Daniel Willems
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Daniel Willems |
| Born | 16 August 1956 Herentals, Belgium |
| Died | 2 September 2016 (aged 60) Vorselaar, Belgium |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1978–1980 | Ijsboerke |
| 1981 | Capri Sonne-Koga Miyata |
| 1982–1983 | Boule d'Or |
| 1984 | Murella |
| 1985 | Safir-Van de Ven |
| Major wins | |
| La Flèche Wallonne (1981) Paris–Tours (1980) Tour de France, 4 stages | |
Daniel Willems (16 August 1956 – 2 September 2016)[1] was a Belgian road bicycle racer. Health problems ended his career in 1986. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2]
Major results
- 1976
Belgium National Military Road Race Champion- 1977
- Belgium National Amateur Road Race Champion
- 1st, Overall, Ruban Granitier Breton
- 1978
- 1st, Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st, Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
- 1st, criterium Stekene
- 1979
- 1st, Rund um den Henninger-Turm
- 1st, Overall, Tour of Belgium
- Winner Stage 4b
- 1st, Overall, Four Days of Dunkirk
- Winner Stage 4b
- 1st, Brabantse Pijl
- 1st, Scheldeprijs
- 1st, Omloop van het Leiedal
- 1st, Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen
- 1st, criteriums Purnode, Kalmthout, Zele & Herselt
- 3rd, Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd, Tour of Flanders
- 4th, GP d'Automne
- 5th, Overall, Paris–Nice
- 1980
- 1st, Paris–Tours
- 1st, Overall, Vuelta a Andalucía
- Winner Stages 3 & 5a
- 1st, Ronde van Limburg
- 1st, Boucles de l'Aulne
- 1st, criteriums Oostkamp, De Haan, Humbeek, Lede, Kalmthout, Zingem & Rummen
- 2nd, Overall, Tour of Belgium
- Winner Stage 5
- 5th, Overall, Tour de Suisse
- Winner Prologue, stages 1, 2, 3, 4a & 4b
- 5th, Züri-Metzgete
- 1981
- 1st, Flèche Wallonne
- 1st, GP d'Antibes
- 1st, Critérium des As
- 1st, criteriums Wielsbeke, Booischot, Heist-op-den-Berg, Neder-Over-Heembeek & Bilzen
- 1st, Hamburg (with Dietrich Thurau)
- 1st, Stages 11 & 19, Tour de France
- 1st, Stage 3, GP du Midi-Libre
- 1st, Stage 1a, Tour of Belgium
- 1st, Stage 3, Tour de l'Aude
- 5th, Overall, Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- Winner Stages 1, 4 & 5
- 1982
- 1st, Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1st, criteriums Partinico, Kruishoutem, Ronse & Herselt
- 1st, Stages 1 & 2a, Tour Midi-Pyrénées
- 1st, Stage 1, Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2nd, Overall, Three Days of De Panne
- Winner Stage 4
- 7th, Overall, Tour de France:
- Winner Stages 2 & 20
- 1983
- 1st, criteriums Moerbeke & Buggenhout
References
- ^ (in Dutch) Ex-Tourritwinnaar Daniel Willems overleden, Het Laatste Nieuws, 3 September 2016
- ^ "Daniel Willems Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
External links
- Daniel Willems at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Official Tour de France results for Daniel Willems
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