Marcel Janssens

Marcel Janssens

To person
Date of birth	December 30, 1931
date of death	July 29, 1992
nation	Belgium
discipline	Road cycling
Team (s)
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
Most important successes
Tour de France 1957 - 2nd place overall Paris – Roubaix 1959 - 3rd place 1961 - 2nd place
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
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	-	-
Giro d'Italia	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-
Tour de France	32	2	DNF	25th	DNF	-	-	DNF	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Placements among the monuments of cycling

Monument to cycling	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
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

1. ↑ Wielersport.slogblog.nl - De Burgerlijke as of December 30th. In: wielersport.slogblog.nl. December 30, 2006, accessed June 20, 2015 . 
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 27/1966 . Berlin, S. 6 .