Roger Swerts (born 28 December 1942) is a Belgian former

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

. As an amateur he placed 18th in the individual road race at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq ...

and won a bronze medal at the 1965 UCI Road World Championships. He turned professional later in 1965.

Major results

;1962 : 2nd Overall

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (; ), officially abbreviated TdP, is an annual, professional men's Race stage, multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages and is usually around 1,200 km ...

::1st Stage 5 ;1964 : 1st Stage 10 Tour de l'Avenir ;1965 : 3rd Bronze medal uci

Road race,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...

: 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies : 4th

Grand Prix d'Isbergues Grand Prix d'Isbergues is a professional cycle road race held in Isbergues, Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which ...

: 7th Overall Course de la Paix ;1966 : 1st Stage 2b ( TTT) Tour of Belgium : 4th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke : 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 5th La Flèche Wallonne : 6th

: 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1967 : 4th Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk () is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been held over a 5 or 6 day period for ...

;1968 : 1st Grand Prix de Monaco : 1st Stage 6a

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

: 4th Brabantse Pijl : 4th

Heist-op-den-Berg Heist-op-den-Berg () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Heist-op-den-Berg proper (including the hamlets: Heist-Goor, Heist-Station, Zonderschot, Heist-Centrum and Bruggeneinde), the villages o ...

: 5th Sassari-Cagliari : 6th Overall Tour of Belgium : 8th Giro del Veneto : 8th Omloop der Zennevallei ;1969 : 1st Züri–Metzgete : 1st Stage 1b ( TTT)

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...

: 5th Road race,

: 6th Overall Giro di Sardegna : 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 6th Trofeo Laigueglia : 6th Omloop van de Fruitstreek : 7th Druivenkoers Overijse ;1970 : 1st Stage 3a ( TTT)

;1971 : 1st

Nationale Sluitingsprijs Nationale Sluitingprijs is a classic cycle races, semi classic European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held annually in Putte (Kapellen), Belgium. From 2005 to 2017, the race was organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Eur ...

: 1st Prologue ( TTT)

: 2nd Brussels–Ingooige : 4th Züri–Metzgete : 6th Paris–Tours : 8th Amstel Gold Race : 8th Brabantse Pijl : 10th Road race,

;1972 : 1st Jersey blue

Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stages 4 & 5b ( ITT) : 1st

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...

: 1st Grand Prix des Nations : 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with

Eddy Merckx Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), known as Eddy Merckx (, ), is a Belgian former professional road and track cyclist racer who is the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling. His victories include an ...

) : 1st Stage 12b ( ITT)

Giro d'Italia The Giro d'Italia (; ), also known simply as the Giro, is an annual stage race, multiple-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. The first race was organized in 19 ...

: 1st Stage 1a ( ITT) Escalada a Montjuïc : 1st Stage 3b ( TTT)

: 2nd Gran Premio di Lugano : 3rd Brabantse Pijl : 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 6th Tour of Flanders : 9th Tour du Condroz : 10th La Flèche Wallonne : 10th Züri–Metzgete ;1973 : 1st Druivenkoers Overijse : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium :

::1st Prologue ( TTT) ::Held Jersey violet

after Prologue : 3rd

Gran Premio Città di Camaiore The Gran Premio Città di Camaiore was a road bicycle race held in Camaiore, Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital cit ...

: 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stage 5b ( ITT) : 7th Overall

Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme The Catalan Cycling Week (''Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme'' in Catalan language, Catalan) was a stage race, multi-stage road bicycle race held in Catalonia, Spain. Held annually from 1963 until 2005, it was run as a 2.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour ...

: 9th Road race, National Road Championships : 9th Overall

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; ) is an annual stage race, multi-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Ital ...

::1st Stages 6a & 6b ( TTT) ;1974 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey blue

Overall Tour of Belgium : 7th Brabantse Pijl : 8th Ronde van Limburg : 9th Circuit des Onze Villes : 10th Overall

::1st Prologue, Stages 8a & 12 ::Held Jersey yellow

after Prologue & Stage 1 : 10th

;1975 : 1st

::1st Prologue ::Held Jersey yellow

after Prologue & Stage 1 : 3rd Dwars door België : 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 5th Overall Tour of Belgium : 7th Paris–Roubaix : 8th

: 9th

: 9th Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen ;1976 : 7th Amstel Gold Race : 8th Brabantse Pijl ;1977 : 8th Overall Tour of Belgium

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

Major championship results timeline

References

External links

* 1942 births Belgian male cyclists Living people Olympic cyclists for Belgium Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Belgian Giro d'Italia stage winners Belgian Vuelta a España stage winners People from Heusden-Zolder Cyclists from Limburg (Belgium) 20th-century Belgian sportsmen Long stubs with short prose {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1940s-stub