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1969 Dwars Door België
The 1969 Dwars door België was the 25th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 25 March 1969. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Eric Leman. General classification References 1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ... 1969 in road cycling 1969 in Belgian sport {{Belgium-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOERS Museum
KOERS. Museum van de wielersport. (until 2018 the Cycling Museum - WieMu) is a museum in the Belgian city of Roeselare. The museum shows the history of the bicycle and cycling. It was officially opened on 27 March 1998 at the ''Polenplein''. History The Cycling Museum was founded in 1985 as part of the earlier Municipal Museum of Roeselare. The city of Roeselare took that decision because the region can be seen as ‘the cradle of the ''flandriens''’. A lot of flandriens and racing cyclists are born in the region. The municipality proper has known a lot of successful racing cyclists for example Odile Defraye, Odiel Defraeye, the first Belgian winner of the Tour de France, Tour of France and several UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, world-champions: Jean-Pierre Monseré, Benoni Beheyt, Patrick Sercu and Freddy Maertens. In the beginning, the museum only showed a few old bicycles and organized an exhibition in summer. Replacement In 1998, they made the final dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Leman
Eric Leman (born 17 July 1946) is a former professional road racing cyclist from West Flanders, Belgium. He won the prestigious Tour of Flanders three times.LaroussTour des Flandres " Les Belges Achille Bruyne, Éric Leman, Johan Museeuw, Tom Boonen et l'Italien Fiorenzo Magni figurent, avec trois victoires chacun, en tête du palmarès de cette classique créée en 1913 et traditionnellement organisé le premier dimanche d'avril. " Major results ;1968 :1st, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne :1st, Porto–Lisboa :1st, Stage 2, Four Days of Dunkirk :1st, Stage 21, Tour de France ;1969 :1st, Dwars door Vlaanderen :1st, Stage 3, Paris–Nice :1st, Stages 1, 2, 5 and 7, Vuelta a Andalucía :1st, Stage 3, Tour de France ;1970 :1st, GP Briek Schotte :1st, Tour of Flanders :1st, Stage 4, Paris–Nice :1st, Stage 1 and 3b, Vuelta a Andalucía :1st, Prologue, Tour of Belgium ;1971 :1st, Gullegem Koerse :1st, Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen :1st, Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen :1st, Omloop Mandel- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Van Vlierberghe
Albert Van Vlierberghe (18 March 1942 – 20 December 1991) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Van Vlierberghe won three stages in the Tour de France, and three stages in the Giro d'Italia. He also competed in the team time trial and the team pursuit events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. In his 1999 book, ''Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling, the True Story,'' Belgian sports physiotherapist Willy Voet described an incident involving Van Vlierberghe that occurred during the 1979 Deutschland Tour. Voet, then the ''soigneur'' with Van Vlierberghe's team, Flandria, claims that Van Vlierberghe, "a decent Belgian racer but with no taste for the hills," asked Voet to drive him ahead of his fellow racers to avoid a six-mile stretch of hill in the course. Voet claims that Van Vlierberghe slipped back into the race without being detected and went on to place sixth on the stage. Voet used the incident to defend his assertion that for many professional riders at the time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Van Neste
Willy Van Neste (born 10 March 1944) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer who competed as a professional from 1966 to 1976. He participated in seven editions of the Tour de France, where he won a stage in the 1967 Tour de France and wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for the following day. Other career highlights include winning the Four Days of Dunkirk in 1970, the Züri-Metzgete in 1972 and Grand Prix de Fourmies in 1967. He also finished second in the 1968 Gent–Wevelgem and the 1970 Amstel Gold Race. Major results ;1965 :Tour de Namur ;1966 :Flèche Ardennaise :Wavre – Liège ;1967 :Arras :Lokeren Criterium :Wieze :Zwevezele :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 2 ::Wearing yellow jersey The general classification of the Tour de France is the most important classification of the race and determines the winner of the race. Since 1919, the leader of the general classification has worn the yellow jersey ( ). History For the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Dwars Door België
The 1968 Dwars door België was the 24th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 24 March 1968. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Walter Godefroot. General classification References 1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ... 1968 in road cycling 1968 in Belgian sport {{Belgium-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Dwars Door België
The 1970 Dwars door België was the 26th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 22 March 1970. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Daniel Van Ryckeghem. General classification References 1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ... 1970 in road cycling 1970 in Belgian sport {{Belgium-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwars Door Vlaanderen
''Dwars door Vlaanderen'' ('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 World Tour. Held in late March, the event is part of the '' Flemish Cycling Week'', which also includes E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders. Traditionally Dwars door Vlaanderen was held four days after Milan–San Remo and a week and a half before the Tour of Flanders. As from 2018, the race moved up one week on the international calendar and is now contested on the Wednesday before the Tour of Flanders, Flanders's foremost cycling classic, held on Sunday. Since 2012, a women's edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen is held on the same day as the men's race, starting and finishing on the same location, over a shorter distance. From 2023, this event joined the UCI Women's ProSeries calendar, the second tier of women's races. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waregem
Waregem (; ), spelled Waereghem before, is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality lies in the valley of the river Lys, between Kortrijk and Ghent. It is part of the administrative district of Kortrijk and comprises the towns of Beveren, Desselgem, Sint-Eloois-Vijve and Waregem proper. On January 1, 2024, Waregem had a total population of 39,970. The total area is 44.34 km² which gives a population density of 901 inhabitants per km². History Origins The first inhabitants of this forested region settled along the Leie well before Roman times. Bronze coins and artifacts associated with the Gallo-Roman culture show extensive activity in this area in the first centuries of our era. This is not surprising given the fact that Sint-Eloois-Vijve stood at the intersection of two important Roman roads: Cassel-Tongeren and Bavai- Oudenburg. The name of the current municipality refers to a certain “Waro” clan or tribe, po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wim Du Bois
Wim is a Dutch masculine given name or a shortened form of Willem and may refer to: * Wim Anderiesen (1903–1944), Dutch footballer * Wim Aantjes (1923–2015), Dutch politician * Wim Arras (born 1964), Flemish Belgian cyclist * Wim Blockmans (born 1945), Flemish Belgian Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University * Wim Boost (1918–2005), Dutch cartoonist * Wim Boissevain (1927–2023), Australian painter of Dutch descent * Wim Botha (born 1974), South African contemporary artist * Wim Cohen (1923–2000), Dutch mathematician * Wim Crouwel (1928–2019), Dutch graphic designer and typographer * Wim Crusio (born 1954), Dutch behavioral neurogeneticist * Wim De Coninck (born 1959), retired Flemish Belgian footballer * Wim De Decker (born 1982), Flemish Belgian football player * Wim De Vocht (born 1982), Flemish Belgian professional road bicycle racer * Wim Deetman (born 1945), Dutch politician and statesman * Wim Delvoye (born 1965), Flemish Belgian conceptual artist * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Godefroot
Walter Godefroot (born 2 July 1943) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of , later known as T-Mobile Team. As amateur cyclist, he won the bronze medal in the individual road race of the 1964 Summer Olympics after his young compatriot Eddy Merckx was caught in the final. Both men turned professional in 1965 and Walter Godefroot was presented as Merckx's bane in his early days, winning several races ahead of him: the Belgian championship in 1965, Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1967) and Paris–Roubaix (1969). But Godefroot eventually didn't have Merckx's abilities in stage races and concentrated on the separate stages in the grand tours. He won ten stages in the Tour de France, including the stage on the Champs-Élysées in 1975 where the Tour finished for the first time, and the green jersey in the 1970 Tour de France, one stage in the 1970 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 1971 Vuelta a España. Being a specialist in one-day c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Boever
Jaak De Boever (born 29 August 1937) is a Belgian former professional bicycle racing, racing cyclist. He won the 1968 Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke, 1968 E3 Harelbeke. Major results ;1961 : 1st Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt : 1st Omloop der Zuid-West-Vlaamse Bergen ;1962 : 1st Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt : 1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen ;1963 : 2nd Omloop van het Leiedal : 2nd Ronde van Oost-Vlaanderen : 2nd Antwerpen - Ougrée ;1964 : 1st Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt : 1st Omloop van Midden-Vlaanderen : 1st Stage 2b Dwars door Vlaanderen : 3rd Circuit des Frontières ;1965 : 1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen :1st : 1st Stage 2b Tour du Nord : 2nd Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt : 2nd Omloop van het Houtland ;1966 :1st : 1st Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt : 1st Nokere Koerse : 3rd Overall Tour du Nord : 3rd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde : 3rd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint : 6th Grand Prix Cerami ;1967 : 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde : 2nd Nokere Koerse : 3rd Ronde van Oost-Vlaanderen : 5th Overall 1967 Paris–Nice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Boucquet
Walter Boucquet (11 May 1941 in Meulebeke – 10 February 2018 in Ingelmunster) was a Belgian cyclist. Major results ;1963 :1st Stage 3 Tour du Nord :2nd Overall :3rd Grand Prix des Nations :3rd Trofeo Baracchi :3rd :3rd Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt ;1964 :1st Stage 12 1964 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia :1st Brussels–Ingooigem :1st Grand Prix des Nations :1st Stage 6 Volta a Portugal :2nd ;1965 :1st Tielt–Antwerpen–Tielt :1st GP de Belgique :1st :4th overall Tour de Suisse ;1966 :1st Stage 2a Four Days of Dunkirk :1st Omloop van het Houtland :1st GP de Belgique :2nd ;1967 :3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1968 :1st Overall Tour de l'Oise :1st Omloop van het Houtland :1st GP Roeselare :1st Sint Martens-Lierde :1st ;1969 :1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre ;1970 :1st Bruxelles–Meulebeke :3rd Omloop Midden-Vlaanderen Source: References 1941 births 2018 deaths Belgian male cyclists People from Meulebeke Cyclists from West Flanders 20th-century Belgian sportsmen { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
