Lode Alphonse Wouters (27 May 1929 – 25 March 2014) was a Belgian

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. He was born in

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. He competed for Belgium in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in

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in the individual road race event where he finished in third place. He also led the Belgian team of

Léon Delathouwer Leon De Lathouwer (19 September 1929 – 7 August 2008) was a Belgian road cyclist. He won a gold medal in the team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingd ...

and

Eugène van Roosbroeck Eugène Van Roosbroeck (13 May 1928 – 28 March 2018) was a Belgian racing cyclist from Noorderwijk (Antwerp province). He won a gold medal in team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with Lode Wouters and Leon De Latho ...

to the gold medal in the team road race. He died in March 2014 in

Geel Geel () is a city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which acquired city status in the 1980s. It comprises Central-Geel which is constituted of 4 old parishes a/o towns: Sint-Amand, Sint-Dimpna, Holven and Elsum. Further on around the c ...

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1929 births 2014 deaths Belgian male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Belgium Olympic gold medalists for Belgium Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Antwerp Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1920s-stub