André Dierickx

André Dierickx

To person
Date of birth	October 29, 1947
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
Driver type	sprinter
height	1.80 meters
Racing weight	74 kilograms
End of career	1981
Team (s)
1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976–1977 1978–1980 1981	Peugeot-BP-Michelin Flandria-Mars Watney-Avia Beaulieu-Flandria Flandria-Shimano-Carpenter Merlin-Plage-Shimano-Flandria Rokado Maes Pils-Rokado Ijsboerke-Warncke Safir-Ludo-Galli
Last updated: August 9, 2020

André Dierickx (born October 29, 1946 in Oudenaarde , East Flanders Province , Belgium ) is a former professional Belgian cyclist .

Career

As an amateur, he won the Tour of Flanders for amateurs in 1968. The period between 1970 and 1976 can be counted as the most successful period as a professional, because in addition to the two victories at La Flèche Wallonne in 1973 and 1975, the victory at the championship in Zurich in 1973 and some very good results at the Tour of Flanders , Paris-Roubaix and Liège – Bastogne – Liège fall into this period. In 1981 he resigned from professional cycling .

Successes (selection)

1968

• Tour of Flanders (amateurs)

1969

• a stage Tour de Romandie

1970

• Nokere Koerse
• Grand Prix Pino Cerami
• one stage Grand Prix Midi Libre
• Omloop of the Vlaamse Gewesten

1971

• two stages of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
• Grand Prix de Denain
• Overall ranking and a stage Tour de Luxembourg
• Overall ranking and a stage Tour de Picardie
• Omloop van het Houtland

1972

• a Paris-Nice stage
• a stage tour of Belgium

1973

• La Flèche Wallonne
• Championship of Zurich

1974

• Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
• Memorial Le Samyn

1975

• one stage Tour du Loir-et-Cher
• Grand Prix de Wallonie
• Grand Prize of the Canton of Aargau
• La Flèche Wallonne

1976

• Union Dortmund Grand Prize

1977

• a stage of the Étoile de Bessèges
• Leeuwse Pijl

1978

• Overall ranking Tour of Belgium

1979

• one stage Tour de Suisse
• Omloop van West Brabant

1981

• Grote Prijs Briek Schotte

Placements

Monuments

Monuments	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981
Milan-San Remo	23	59	12	8th	51	26th	57	-	115	14th	-	48	-
Tour of Flanders	-	16	-	2	-	-	15th	10	-	-	-	-	30th
Paris-Roubaix	-	4th	-	2	-	6th	3	-	18th	-	-	-	-
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	-	-	-	17th	5	15th	2	-	-	-	-	-
Lombardy tour	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	19th	-	-	-	-	-

classic

classic	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	-	3	29	2	11	21st	7th	16	21st	4th	-	-	-
Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-
Paris-Brussels	-	-	-	-	11	4th	3	16	5	6th	2	-	-
E3 Harelbeke	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gent-Wevelgem	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	9	6th	-	25th	-	-
Amstel Gold Race	-	3	-	6th	-	-	4th	-	29	15th	-	-	-
La Flèche Wallonne	-	9	-	-	1	9	1	8th	15th	24	45	-	-
Paris tours	-	-	-	60	47	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Championship of Zurich	-	3	-		1	7th	8th	-	5	47	-	-	-

Grand Tours

Grand Tour	1972	1973	1974	1979
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-
Giro d'Italia	-	40	-	-
Tour de France	DNF		55	DNF

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

World championships

World Championship	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978
Road racing	42	DNF	-	-	20th	-	-	9
Individual time trial
Team time trial

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Olympic Summer Games

Mexico 1968 : 19.

Legend: DNF = Did not finish (tour given up or taken out of the race due to timeout) ; - = Did not compete (did not participate) ; DQ = Disqualified (disqualified due to rule violation or doping)

Web links

• André Dierickx in the Radsportseiten.net database
• André Dierickx in the ProCyclingStats.com database

• André Dierickx on www.cyclebase.nl
• André Dierickx on memoire-du-cyclisme.eu