Dirk Demol (born 4 November 1959) is a Belgian former professional

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and a cycling team manager. He is currently assistant sports director of . As a rider, he specialized in the spring classics, having himself won the 1988 edition of the one-day classic

Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional road bicycle racing, bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the 'Cycling m ...

, riding as a professional cyclist for Team ADR.

Racing career

Demol grew up in Kuurne, Belgium. In 1987 he finished third at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. In 1988 he won Paris-Roubaix for Belgian pro team ADR. He retired from racing in 1995.

Management career

In 2000, Demol became assistant team manager for the

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, a position he held until 2007. He then worked as team manager for

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(2008), assistant team manager for

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(2009), and assistant team manager for

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(2010–2011). From 2012–2018 he was assistant sport director for various teams including Radioshack-Nissan, RadioShack Leopard,

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, and Trek-Segafredo. At the end of the 2018 season he left Trek-Segafredo and became the head sports director at Team Katusha-Alpecin for the 2019 season. He joined the

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as the assistant sports director in 2020.

Major results

;1979 : 1st Stage 1

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: 3rd

Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften ( en, Tour of Flanders U23) is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race. It is the version of the Tour of Flanders for under-23 riders and is usually contested a week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Ludovic Capelle ...

;1980 : 2nd

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;1982 : 7th

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;1983 : 4th

Grote Prijs Jef Scherens Grote Prijs Jef Scherens is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world ...

: 9th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a ...

: 9th

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;1984 : 3rd

Omloop van het Houtland Omloop van het Houtland ("Circuit of Houtland") is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Lichtervelde in the region of West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2007, the race is organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe T ...

: 7th

GP Stad Zottegem Egmont Cycling Race is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Zottegem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competiti ...

: 8th

Dwars door België Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI ...

: 10th

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;1985 : 2nd

: 3rd GP Impanis : 9th

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: 10th

;1986 : 2nd

: 5th

: 7th

Scheldeprijs The Scheldeprijs is a cycling race in Flanders and the Netherlands which starts in Terneuzen, crosses the Scheldt River, and finishes in Schoten. Until 2018 it was held entirely in Belgium. The event, ranked as a 1.HC race on the UCI Europe Tou ...

: 7th

;1987 : 2nd

: 3rd

: 9th

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, National Road Championships ;1988 : 1st

: 3rd

;1989 : 5th

;1990 : 3rd

: 6th

;1993 : 4th

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* * Demol's Profile a
ThePaceline.com

2007 Pezcyclingnews interview of Dirk Demol by Matt Wood
Belgian male cyclists 1959 births Living people Cyclists from West Flanders People from Kuurne {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1950s-stub