Willy Planckaert (born 5 April 1944 in

Nevele Nevele () is a village and former municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Hansbeke, Landegem, Merendree, Nevele proper, Poesele and Vosselare. In 2018, the municipality of Nevel ...

) is a

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former road bicycle racer. His brothers,

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and

Walter Planckaert Walter Planckaert (born 8 April 1948 in Nevele) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist. He is the younger brother of Willy Planckaert, the older brother of Eddy Planckaert, and the uncle of Jo Planckaert. He had 74 victories in his ...

, as well as his son

Jo Planckaert Jo Planckaert (born 16 December 1970 in Deinze) is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He is the son of former professional road bicycle racer Willy Planckaert, brother of famous road bicycle racers Eddy and Walter Planckaert. ...

, are also former professional road bicycle racers.Cycling Dynasty Stays the Pace
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Major results

;1965 :1st, Brussels-Charleroi-Brussels :1st, Stage 1, Paris–Luxembourg ;1966 : Jersey green

Points classification,

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 ...

::1st, Stages 4 and 8 :1st, Stage 2,

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), th ...

;1967 :1st,

Grand Prix Pino Cerami Grand Prix Pino Cerami is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Hainaut, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Giuseppe 'Pino' Cerami, after whom the race is named, is a former Belg ...

:1st, Stages 5, 9 and 22b, Giro d'Italia ;1969 :1st, Stage 1,

Tour de l'Oise The Tour de Picardie was a professional stage race, multi-stage road bicycle racing, cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy, France. In its last twelve editions, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The ...

;1970 :1st, Stage 3b,

;1973 :1st, Stage 1,

:1st, Stage 3, Four Days of Dunkirk ;1974 :1st, Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden :1st,

Omloop van het Houtland Omloop van het Houtland ("Circuit of Houtland") is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Lichtervelde in the region of West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2007, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2002 it was hel ...

:1st, Stage 4,

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne ( Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages ...

;1976 :1st,

Dwars door Vlaanderen Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI ...

:1st, Stage 1a, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :1st, Stage 5b, Four Days of Dunkirk ;1977 :1st, Overall,

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a ...

:1st, Stage 2, Four Days of Dunkirk

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Living people Belgian male cyclists Belgian Tour de France stage winners Belgian Giro d'Italia stage winners 1944 births Cyclists from East Flanders People from Nevele {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1940s-stub

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