Marc Wauters

Marc Wauters
Personal information
Full name	Marc Wauters
Nickname	De Soldaat (The Soldier)
Born	23 February 1969 (age 55); Hasselt, Belgium
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)
Team information
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Discipline	Road
Role	Rider; Directeur sportif;
Rider type	Time triallist
Professional teams
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Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2001) Stage races Paris–Tours (1999) Prudential Tour (1999) Tour de Luxembourg (1999) One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (2002, 2003, 2005)

Marc Wauters (born 23 February 1969 in Hasselt, Belgium) is a Belgian former cyclist who was professional from 1991 until 2006. The 2004 Olympian, nicknamed The Soldier^[1] was a member of the Rabobank cycling team of the UCI ProTour since 1998 and had to end his career several weeks short because of a broken collarbone which he suffered during a training on 20 September 2006.^[2]

He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Wauters participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he took part in both the road race and the time trial without any success.^[4]^[5] In his early career, between 1991 and 1996 he won several of the smaller road races in The Netherlands and Belgium he was cycling in. The only exception to this was his win in the 5th stage of the 1995 Vuelta a Andalucía.^[6]

In 1997 and 1998 Wauters didn't win a single race, although he became 7th at the World Cycling Championships 1998, his highest position in this event during his career. From 1999 on after winning the Grand Prix Eddy Merckx he started achieving wins again. In this year he also won Paris–Tours, 2 stages in the Tour de Luxembourg plus the overall ranking and the overall classification in the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt. Trying to defend his title in Rheinland-Pfalz he won 3rd stage in 2000. At the end of the tour he had defended his title successively. He won the Grand Prix Eddy Merckx for the second time in his career in 2001. Wauters was known as a worker in the peloton and didn't win much, but helped his teammates achieving decent results. Meanwhile, he developed himself into one of Belgium's best time trial specialists, winning the Belgium championships in 2002, 2003 and 2005. At the 2004 World Championships he finished on a 7th position.^[1]

On 15 October 2006 a memorial race was held in Zolder, Belgium to wave Wauters officially goodbye from the sport.^[2]

Major results

1986

3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships

1987

National Junior Road Championships

1st

Time trial

2nd Road race

1989

3rd Overall Ruban Granitier Breton

1990

3rd Flèche Ardennaise

3rd Seraing–Aachen–Seraing

1991

1st Liedekerkse Pijl

3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Rennes

8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1992

10th Rund um den Henninger Turm

1994

1st Ronde van Limburg

1st Ster van Zwolle

1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem

3rd Circuit des Frontières

7th Le Samyn

1995

4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

1st Stage 5

5th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

1996

1st Sint-Truiden Criterium

1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk

4th GP Rik Van Steenbergen

8th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

1997

2nd Druivenkoers-Overijse

5th Brabantse Pijl

7th Paris–Roubaix

8th Overall Tour de la Region Wallonne

1998

5th Druivenkoers-Overijse

7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1999

1st

Overall Prudential Tour

1st

Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stages 1 & 4 (ITT)

1st

Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

1st Stage 1

1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Erik Dekker)

1st Paris–Tours

4th Tour de Berne

5th Overall Paris–Nice

2000

1st

Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

1st Stage 3b (ITT)

1st Peer Criterium

1st Josef Voegeli Memorial

3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Erik Dekker)

3rd EnBW Grand Prix (with Erik Dekker)

4th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

7th Paris–Roubaix

7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

8th Overall Ronde van Nederland

2001

1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

1st Stage 2 Tour de France

2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

4th GP Rik Van Steenbergen

4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2002

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Erik Dekker)

4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

6th Overall Ronde van Nederland

8th Overall Three Days of De Panne

2003

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal

4th Paris–Roubaix

6th Overall Ronde van Nederland

6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

2004

1st Kortrijk Criterium

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland

4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Erik Dekker)

5th Overall Three Days of De Panne

6th Paris–Brussels

7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

7th LuK Challenge

2005

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

5th LuK Challenge

8th Schaal Sels

2006

1st Peer Criterium

1st 's Gravenwezel Criterium

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd LuK Challenge

Tour de France results

Wauters started in a total of 10 Tour de France editions, finishing in Paris eight times. His highest final ranking was 43rd in 2000.^[7] The year after, during the 2001 Tour de France Wauters won the second stage, held from Calais to Antwerp. He was part of a breakaway containing 16 cyclists together with teammate Erik Dekker. Wauters got away from the group together with Arnaud Pretot who he beat in the final sprint. Because of his decent result in the prologue two days prior in Dunkerque he wore the yellow jersey for a day, before losing it to Stuart O'Grady.^[8]

1993 - 107th
1994 - 92nd
1996 - 124th
1999 - Did not finish
2000 - 43rd
2001 - Winner stage 2, Did not finish
2002 - 91st
2003 - 115th
2004 - 112th
2005 - 140th

References

^ ^a ^b Marc Wauters at Cycling Archives (archived)
^ ^a ^b Abrupt einde aan carrière Wauters Archived 29 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, nos.nl, 20 September 2006
^ "Lotto–Dstny". UCI. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
^ Sydney 2000 results cycling, espn.go.com, 27 September 2000
^ Athens 2004 results cycling, news.bbc.co.uk, 14 August 2004
^ Marc Wauters - Belangrijke overwinningen, cyclebase.nl
^ The Tour since 1903, past results for Marc WAUTERS (BEL), letour.fr
^ Tour de France : Local hero Wauters to wear yellow jersey Archived 13 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine, tcm.ie breaking news, 9 July 2001

External links

Marc Wauters at UCI
Marc Wauters at Cycling Archives (archived)
Marc Wauters at ProCyclingStats
Marc Wauters at CycleBase
Marc Wauters at Olympedia

[cyclingarchives-1] Marc Wauters at Cycling Archives (archived)

[careerend-2] Abrupt einde aan carrière Wauters Archived 29 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, nos.nl, 20 September 2006

[3] "Lotto–Dstny". UCI. Retrieved 18 January 2023.

[4] Sydney 2000 results cycling, espn.go.com, 27 September 2000

[5] Athens 2004 results cycling, news.bbc.co.uk, 14 August 2004

[6] Marc Wauters - Belangrijke overwinningen, cyclebase.nl

[7] The Tour since 1903, past results for Marc WAUTERS (BEL), letour.fr

[8] Tour de France : Local hero Wauters to wear yellow jersey Archived 13 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine, tcm.ie breaking news, 9 July 2001

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v t e Belgian National Time Trial Championships (men)
1980–1999	Marc Streel (1997, 1999)
2000–2019	Rik Verbrugghe (2000) Leif Hoste (2001) Marc Wauters (2002–2003) Bert Roesems (2004) Marc Wauters (2005) Leif Hoste (2006–2007) Stijn Devolder (2008) Maxime Monfort (2009) Stijn Devolder (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Kristof Vandewalle (2012–2014) Jurgen Van den Broeck (2015) Victor Campenaerts (2016) Yves Lampaert (2017) Victor Campenaerts (2018) Wout van Aert (2019)
2020–2039	Wout van Aert (2020) Yves Lampaert (2021) Remco Evenepoel (2022) Wout van Aert (2023) Tim Wellens (2024)