Paving stone for Maurice Desimpelaere in honor of his victory at
Paris-Roubaix
Frederic Maurice Desimpelaere (born May 28, 1920 in Ledegem , † January 30, 2005 in Wevelgem ) was a Belgian cyclist .
Maurice Desimpelaere was a professional cyclist from 1942 to 1950. In 1944 he won Paris – Roubaix , and the following year he was fifth. In 1945 he finished second in the first Omloop Het Volk . In 1946 he won across Flanders and in 1947 the Gent – Wevelgem race , in which he had finished second the year before. In 1947 he finished second in the Walloon Arrow . In 1949 he was ninth in each of Milan – Sanremo and the Tour of Flanders .
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1896 Josef Fischer | 1897, 1898 Maurice Garin | 1899 Albert Champion | 1900 Émile Bouhours | 1901, 1902 Lucien Lesna | 1903, 1904 Hippolyte Aucouturier | 1905 Louis Trousselier | 1906 Henri Cornet | 1907 Georges Passerieu | 1908 Cyrille Van Hauwaert | 1909, 1910, 1911 Octave Lapize | 1912, 1914 Charles Crupelandt | 1913 François Faber | 1915–1918 not held | 1919, 1921 Henri Pélissier | 1920 Paul Deman | 1922 Albert Dejonghe | 1923 Heiri Suter | 1924 Jules Vanhevel | 1925 Félix Sellier | 1926 Julien Delbecque | 1927 Georges Ronsse | 1928 André Leducq | 1929 Charles Meunier | 1930 Julien Vervaecke | 1931, 1934, 1935 Gaston Rebry | 1932 Romain Gijssels | 1933 Sylvère Maes | 1936 Georges Speicher | 1937 Jules Rossi | 1938 Lucien Storme | 1939 Émile Masson junior | 1940–1942 not held | 1943 Marcel Kint | 1944 Maurice Desimpelaere | 1945 Paul Maye | 1946, 1947 Georges Claes | 1948, 1952 Rik Van Steenbergen | 1949 Serse Coppi - André Mahé | 1950 Fausto Coppi | 1951 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1953 Germain Derycke | 1954 Raymond Impanis | 1955 Jean Forestier | 1956 Louison Bobet | 1957 Fred De Bruyne | 1958 Leon Vandaele | 1959 Noël Foré | 1960 Pino Cerami | 1961, 1962, 1965 Rik Van Looy | 1963 Emile Daems | 1964 Peter Post | 1966 Felice Gimondi | 1967 Jan Janssen | 1968, 1970, 1973 Eddy Merckx | 1969 Walter Godefroot | 1971 Roger Rosiers | 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977 Roger De Vlaeminck | 1976 Marc Demeyer | 1978, 1979, 1980 Francesco Moser | 1981 Bernard Hinault | 1982 Jan Raas | 1983 Hennie Kuiper | 1984, 1986 Sean Kelly | 1985, 1991 Marc Madiot | 1987 Eric Vanderaerden | 1988 Dirk Demol | 1989 Jean-Marie Wampers | 1990 Eddy Planckaert | 1992, 1993 Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle | 1994 Andrej Tschmil | 1995, 1998 Franco Ballerini | 1996, 2000, 2002 Johan Museeuw | 1997 Frédéric Guesdon | 1999 Andrea Tafi | 2001 Servais Knaven | 2003 Peter Van Petegem | 2004 Magnus Bäckstedt | 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012 Tom Boonen | 2006, 2010, 2013 Fabian Cancellara | 2007 Stuart O'Grady | 2011 Johan Vansummeren | 2014 Niki Terpstra | 2015 John Degenkolb | 2016 Mathew Hayman | 2017 Greg Van Avermaet | 2018 Peter Sagan | 2019 Philippe Gilbert