Arthur De Cabooter
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Arthur De Cabooter (2011) | |
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Nickname | El Toro |
Date of birth | October 3, 1936 |
date of death | May 26, 2012 |
nation | Belgium |
discipline | Road cycling |
End of career | 1967 |
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1957–1961 1962 1963–1964 1965–1966 1967 1968 |
Groene Leeuw Liberia Solo Wiel's Groene Leeuw Tibetan |
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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
Web links
- Arthur De Cabooter in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Arthur De Cabooter in the Tour de France database(French / English )
- Arthur De Cabooter on wielersport.slogblog.nl
- Video: Arthur De Cabooter wins the Tour of Flanders 1960 on cyclingfever.com
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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 |