Wouter Weylandt
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| Wouter Weylandt at the Derny Festival in Wetteren 2007 | |
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| Date of birth | September 27, 1984 |
| date of death | May 9, 2011 |
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 Belgium
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| discipline | Street |
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| 2005-2010 2011 |
Quick Step Leopard Trek |
Wouter Weylandt (born September 27, 1984 in Ghent ; † May 9, 2011 in Mezzanego ) was a Belgian racing cyclist .
Life
Wouter Weylandt won the U23 event of the GP Waregem in 2004 . In autumn he drove for Quick Step-Innergetic as a stagiaire and got a professional contract with the UCI ProTeam for the next season. In 2005 he won the Belgian GP Briek Schotte . At the ENECO Tour 2006 he finished third in the mass sprint on one stage, four seconds behind the runaway Manuel Quinziato . He celebrated his greatest successes with stage wins at the Vuelta a España 2008 and the Giro d'Italia 2010 .
For the 2011 season, Weylandt moved from Quick Step to the newly founded Leopard Trek team .
Deadly accident
On May 9, 2011, Weylandt had a serious fall during the Giro d'Italia on the descent from Passo del Bocco around 25 kilometers before the finish of the third stage in Rapallo . While he was orienting himself backwards to make sure of the current racing situation, he brushed against a wall with the left pedal or the left handlebar and was thrown about 20 meters to the other side of the street, where he collided with another object. Weylandt suffered a fracture of the base of the skull and died at the accident site despite attempts to resuscitate immediately.
family
He was in a relationship with his partner An-Sophie De Graeve until his death. She gave birth to their daughter Alizée on September 1, 2011.
successes
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2004 2005 2007
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2008 2009 2010
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Teams
- 2005-2010 Quick Step
- 2011 Team Leopard Trek
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wouter Weylandt died after falling ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Tageblatt Online, news from May 9, 2011.
- ↑ Got stuck on a small wall. Cardoso describes Weylandt's fall ; Cycling news, message from May 10, 2011.
- ^ Giro d'Italia: Belgian professional cyclist dies after falling ; Spiegel-Online, notification of May 9, 2011.
- ^ Daughter of Wouter Weylandt in the world ; lessentiel.lu, notification dated September 2, 2011.
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| SURNAME | Weylandt, Wouter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2011 |
| Place of death | Rapallo , Belgium |