Roger Decock

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Roger Decock (born April 20, 1927 in Izegem ; † May 31, 2020 in Aarsele ) was a Belgian cyclist .

Roger Decock was a professional cyclist with a short interruption from 1946 to 1961. His greatest successes were the victories at Paris – Nice in 1951 and the Tour of Flanders in 1952. This edition of the Tour of Flanders is due to the bad weather - wind, hail, rain , Snow - as one of the toughest events of this race. He also won the Grote Prijs Briek Schotte in 1949, the Flanders Championship in 1951 and the National Sluitingsprijs in 1957 . He competed in the Tour de France twice - in 1951 and 1952 : in 1951 he finished 17th, and in 1952 he finished 38th. In addition, Decock won numerous smaller races in his home country.

Roger Decock witnessed the crash of Wim van Est on the Tour de France 1951 on the descent from the Col d'Aubisque . He was the only driver who stopped, notified the emergency services and waited for them. As a result, he lost 25 minutes.

After the end of his active cycling career, Decock and his wife ran Café De Wildeman in his home town of Aarsele . In 2002, 50 years after his victory in the Tour of Flanders , he was especially celebrated on the occasion of his passage through Tielt, including a play entitled Cockske wint een brokske . In 2011 his biography Roger Decock - Sluw en Slim was published , written by his companion Guido Van Cauwenberghe and his granddaughter Veronique Coene, who was also active as a cyclist.

Roger Decock died in 2020 at the age of 93 as the oldest winner of the Tour of Flanders to date.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roger Decock, de oudste winnaar van de Ronde, is overleden. In: sporza.be. May 31, 2020, accessed May 31, 2020 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ VIDEO: Roger Decock blikt terug hoe hij Wim Van Est redde na val in ravijn. In: sporza.be. May 31, 2020, accessed May 31, 2020 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Decock, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Izegem
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2020
Place of death Aarsele