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1997 Gent–Wevelgem
The 1997 Gent–Wevelgem was the 59th edition of the Gent–Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 9 April 1997. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Philippe Gaumont of the Cofidis Cofidis is a French company, now majority owned by Crédit Mutuel, based in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. Founded in 1982 by 3 Suisses International in cooperation with Cetelem, Cofidis specialized in the consumer credit business of the 3 Suisses Group. I ... team. General classification References Gent–Wevelgem 1997 in road cycling 1997 in Belgian sport {{Gent–Wevelgem-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Gaumont
Philippe Gaumont (22 February 1973 – 17 May 2013) was a French professional road racing cyclist. He earned a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, 100 km team time trial. In 1997 he won the Belgian classic Gent–Wevelgem and he was twice individual pursuit French national champion, in 2000 and 2002. In 2004, Gaumont quit professional cycling and later ran a café in Amiens. Gaumont was well known for having confessed to extensive doping and explaining many tricks of the trade. Gaumont gave a series of interviews, and wrote a book, ''Prisonnier du dopage'' ("Prisoner of doping") in which he explained doping methods, masking methods, the use of drug cocktails such as the pot belge for training and for recreation, and how the need to make money makes racers dope themselves. In April 2013 he suffered a major heart attack and was reported to be in a coma. On 13 May 2013, several news sources reported his death, but according to '' La Voix du Nord'' he remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serguei Outschakov
Serguei Outschakov (born 11 May 1968 in Arkhangelsk) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian former road bicycle racer. He won stages in all three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. In 1997 Tour de France he finished first in the 11th stage but was relegated to third place for not holding his line in the final sprint. His Tour de France stage victory came in 1995 Tour de France , 1995 when he and Lance Armstrong broke away and Outschakov won in the sprint. According to the ESPN “30 for 30” documentary, “Lance”, the loss to Outschakov was the impetus for Armstrong’s decision to start taking EPO. Major results ;1988 : 1st Stage 9 Olympia's Tour ;1990 : 1st Stage 5b (individual time trial, ITT) Giro delle Regioni ;1992 : 1st Giro del Mendrisiotto ;1993 : 1st Stage 18 1993 Vuelta a España, Vuelta a España ;1994 : 1st Acht van Chaam ;1995 : 1st Stage 13 1995 Tour de France, Tour de France : 1st Stage 20 1995 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia : 1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges ::1st Stages 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Calcaterra
Giuseppe Calcaterra (born 9 December 1964) is an Italian racing cyclist. His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found suspicious for EPO when retested in 2004. Major results Source: ;1985 :5th Firenze–Pistoia ;1986 :2nd Trofeo Laigueglia :9th Giro di Romagna :10th Tre Valli Varesine ;1987 :1st Stage 18 Giro d'Italia :1st Stage 6 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali :1st Nice-Alassio :2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico :5th Milan–San Remo ;1988 :6th Milan–San Remo :6th Trofeo Laigueglia :10th Tour of Flanders ;1989 :9th Milan–San Remo ;1990 :1st Stage 4 GP du Midi-Libre ;1992 :9th G.P. Camaiore ;1993 :1st Overall Giro di Puglia ::1st Stage 2 :1st Giro dell'Appennino :8th G.P. Camaiore :9th Giro di Romagna ;1994 :1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España :1st Stage 3 Tour of Sweden :4th Nice-Alassio ;1997 :10th Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Museeuw
Johan Museeuw (born 13 October 1965) is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed ''The Lion of Flanders'', he was particularly successful in the cobbled classics of Flanders and Northern France and was considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion in 1996. Other notable career achievements include two individual stage wins in the Tour de France, two final classifications of the UCI Road World Cup, two national road race championships and several classic cycle races. In 1996 he received the Vélo d'Or, awarded annually to the rider considered to have performed the best over the year. Early life and amateur career Born in Varsenare, Museeuw grew up in Gistel, West Flanders. His father Eddy had been a professional cyclist for two seasons, albeit without much success. As a junior and amateur, Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrizio Guidi
Fabrizio Guidi (born 13 April 1972 in Pontedera, Province of Pisa) is an Italian former road bicycle racer. Guidi won over 40 races since he turned professional in 1995, including two stages in Giro d'Italia and three stages of 1998 Vuelta a España. He also won the Intergiro competition of Giro d'Italia in 1996, 1999 and 2000. He retired at the end of 2007 season, riding for the British team Barloworld. Major results ;1995 *1 stage, Volta a Portugal ;1996 *1996 Giro d'Italia: :: points classification *1st overall, Danmark Rundt * Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi * Grand Prix of Aargau Canton * Tre Valli Varesine ;1997 *2 stages, Volta a Portugal *1 stage, Euskal Bizikleta ;1998 *3 stages, Vuelta a España :: Points Classification. ;1999 *1 stage, Giro d'Italia ;2000 *1 stage, Giro d'Italia *1 stage, Tour of Netherlands ;2001 *1 stage, Tour de Romandie *1 stage, Paris–Nice ;2002 Team Coast *1 stage, Brixia Tour ;2003 Team Bianchi : ;2004 – Team CSC *1 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady (born 6 August 1973) is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013. A former track cyclist, O'Grady and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in the Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics. O'Grady also won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 races. He wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001. With his participation in the 2013 Tour de France, he tied George Hincapie's record of 17 participations in the Tour de France. However, Hincapie was removed from three of his 17 starts for his part in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and O'Grady himself admitted having been assisted by illicit erythropoietin (EPO) use at least on the 1998 Tour de France (the Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk holds the absolute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Vogels
Hendricus "Henk" Vogels (born 31 July 1973, in Perth) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer who retired from competition at the end of the 2008 season, riding with the Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team. He won the Australian national road race title in 1999. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. He was subsequently directeur sportif of the Fly V-Successful Living team. Vogels also provides expert opinion for SBS Cycling Central. Vogels served as sports director of the team in 2014, however he left the team at the end of the season in order to take a break from the sport in 2015 and spend more time with his family. In 2019 he was announced as the sports director of the Australian ARA Pro Racing cycling team, based in Queensland. His father, Henk Vogels Sr, was a former Australian cyclist who competed in the team pursuit at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1994 : 1st Stage 1 Commonwealth Bank Classic ;1995 : 1st Stage 14, Heral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Ferrigato
Andrea Ferrigato (born 1 September 1969 in Schio) is an Italian former road bicycle racer. Career In 1991 he turned professional with , which he rode for until 1993. In 1994 he won the 12th stage at the Giro d'Italia, while his best year was 1996, while riding for . That season he won the Leeds International Classic and the Grand Prix de Suisse and placed second to Johan Museeuw in the UCI Road World Cup. During some years he was in the Italian national team, and competed in two editions of the road world championship. He rode a season for the team , before leaving in March 2005, when he began to work for the company Selle Italia. Since 2011 he has been working for the tour operator Girolibero, specialized in cycling holidays, where he has been planning roadbike tours and creating the brochure Girolibero Roadbike. Major results ;1990 : 1st Gran Premio di Poggiana : 1st Giro del Casentino ;1991 : 1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : 8th Gran Premio Città di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cofidis (cycling Team)
Cofidis Solutions Crédits () is a French professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by a money-lending company, Cofidis. It was started in 1996 by Cyrille Guimard, the former manager of Bernard Hinault, Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon of the Renault-Elf-Gitane team of the 1980s. The team's sponsor has supported the team despite repeated problems such as doping scandals. After it was part of the UCI ProTour for the ProTour's first five seasons, from 2010 the team competed as a UCI Professional Continental team. The team joined the UCI World Tour for the 2020 season. History Cyrille Guimard started the team in 1996 with backing from François Migraine, the chief executive of Cofidis. An early acquisition was Lance Armstrong, formerly of Motorola Cycling Team. Armstrong was dropped because of his cancer and another American, Bobby Julich, became leader for stage races. Julich's place in the top three of the 1998 Tour de France brought the team to the spotlight, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Tchmil
Andrei Tchmil (born 22 January 1963) is a retired Soviet (until 1991), Moldovan (1992–1995), Ukrainian (1995–1998) and Belgian (since 1998) professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Cycling career Tchmil was born in Khabarovsk, Russia. His family moved to Ukraine during the days of the Soviet Union. He started cycling and showed enough talent to be moved to a cycling school in Moldova. The glasnost in the Soviet Union allowed him to try a professional career with the Italian Alfa Lum team in 1989. After the collapse of the Soviet Union he became a Ukrainian citizen, although he eventually moved to Belgium early in his professional career. ''"People are cynical when I talk about Belgium. They think I'm only Belgian on paper. That is not true. Yes, I was a Russian, even a proud one.... Now I am proud to be Belgian. The first thing I did was learn French. Now there are some books in my suitcase to learn Flem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wevelgem
Wevelgem () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Gullegem, Moorsele and Wevelgem proper. On January 1, 2006, Wevelgem had a total population of 31,020. The total area is 38.76 km² which gives a population density of 800 inhabitants per km². You can reach Wevelgem by road (E403 – A19 – R8), by boat ( De Leie), by air ( Kortrijk-Wevelgem International Airport) or by train at Wevelgem railway station. Wevelgem is known for the annual Gent–Wevelgem bicycle road race which finishes in the town. History The earliest known mention dates from 1197. Wevelgem was home to the Cistercian Guldenberg Abbey in the 13th–14th centuries, which owned grain mills in various locations. From c. 1278 to 1310, abbess Ida was in charge, though Marc Brion lists it as an abbey for men. In the old days, the river De Leie was important for Wevelgem. The people used the river to soak flax, before they processed it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. It is a Port of Ghent, port and Ghent University, university city. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke (East Flanders), Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. With 262,219 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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