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1985 Gent–Wevelgem
The 1985 Gent–Wevelgem was the 47th edition of the Gent–Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 10 April 1985. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Eric Vanderaerden of the Panasonic formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb ... team. General classification References Gent–Wevelgem 1985 in road cycling 1985 in Belgian sport 1985 Super Prestige Pernod International {{Gent–Wevelgem-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Vanderaerden
Eric Vanderaerden (born 11 February 1962) is a retired road cyclist from the town of Lummen, Belgium. He was a considerable talent, winning the prologue time trial of the Vuelta a España in his debut year of 1983. During the 1983 Tour de France he also won the prologue and held the yellow jersey for two days. During the 1984 Tour de France he won two stages, including the final stage of the race which finished on the Champs Elysees in Paris. His participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the eventual Tour winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage. He held the yellow jersey again during this tour, this time for three days. The following year, he won the green jersey. In subsequent years, he won two monument races: in 1985, at 23, he won the storm ridden edition of the Tour of Flanders, and in 1987 he won Paris–Roubaix. After 1988, his career went in decline and, despite his talent, he failed to win major races. He certainly had considerable talent as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tackaert
William Tackaert (born 9 August 1956) is a Belgian former racing cyclist. He rode in five editions of the Tour de France between 1979 and 1983. He most notably won the 1983 E3 Harelbeke and the 1985 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne. Major results ;1979 : 1st Stage 1 Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde : 2nd Nokere Koerse ;1980 : 1st Stage 2a Étoile des Espoirs : 2nd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde : 4th Ronde van Limburg : 5th GP Stad Zottegem : 8th Paris–Roubaix : 8th Scheldeprijs ;1981 : 1st Stage 3a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 2nd Nationale Sluitingprijs : 3rd Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen : 7th Druivenkoers-Overijse : 8th Overall Tour of Belgium : 10th Omloop Het Volk ;1982 : 1st Nokere Koerse : 3rd Omloop van de Westhoek : 6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 8th Grand Prix Cerami ;1983 : 1st E3 Harelbeke : 1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde : 2nd Grand Prix de Denain : 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk : 3rd Ronde van Limburg : 4th Overall Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde : 6th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In Road Cycling
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande
Jean-Philippe "Flupke" Vandenbrande (born 4 December 1955) is a former Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in 1989 Tour de France. Major results ;1978 :1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España ;1980 :2nd Zuri-Metzgete :3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan :3rd Paris–Brussels :5th Rund um den Henninger Turm :8th Brabantse Pijl :10th Amstel Gold Race ;1981 :1st Stage 5 Deutschland Tour :6th Rund um den Henninger Turm :8th GP de Fourmies ;1982 :10th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens :10th Brussel-Ingooigem ;1983 :10th Paris–Brussels ;1984 :1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Colombia :4th Tour of Flanders :4th Brabantse Pijl :9th Paris–Brussels ;1985 :2nd Paris–Brussels :8th Zuri-Metzgete :10th Gent-Wevelgem :10th Overall Route du Sud ;1986 :3rd Tour of Flanders :5th Zuri-Metzgete :6th Rund um den Henninger Turm :7th Liège-Bastogne-Liège :10th Milan-San Remo ;1987 :4th Paris-Roubaix :4th Zuri-Metzgete :7th Brabantse Pijl ;1988 :2nd Brabantse Pijl :3rd Road race, National Road Championships :3rd Tour du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fons Van Katwijk
Alphonsus Wilhelmus Franciscus "Fons" van Katwijk (born 1 December 1951) is a retired Dutch cyclist who was active between 1971 and 1987. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and finished in 17th place in the 100 km team time trial (with Frits Pirard, Adri van Houwelingen and Arie Hassink). He won the Flèche du Sud (1971) and the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (1979) and individual stages of the Olympia's Tour (1976), Vuelta a Aragón (1977), Vuelta a España (1978), Étoile de Bessèges (1979) and Ronde van Nederland (1983). His brothers Piet and Jan, nephew Alain and daughter Nathalie were also professional cyclists. See also * List of Dutch Olympic cyclists This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who competed at the Summer Olympics. As of 2012 events in four cycling disciplines (BMX, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling) have been contested at the Summer Olympics. Dutch cyclist did not c ... References 1951 births Living people Dutch male cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Hanegraaf
Jacobus Johannes Henricus "Jacques" Hanegraaf (born 14 December 1960) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1981 to 1994. He twice won the Dutch title in the men's road race (1981 and 1985). His other major wins include the 1984 Amstel Gold Race. Hanegraaf later became a cycling manager, first for and later for Team Bianchi and Unibet.com. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1980 :Ronde van Midden-Nederland ;1981 :Maastricht : Dutch National Road Race Championship :'s Heerenhoek :Maastricht-Amby ;1982 :Grand Prix of Aargau Canton :Galder :Paris–Brussels ;1983 :Zwevezele ;1984 :Acht van Chaam :Amstel Gold Race :Rotterdam :Zuiddorpe :Made :Ede :Meerssen :Diemen :1984 Tour de France: ::Winner intermediate sprints classification ::Wearing yellow jersey for two days ;1985 :Breda :Elfstedenronde : Dutch National Road Race Championship :Zuiderzee Der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Kelly (cyclist)
John James 'Sean' Kelly (born 24 May 1956) is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classic cycle races, Classics riders of all time. From becoming a professional in 1977 until his retirement in 1994, he won 193 professional races, including nine Cycling monument, Monument Classics, Paris–Nice a record seven years consecutively and the first UCI Road World Cup in 1989. Kelly won one Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour, the 1988 Vuelta a España, and four Points classification in the Tour de France, green jerseys in the Tour de France. He achieved multiple victories in the Giro di Lombardia, Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, as well as three runners-up placings in the only Monument he failed to win, the Tour of Flanders. Other victories include the Grand Prix des Nations and stage races, the Critérium International, Tour de Suisse, Tour of the Basque Country and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Lieckens
Jozef Lieckens (born 26 March 1959) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist. He rode in the Tour de France four times between 1985 and 1989 and in the 1984 Vuelta a España. Major results ;1980 :7th Overall Ruban Granitier Breton ;1981 :1st GP de Fourmies :1st Kattekoers :1st Paris-Troyes :1st Circuit du Port de Dunkerque ;1982 :1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen :2nd Schaal Sels :4th Brabantse Pijl :5th Le Samyn :8th GP de Fourmies ;1983 :3rd De Kustpijl :8th Omloop Het Volk ;1984 :Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 3 & 5 :2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton ;1985 :1st Overall Tour de Picardie :1st Intermediate sprints classification Tour de France :1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens :2nd E3 Harelbeke :2nd Scheldeprijs :2nd Amstel Gold Race :2nd Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem :3rd Dwars door België :3rd Omloop Het Volk :4th Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 5 :4th Paris–Brussels :5th Tour of Flanders :5th Rund um den Henninger Turm :6th Gent-Wevelgem :7th Paris-Roubai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fangio (cycling Team)
Fangio was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed from 1975 to 1979. The team competed in the 1986 Vuelta a España, but did not have any wins. It was succeeded by the team. Final roster Major wins ;1980 : Overall Tour of Ireland, Dave Cuming ;1981 : Omloop Schelde-Durme, Rudy Matthijs ;1982 : Omloop van het Zuidwesten, Alain Van Hoornweder : De Kustpijl, Kurt Dockx ;1983 : Le Samyn, Jacques van Meer : Omloop van het Waasland, Alain Van Hoornweder : Tour Européen Lorraine-Alsace ::Stage 1a, Michel Dernies ::Stage 2, Léo Wellens : Stage 8b Tour de l'Avenir, Léo Wellens ;1984 : Grand Prix de Denain, Yves Godimus : Dwars door West-Vlaanderen, William Tackaert : Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg, William Tackaert ;1985 : Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, William Tackaert : Omloop van het Waasland, William Tackaert : Stage 1 Danmark Rundt, Eric Van Lancker : Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg, Philippe Van Vooren : Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour, William Tackaert : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Castaing
Francis Castaing (born 22 April 1959) is a French former professional road bicycle racer. He won one stage in the 1985 Tour de France. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1979 :Tour de Gironde ;1980 :Bordeaux - Saintes ;1981 : French National Track Championships :Paris–Bourges ;1982 :GP de Peymeinade :GP Ouest-France : National Track Points race Championship ;1984 :Brest :Quilan ;1985 :Breuillet :Lanester :Rodez :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 6 :Castillon-la-Bataille ;1986 :Ronde d'Aix-en-Provence :Tour de Vendée Tour of Vendée is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in October (Previously May) in the region of Vendée, France, finishing in a circuit inside La Roche-sur-Yon town. From 2005 until 2009, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on ... ;1987 :Bordeaux References External links *Official Tour de France results for Francis Castaing French male cyclists 1959 births Living people F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Anderson (cyclist)
Philip Grant Anderson (born 20 March 1958) is a British-born Australian former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. Origins Phil Anderson was born in London but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was young. He grew up in the suburb of Kew and graduated from Trinity Grammar School in 1975. He first raced with Hawthorn Cycling Club, where Allan Peiper, another future professional, was also a member.Cycling Weekly, UK, 21 November 1992 Peiper said: "Phil went to a private school and joined the club with his mate, Peter Darbyshire. My best friend was Tom Sawyer, later a six-day racer in Europe, and we were the two rough nuts, while Phil and Darbs were the two upper-class boys". Amateur career Anderson won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Island in New Zealand and the Australian team time-trial championship at Brisbane in 1978. In that year he also won the Commonwealth Games road race in Edmonton, Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panasonic (cycling Team)
formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb socket manufacturer. In addition to consumer electronics, of which it was the world's largest maker in the late 20th century, Panasonic offers a wide range of products and services, including rechargeable batteries, automotive and avionic systems, industrial systems, as well as home renovation and construction. Panasonic has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX 100 indices. It has a secondary listing on the Nagoya Stock Exchange. Corporate name From 1935 to October 1, 2008, the company's corporate name was "Matsushita Electric Industrial Co." (MEI). On January 10, 2008, the company announced that it would change its name to "Panasonic Corporation", in effect on October 1, 2008, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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