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1964 La Flèche Wallonne
The 1964 La Flèche Wallonne was the 28th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 4 May 1964. The race started in Liège and finished in Charleroi. The race was won by Gilbert Desmet of the Wiel's team. General classification References 1964 in road cycling 1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ... 1964 in Belgian sport 1964 Super Prestige Pernod {{La Flèche Wallonne-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Desmet
Gilbert Desmet (2 February 1931 – 30 June 2024), nicknamed ''Smetje van Lichtervelde'', was a Belgian cyclist who was professional from 1952 to 1967. In the 1956 Tour de France, he wore the yellow jersey for two days, and in the 1963 Tour de France he wore it for nine days. Desmet won 101 professional races, including Paris–Tours, La Flèche Wallonne and Four Days of Dunkirk. His best result in the Tour de France was his 4th place in 1962. He finished second in the 1959 Paris–Roubaix. In total, Desmet won 101 professional races. Throughout his career, he was often confused with Gilbert De Smet, another Belgian cyclist with a similar name. Desmet died on 30 June 2024, at the age of 93. Major results ;1951 : 2nd Kattekoers ;1954 : 1st GP Stad Zottegem : 8th Omloop Het Volk ;1955 : 1st Textielprijs Vichte ;1956 : Tour de France ::Held after Stages 3–4a : 1st Overall Drielandentrofee ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen : 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vito Taccone
Vito Taccone (6 May 1940 – 15 October 2007) was an Italian road cyclist. Taccone made his professional debut in 1961. In the same year he won the Giro di Lombardia. During the 1964 Tour de France, he was accused of causing other cyclists to fall , leading to a fight with Spanish racer Fernando Manzaneque and his non-appearance in following tours. His other victories include one Giro del Piemonte (1962), one Giro di Toscana, Giro della Toscana (1963), one Milano–Torino (1965) and five stages overall at the 1963 Giro d'Italia. In June 2007, he was arrested and charged with selling counterfeit and stolen clothing. References External links ''La Stampa'' obituary (Italian) * 1940 births 2007 deaths People from Avezzano Italian male cyclists Tour de Suisse stage winners Cyclists from Abruzzo Sportspeople from the Province of L'Aquila 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-cycling-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Road Cycling
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. * January 28 – A U.S. Air Force j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Junkermann (cyclist)
Hans "Hennes" Junkermann (6 May 1934 – 11 April 2022) was a German professional racing cyclist who won 35 road races in 18 seasons from 1956 to 1973. He won the German National Road Race in 1959, 1960, and 1961. Biography Junkermann was born in St. Tönis, near Krefeld, Rhine Province. He excelled in mountainous stage races and hard one-day events. He won nine Six Day races and the European Madison championship in 1965. He rode the Tour de France eight times. Junkermann showed class as an amateur and was approached twice in 1954 to defect to the GDR and become a paid amateur, but he wanted to stay in West Germany and be a professional. He turned professional in 1955 season for the small Bauer team. In May 1957 he won Züri-Metzgete, followed by fourth in the Tour de Suisse, the start of his excellent record in the Swiss tour, a hilly stage race. In 1959 he moved to Faema-Molteni under Rik Van Looy, winning the national road championship, a feat he repeated in 1960 and 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Mahé
François Mahé (September 2, 1930 – May 31, 2015) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1950 to 1965. Highlights from his career include one day in the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in the 1953 Tour de France, a stage win in 1954 Tour de France as well as a stage win in Vuelta a España, Paris–Nice, Tour de Luxembourg and the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and coming second in the 1952 edition of the GP Ouest-France and the 1954 edition of Tour of Flanders. Major results ;1953 :Tour de France: ::Wearing yellow jersey for one day ::10th place overall classification ;1954 :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 21A ;1955 :Malansec :Tour de France: ::10th place overall classification ;1958 :Querrien ;1959 :Bain-de-Bretagne :Tour de France: ::5th place overall classification ;1960 :Brest :Camors :Chauffailles :Ploudalmezeau ;1961 :Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; ) is an annual stage race, multi-stage bicycle raci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bas Maliepaard
Bastiaan Maliepaard (3 April 1938 – 11 July 2024) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1959 and 1967. He won the Dutch national road race champion in 1960 and 1961, as well as the winner of the points classification at the 1963 Vuelta a España. Maliepaard died from a cardiac arrest on 11 July 2024, at the age of 86. Major results ;1959 : 1st Ronde van Overijssel : 1st Stage 5b Olympia's Tour : 2nd Road race, UCI World Amateur Championships ;1960 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Ronde van Brabant : 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1961 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Jean-Claude Lebaube) : 7th Paris–Roubaix : 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk : 9th Omloop Het Volk ;1962 : 1st Stage 3a Four Days of Dunkirk : 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Oise : 5th Overall Paris–Nice ::1st Stage 3a ( TTT) : 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 9th Overall Eibarko Bizikleta : 10th Overall Vuelta a Levante ::1st Stage 5 : 10th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théo Nys
Theo is a given name and a hypocorism. Greek origin Many names beginning with the root ''Theo-'' derive from the Ancient Greek word (), which means God, for example: *Feminine names: Thea, Theodora, Theodosia, Theophania, Theophano and Theoxena *Masculine names: Theodore, Theodoros/Theodorus, Theodosius, Theodotus, Theophanes, Theophilus, Theodoret and Theophylact Germanic origin Many other names beginning with "Theo-" do not necessarily derive from Greek, but rather the old Germanic "theud", meaning "people" or "folk". These names include: *Theobald, Theodahad, Theodard, Theodebert, Theodemir, and Theodoric People with the name Theo See Theo and Théo for a current alphabetical list of all people with the first name Theo or Théo in the English Wikipedia. Among better known people with this name are: *Theo Adam (1926–2019), German classical bass-baritone *Theo Albrecht (1922–2010), German entrepreneur and billionaire *Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012), Greek film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Altig
Rudi Altig (; 18 March 1937 – 11 June 2016) was a German professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator. Amateur career Rudi Altig was born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany, an area which had produced good track riders.Sporting Cyclist, UK, December 1966 He began racing in 1952, following his older brother, Willi. The brothers teamed for madison and other two-man races, becoming the best in the country. The British promoter, Jim Wallace, booked Altig to ride with Hans Jaroszewicz at a meeting on Herne Hill velodrome in Good Friday in 1956. He said: What a pair they made! They just about slaughtered a top-class field of international riders, with all our best home lads. Only Michel Rousseau, later that year to become world sprint champion, was able to take a points sprint from them. That was in the first sprint, too; thereafter the German pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Noyelle
André Noyelle (29 November 1931 – 4 February 2003) was a road racing cyclist from Belgium. He won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. At the same tournament he also claimed the title in the men's team road race, alongside Robert Grondelaers and Lucien Victor. He was a professional rider from 1953 to 1966. Major results ;1952 : 1st Road race, Olympic Games : 1st Team road race, Olympic Games (with Robert Grondelaers and Lucien Victor) : 1st National military road race championships : 2nd Amateur road race, World Road Championships ;1953 : 3rd Omloop van het Houtland ;1955 : 1st Stage 1A Trois Jours d'Anvers : 1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Ouest : 2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 4th Gent–Wevelgem ;1957 : 1st Elfstedenronde : 2nd Gent–Wevelgem : 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen ;1958 : 3rd Brussels–Ingooigem : 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 10th Gent–Wevelgem ;1959 : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 2nd Kampioen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Janssen
Johannes Adrianus "Jan" Janssen (born 19 May 1940) is a Dutch former professional cyclist. He was UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, world champion and winner of the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, the first Dutch rider to win either. He rode the Tour de France eight times and finished all but the first time. He won seven stages and wore the yellow jersey for two days (after stage 16 in 1966 Tour de France, 1966 and after stage 22B in 1968 Tour de France, 1968). He was easily spotted in the peloton because of his blond hair and his glasses. As of the death of Federico Bahamontes in August 2023, he is the oldest surviving winner of the Tour de France, but not the most ancient winner: Lucien Aimar won in 1966. Early life Janssen was born at Nootdorp, a small town near The Hague and Delft, just five days after the Netherlands surrendered to the Nazis. He later moved to Putte (Netherlands), Putte, a village on the Belgium, Belgian border between Roosendaal an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groene Leeuw (cycling Team) second.
Groene Leeuw (English: Green Lion) was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed from 1945 to 1969. Its main sponsor was Belgian bicycle manufacturer Groene Leeuw. Among the various co-sponsors was the Belgian beer Wiel's. In the 1960 Vuelta a España, the team finished with the top two placings in the general classification of the 1960 Vuelta a España, with Frans De Mulder first and Armand Desmet Armand Desmet (23 January 1931 – 17 November 2012) nieuwsblad.be Details of death ... References External links Cycling teams based in Belgium Defunct cyc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charleroi
Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not far from the border with France. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.Statistics Belgium; ''Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier 2008'' (excel-file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of 1 January 2008. Retrieved on 19 October 2008. The , including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
