Eddy Schepers

Eddy Schepers

Schepers, c. 1988-89
Personal information
Born	(1955-12-11) 11 December 1955 Tienen, Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1978	C&A
1979–1981	DAF Trucks–Aida
1982	Gis Gelati
1983	Perlav–Eurosoap
1984	Dromedario
1985	Lotto
1986–1987	Carrera–Inoxpran
1988–1989	Fagor–MBK
1990	IOC–Tulip Computers

Eddy Schepers (born 12 December 1955) is a Belgian former professional cyclist. He was a professional cyclist from 1978 to 1990 where he rode for many teams including C&A, Carrera and Fagor–MBK. He started out in the C&A cycling team of Belgian Eddy Merckx before riding for various teams. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In 1986 he rode alongside Irish cyclist Stephen Roche for the first time in the Carrera cycling team and he became a loyal teammate of Roche that year. During the following year, Schepers was instrumental in Roche winning the 1987 Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in supporting him on the road and also against the rest of the team who wanted the Italian Roberto Visentini to win the Giro d'Italia. On the fifth stage of the 1987 Giro d'Italia, Schepers let his breakaway companion Jean-Claude Bagot take the stage win in exchange for team support from Bagot's Fagor team if it was called upon in the future. In spite of working for Roche in the Giro d'Italia, Schepers still managed to place 12th in the general classification. Again in the 1987 edition of the Tour de France, Schepers provided Roche with crucial support while the rest of the team did not. Afterwards Schepers went with Roche to the Fagor team but with Roche past his peak due to chronic knee injury, their association stopped. Schepers spent his last year in the peloton riding for the Belgian team Tulip Computers.

His career victories include the overall of the Tour de l'Avenir stage race in 1977 and the first stage of the 1985 Tour de Romandie.

Major results

1977

1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir

1st Overall Giro delle Regioni

1978

3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude

1979

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Brabantse Pijl

5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

9th Overall GP du Midi-Libre

1980

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1981

6th Züri-Metzgete

6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

7th Rund um den Henninger Turm

8th La Flèche Wallonne

1983

4th La Flèche Wallonne

1985

1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie

6th Overall Tour of Belgium

1986

8th Overall Critérium International

1987

1st Stage 3 (TTT) Giro d'Italia

4th Overall Critérium International

8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1988

9th Overall Vuelta a España

Notes

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Stephen Roche's World of Cycling (Hardcover) by Stephen Roche (Author), David Walsh (Author) 1988