José De Cauwer (born 25 September 1949) is a Belgian former professional

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and team manager. De Cauwer rode in five editions of the

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. De Cauwer won one stage in the

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after which he held the red jersey for three days. He also won a stage in the 1978

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. With

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he won the team time trials of stage 5a of the

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and stage 4 of the

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. De Cauwer is known for being the super domestique of

Hennie Kuiper Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic Road bicycle racing, road race at 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich in 1972, becoming world ...

. After ending his cycling career, De Cauwer was team manager of ADR; the ADR won the

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and

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in 1988, and with which

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won the

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. In 1997 he became team manager of the Belgian national cycling team. He retired as national team manager in 2005 after

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's win in Madrid. Until the end of 2008 he was manager of the youth education of Silence–Lotto. De Cauwer is co-commentator for cycling races on the public broadcaster VRT.

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* 1949 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Sportspeople from Temse Cyclists from East Flanders Cycling announcers 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1940s-stub