Frans Melckenbeeck

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Frans Melckenbeeck (born November 15, 1940 in Lede ) is a former Belgian cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

As an amateur , he managed to achieve 36 victories in the 1961 season, including two stage wins in the Tour of Belgium , the Tour of Limburg , and the Belgian road race championship . When Jean Jourden won the UCI Road World Championships in 1961 , he finished 5th. In 1962, he won another national title when he at the Belgian track championships in two-team driving with Romain De Loof won.

He then became a professional driver in the French team Mercier , in which Raymond Poulidor was the captain. In 1963 he won the Liège – Bastogne – Liège race, one of the monuments of cycling ahead of Pino Cerami . In his first Tour de France in 1962 , he retired. In 1963 he won the 4th stage and then retired on the 9th stage, also in 1964 . He came second in the Tour of Flanders in 1963.

In 1964 he was able to win the Omloop Het Volk  race, as well as a stage near Paris-Nice and two stages of the Vuelta a España . In 1965 he won another stage in the Vuelta.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1954 to 1965 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 1999, p. 160 .
personal data
SURNAME Melckenbeeck, Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lede