Rudy Dhaenens
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| Full name | Rudy Dhaenens | ||||||||||||
| Born | 10 April 1961 Belgium |
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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| 1990 World Road Racing Champion | |||||||||||||
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Rudy Dhaenens (Deinze 10 April 1961 – Aalst 6 April 1998) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who is most famous for winning the World Cycling Championships in 1990 as a member of the Belgian national team.
Dhaenens excelled several times in the Paris–Roubaix classic race; finishing second in 1986 and third the following year. Dhaenens won the 1990 World Championship Road Race, held in Utsunomiya, Japan, ahead of Dirk De Wolf of Belgium and Gianni Bugno of Italy. In 1992, Dhaenens was forced to stop his career because of heart problems. For a long time, he was in the service of the PDM cycling team, usually as tactical captain. Dhaenens was known for his calm, reserved attitude.
He died at the age of 36 because of a car accident in Aalst while driving to the finish of the Tour of Flanders bicycle race.[1] In his honor, the Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens is held each year in Nevele, Belgium.
Major achievements
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- 1986
- 1st, Stage 11, Tour de France
- 2nd, Paris–Roubaix
- 1987
- 3rd, Paris–Roubaix
- 1988
- 8th, Tour of Flanders
- 1990
- 1st (Gold Medal), ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.›
World Cycling Championships - 2nd, Tour of Flanders
Tour de France record
Notes
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External links
- Rudy Dhaenens at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Official Tour de France results for Rudy Dhaenens
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