Eric Leman

Eric Leman

Eric Leman (2015)
To person
Date of birth	July 17, 1946
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
End of career	1977
Most important successes
Tour de France 1968 - a stage 1969 - one stage 1971 - three stages Vuelta a España 1971 - one stage
Last updated: December 17, 2018

Eric Leman (born July 17, 1946 in Ledegem ) is a former Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

Eric Leman embodied the typical Belgian specialist for one-day races . As an amateur, he won a total of 25 victories in the 1967 season. He was seen as a sprint and strong-willed. These qualities contributed to the fact that he was able to beat Eddy Merckx and Walter Godefroot in his first win of a total of three (1972 and 1973) at the Tour of Flanders in 1970 . With Achiel Buysse , Fiorenzo Magni , Johan Museeuw and Tom Boonen, Leman is one of the record holders in this race, who won the race three times.

Leman achieved a total of 39 victories during his professional career. He took part in the Tour de France five times between 1968 and 1974 . He was able to win five stages. He also won several stages at Paris – Nice , the Spain and the Andalusia tour . In 1968 he also won the Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne race , the Briek Schotte Grand Prix in 1970 and the Gran Premio de Valencia in 1972 .

In 1971 his wife was killed in a car accident while traveling to the Amstel Gold Race , a few weeks after his teammate Jean-Pierre Monseré was hit by a car during a race and died.

Successes (selection)

1968

• Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne
• a stage 4 Jours de Dunkerque
• a stage Tour de France

1969

• four stages tour of Andalusia
• a stage Paris – Nice
• a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
• a stage Tour de France

1970

• two stages tour of Andalusia
• a stage Paris – Nice
• Tour of Flanders
• Prologue Tour of Belgium

1971

• Prologue and a stage tour of Andalusia
• two stages Paris – Nice
• two stages of the Critérium du Dauphiné
• three stages Tour de France
• Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

1972

• two stages Paris – Nice
• a stage tour of Belgium
• Tour of Flanders
• a stage 4 Jours de Dunkerque

1973

• a stage Paris – Nice
• Tour of Flanders

1974

• a stage Paris – Nice
• a stage Vuelta a España

1975

• two stages Paris – Nice

1977

• one stage Aragon tour

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	55	22nd	DNF
Giro d'Italia
Tour de France	52	79	DNF	91	-	-	DNF	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Monuments of cycling

Monument to cycling	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976
Milan – Sanremo	19th	9	3	-	45	13	2	-	-
Tour of Flanders	40	22nd	1	24	1	1	4th	-	26th
Paris – Roubaix	36	-	3	6th	4th	11	5	26th	21st
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lombardy tour

Teams

• 1968–1971 Flandria
• 1972 Bic
• 1973 Peugeot
• 1974-1975 De Gribaldy
• 1976 Zoppas-Splendor-Sinalco
• 1977 Zeepcentrale Deinze-Carpenter-Splendor

Web links

Commons : Eric Leman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Eric Leman in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Eric Leman in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Eric Leman in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• ronde van Vlaanderen 1970 Eric Leman on YouTube , 28 May 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Udo Witte: Campionissimo, Monsieur Chrono, Kannibale & Co. BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-7824-7 , p. 1977 ( limited preview in the Google book search).