Marcel Janssens
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Date of birth | December 30, 1931 |
date of death | July 29, 1992 |
nation | Belgium |
discipline | Road cycling |
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1954 1955–1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 |
Dilecta-Wolber-JB Louvet Elvé-Peugeot Peugeot-BP-Dunlop Flandria-Dr. Man Dr. Mann-Dossche Sport Dr. Mann Saint-Raphael-Helyett-Hutchinson Solo-Terrot Labo-Dr. Man Lamot Libertas |
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Last updated: March 8, 2020 |
Marcel Janssens (born December 30, 1931 in Edegem , † July 29, 1992 in Nukerke ) was a Belgian cyclist .
Athletic career
In 1951 Marcel Janssens became the Belgian champion in the amateur road race . He was a professional from 1954 to 1965 . He was a typical Flemish cyclist who competed in numerous Belgian fair races and won many of them. At the Tour de Suisse in 1958 , he was sixth overall. In the road race of the UCI Road World Championships in 1955 in Frascati , he finished fifth.
Janssens started six times in the Tour de France ; In 1957 he finished second in the overall standings behind Jacques Anquetil and won the mountain classification at the Col du Galibier . When he participated in 1959 , he won the tenth stage. Other great successes of his career were third place at Paris – Roubaix in 1959 and second place at this race in 1961 .
In 1960 Janssens also won the 600-kilometer one-day race Bordeaux – Paris . After this victory he fell out longer because he fell ill with typhus .
Professional
Janssens worked as a cycling trainer after his career. Among other things, he looked after the Belgian national team in 1966 when they started the GDR tour .
Placements in the Grand Tours
Grand Tour | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 |
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Vuelta a España | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | - | - |
Giro d'Italia | DNF | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | - |
Tour de France | 32 | 2 | DNF | 25th | DNF | - | - | DNF | - |
Placements among the monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 |
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Milan – Sanremo | - | - | 14th | 17th | 10 | 35 | 74 | 65 | - | - | - |
Tour of Flanders | - | - | 11 | 21st | 5 | 25th | - | 38 | 14th | - | - |
Paris – Roubaix | - | - | 12 | 18th | 7th | 3 | - | 2 | - | 4th | 39 |
Liège – Bastogne – Liège | - | 16 | - | - | - | 15th | 10 | 13 | - | - | 28 |
Lombardy tour | - | 10 | 59 | - | 21st | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Marcel Janssens in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Marcel Janssens in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wielersport.slogblog.nl - De Burgerlijke as of December 30th. In: wielersport.slogblog.nl. December 30, 2006, accessed June 20, 2015 .
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 27/1966 . Berlin, S. 6 .
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SURNAME | Janssens, Marcel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Edegem |
DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1992 |
Place of death | Nukerke |