daniel 1956 births 2016 deaths Belgian male cyclists Belgian Tour de France stage winners People from Herentals Tour de Suisse stage winners Olympic cyclists of Belgium Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Antwerp Province