Arthur De Cabooter

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Arthur De Cabooter Road cycling
Arthur De Cabooter (2011)
Arthur De Cabooter (2011)
To person
Nickname El Toro
Date of birth October 3, 1936
date of death May 26, 2012
nation Belgium
discipline Road cycling
End of career 1967
Team (s)
1957–1961
1962
1963–1964
1965–1966
1967
1968 		Groene Leeuw
Liberia
Solo
Wiel's
Groene Leeuw
Tibetan
Most important successes

1960 :

Tour of Flanders
Tour of Spain : 8th stage, 15th stage, points classification, 10th place overall classification
4th place Milan – Sanremo

1961 :

11th stage Tour of Spain
Last updated: July 22, 2018

Arthur "Tuur" De Cabooter , also Arthur Decabooter (born October 3, 1936 in Welden , †  May 26, 2012 in De Pinte ) was a Belgian racing cyclist .

1955 won Arthur Decabooter as Amateur , the British Racing Grand Prix of Essex and in the same year, the Tour of Flanders for amateurs. In 1958 he won the Tour of Flanders a second time, this time in the Independent class.

De Cabooter was a professional from 1959 to 1967 . As a real "Flanders" he drove and won numerous criteria in his home country. In 1960 he won the Flanders Tour of the Professionals and Across Flanders . In the same year he won the points classification of the Vuelta as well as the eighth and 15th stage and was tenth overall; at Milan – Sanremo he finished fourth. In 1961 he won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , the Grote Prijs Briek Schotte and the eleventh stage of the Vuelta a España . In 1964 he was first at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne , at Omloop van het Houtland and in 1965 at Nokere Koerse .

In 1966 Arthur De Cabooter won two stages of the Tour of Andalusia and one of the Four Days of Dunkirk . In 1962, 1963 and 1964 he also competed in the Tour de France , but never made it to Paris . In 1967 the racing driver, extremely popular in Flanders, ended his active cycling career in the Kuipke in front of 7,000 spectators. Up until old age he cycled at least 40 kilometers with friends every day; He died of a heart attack on such a bicycle tour along the Scheldt between Oudenaarde and Zingem .

Arthur De Cabooter was a brother-in-law of Walter Godefroot ; their wives are sisters.

literature

  • Jean-Marie Schepens / Luc Speybrouck: Arthur "El Toro" Decabooter - een Flandria uit de sixties . Gavere Committee. Dorp van den Ronde van Vlanderen 2007

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personal data
SURNAME De Cabooter, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decabooter, Arthur (different spelling); De Cabooter, Tuur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Welden
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2012
Place of death De Pinte