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Eric Vanderaerden

Eric Vanderaerden Personal information Full name Eric Vanderaerden Date of birth February 11, 1962(1962-02-11) (age 46) Country Belgium Team information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type Sprinter Major wins Tour de France, green jersey win (1986)
Tour de France 5 stage wins (1983, 1984, 1985)
Tour de France, 5 days in yellow jersey (1983, 1985)
Tour of Flanders (1985)
Paris-Roubaix (1987)
Three Days of De Panne, 5 time winner (1986-1989, 1993) Infobox last updated on: April 16, 2007

Eric Vanderaerden (born February 11, 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 and the Tour de France in his professional debut year 1983. As for classics, he won the Ronde van Vlaanderen in 1985 and Paris-Roubaix in 1987. In the Tour de France, his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage. The next year, he won the green jersey.

After 1988, his career went in decline, though every observer had the impression he could have achieved much more. He certainly had considerable talent as a time trial racer, but as a climber in the mountains his talent was limited. Perhaps, he was partly a victim of the high expectations the Belgian public had to get a successor for Eddy Merckx, a cyclist who was very versatile in winning both classic races and big stage races.[citation needed]

After his active career, Vanderaerden has led a few semi-professional racing teams and was also assistant-manager of a professional Belgo-Italian team. He became a directeur sportif with the DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed team in August 2006.[1] His son Michael Vanderaerden signed a contract with the team in September 2007.[2]

Major results

References

  1. ^ From Roubaix to Wolverhampton - Eric's back at the races. Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
  2. ^ DFL-Cyclingnews wants more Belgians. Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
Sporting positions Preceded by
Seán KellyWinner of the green jersey in the Tour de France
1986 Succeeded by
Jean-Paul van PoppelPreceded by
Seán KellyWinner of Paris-Roubaix
1987 Succeeded by
Dirk Demol
v • d • eTour de FranceMaillot vert (Green jersey)winners

1953 Fritz Schär · 1954 Ferdinand Kübler · 1955-1956 Stan Ockers · 1957 Jean Forestier · 1958 Jean Graczyk · 1959 André Darrigade · 1960 Jean Graczyk · 1961 André Darrigade · 1962 Rudi Altig · 1963 Rik van Looy · 1964-1965 Jan Janssen · 1966 Willy Planckaert · 1967 Jan Janssen · 1968 Franco Bitossi · 1969 Eddy Merckx · 1970 Walter Godefroot · 1971-1972 Eddy Merckx · 1973 Herman van Springel · 1974 Patrick Sercu · 1975 Rik Van Linden · 1976 Freddy Maertens · 1977 Jacques Esclassan · 1978 Freddy Maertens · 1979 Bernard Hinault · 1980 Rudy Pevenage · 1981 Freddy Maertens · 1982-1983 Seán Kelly · 1984 Frank Hoste · 1985 Seán Kelly · 1986 Eric Vanderaerden · 1987 Jean-Paul van Poppel · 1988 Eddy Planckaert · 1989 Seán Kelly · 1990 Olaf Ludwig · 1991 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov · 1992 Laurent Jalabert · 1993-1994 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov · 1995 Laurent Jalabert · 1996-2001 Erik Zabel · 2002 Robbie McEwen · 2003 Baden Cooke · 2004 Robbie McEwen · 2005 Thor Hushovd · 2006 Robbie McEwen · 2007 Tom Boonen

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