Rudy Matthijs

Rudy Matthijs
	Rudy Matthijs
To person
Date of birth	March 3, 1959
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
End of career	1988
Team (s)
1981 ; 1982–1983 ; 1984 ; 1985 ; 1986 ; 1987 ; 1988	Fangio-Sapeco-Mavic ; Boule d'Or ; Splendor-Mondial Moquette ; Hitachi-Splendor ; Hitachi-Marc-Splendor ; Hitachi-Marc-Rossin ; Hitachi-Bosal
Most important successes
	three stage victories in the 1985 Tour de France
	Last updated: August 29, 2020

Rudy Matthijs or Rudy Matthys (born March 3, 1959 in Eeklo , East Flanders Province ) is a former Belgian cyclist . He was a professional from 1981 to 1988.

Athletic career

Rudy Matthijs began his professional career in 1981 with Team Fangio. In addition to his victories, he was able to take second place in Omloop Vlaamse Scheldeboorden and 17th place in the Tour of Flanders . He then moved to the Boule d'Or team and finished second at Omloop van het Leiedal and third at Nokere Koerse . In 1983 he took part in the Tour de France for the first time , where he won his first stage in the Tour de France , but retired early. That year he finished ninth at Omloop Het Volk , seventh at Dwars door Vlaanderen and second behind winner Eddy Planckaert at the Brabant arrow . After joining Albert De Kimpe's team, his successes increased in 1984 and Matthijs also came second in the Dwars door Vlaanderen and fifth in the Tour of Flanders. Matthijs had his strongest year in 1985 in which he had seven victories, therefore three stage victories in the Tour de France. His victory on the final stage to Paris was the last victory of a Belgian on the Belgian national holiday. In the following years Matthijs could not celebrate any more successes and ended his professional career in spring 1988.

doping

In 1985, Matthijs near Milan-Sanremo tested positive after a doping control draw. Matthijs tested positive again at the Circuit de la Sarthe in 1986 after winning the stage.

successes

1981

Omloop Scheldt Durme

1982

1983

a stage Tour de France
Ronde van Limburg
one stage tour of Luxembourg
Leeuwse Pijl

1984

1985

three stages Tour de France
one stage Tour de Suisse
one stage Aragon tour
two stages 4 Jours de Dunkerque

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour	1983	1984	1985
Vuelta a España	-	-	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-
Tour de France	DNF	DNF	135

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

literature

Jacques Sys: Top 1000 van de Belgische wielrenners , Uitg publishing house. Lannoo NV, 544 pp., ISBN 978-94-0146-7254

Web links

Rudy Matthijs in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Rudy Matthijs in the Radsportseiten.net database

Rudy Matthijs in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

↑ Bart Ver Elst: Rudy Mathijs was the last Belgian to win a stage of the tour on July 21st. In: wielerkrant.be. July 21, 2018, accessed July 22, 2020 (Dutch).
↑ Matthijs caught doping. In: delpher.nl. March 28, 1985, accessed July 22, 2020 (Dutch).
↑ Rudy Matthijs: Doping on the Sarthe. In: delpher.nl. August 15, 1986, accessed July 22, 2020 (Dutch).

personal data
SURNAME	Matthijs, Rudy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Matthys, Rudy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eeklo , Belgium

[1] Bart Ver Elst: Rudy Mathijs was the last Belgian to win a stage of the tour on July 21st. In: wielerkrant.be. July 21, 2018, accessed July 22, 2020 (Dutch).

[2] Matthijs caught doping. In: delpher.nl. March 28, 1985, accessed July 22, 2020 (Dutch).

[3] Rudy Matthijs: Doping on the Sarthe. In: delpher.nl. August 15, 1986, accessed July 22, 2020 (Dutch).