Lucien Van Impe

Lucien Van Impe
	Van Impe at the 1975 Acht van Chaam
Personal information
Full name	Lucien Van Impe
Nickname	de kleine van Mere
Born	20 October 1946 (age 77); Mere, Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional teams
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1977	Lejeune–BP
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1985	Santini–Krups
1986	Dormilon
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Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France General classification (1976) Mountains Classification (1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983) 9 Individual Stages Giro d'Italia Mountains Classification (1982, 1983) 1 Individual Stage Vuelta a España 1 Individual Stage One-day races and Classics National Road Race Champion (1983)

Lucien Van Impe (pronounced [lɵsˈjɛn vɑn ˈɪmpə]; born 20 October 1946) is a Belgian cyclist, who competed professionally between 1969 and 1987. He excelled mainly as a climber in multiple-day races such as the Tour de France. He was the winner of the 1976 Tour de France, and six times winner of the mountains classification in the Tour de France.

Biography

Van Impe credits the start of his career to Spaniard Federico Bahamontes, a climber nicknamed the eagle of Toledo and a former Tour de France winner. In 1968 van Impe was King of the Mountains in the Tour de l'Avenir. Bahamontes used his influence to get van Impe a contract as a professional. In 1969, Van Impe started his professional career with a 12th place in the 1969 Tour de France. In 1971, Van Impe won his first mountains classification in the Tour de France. He would repeat that five more times,^[1] a record then shared with Bahamontes. When Richard Virenque broke the record with a seventh victory in 2004, Van Impe criticized Virenque for being opportunistic rather than the best climber; he said he had himself refrained from breaking Bahamontes' record himself out of reverence.

Van Impe's Sonolor team fused with Gitane to become Gitane-Campagnolo in 1975. Former French champion Cyrille Guimard, who retired in early 1976, became directeur sportif in 1976. In that year Van Impe duelled several times with Zoetemelk in the mountains of the 1976 Tour de France. Guimard claims it was his order to attack Zoetemelk that won Van Impe the Tour, shouting at Van Impe that he'd run him off the road with the car if he didn't attack.^[2] Van Impe has denied this. After 1976, Van Impe changed teams. In the 1977 Tour de France he started favorite but failed to take a lead in the mountains. He waited until the last mountain stage, to Alpe d'Huez, but forgot to eat, causing him to lose his lead. In that tour, he was caught by one of the accompanying cars and fell, another cause for his defeat by Bernard Thévenet.

After three lesser years, Van Impe made a comeback in 1981 with second place and first in the mountain classification. He won the mountain classification in the Giro d'Italia twice.

Single-day races were not his specialty and it was a surprise that he won the national championship in 1983.

Van Impe started 15 Tours de France and reached the finish in Paris every time (second most Tour finishes after Joop Zoetemelk, and tied with Viatcheslav Ekimov who did the same in 2006).^[3]

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Lucien Van Impe lives in Impe[2] (his family name refers to that town) with his wife Rita, he has two grown up children, a son and a daughter. His house is called Alpe D'Huez, after the French mountain where he took the yellow jersey (the leader in the Tour de France) in 1976. When he came home that year, the bar where his supporters gathered every day to watch him win the Tour, was painted yellow entirely.

During or after his professional career, Van Impe has never tested positive, refused a doping test or confessed having used doping.^[4]

Career achievements

Major results

1968

1st Stage 8 Tour de l'Avenir

1969

1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Navarra

1st Stage 6 Tour of Belgium

1971

3rd Overall Tour de France

1st

Mountains classification

1972

4th Overall Tour de France

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 12

1973

5th Overall Tour de France

1st Stage 12b

2nd Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 3

1st Stage 3 GP du Midi-Libre

1975

3rd Overall Tour de France

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 14

1st Stage 18

1st Overall Tour de l'Aude

1st Stage 1

1st Stage 3

1976

1st

Overall Tour de France

1st Stage 14

2nd Overall GP du Midi-Libre

1st Stage 4b

1st Stage 2b Tour de l'Aude

1977

3rd Overall Tour de France

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 15b

3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Stage 6

2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 7

1st Stage 8

1979

5th Overall Vuelta a España

1st Stage 15

1st Stage 16 Tour de France

1st Stage 7b Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

1981

2nd Overall Tour de France

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 5

1982

2nd Overall Giro d'Italia

1st

Mountains classification

1983

1st

National Road Race Champion

4th Overall Tour de France

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 19

9th Overall Giro d'Italia

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 11

1986

1st Overall Vuelta a los Valles Mineros

1st Stage 1

Grand Tour results timeline

	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Tour de France	12	6	3	4	5	18	3	1	3	9	11	16	2	DNE	4	DNE	27	DNE
Stages won	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	—	1	—	0	—
Mountains classification	12	4	1	1	5	12	1	2	1	10	5	8	1	—	1	—	NR	—
Points classification	NR	NR	9	9	8	NR	10	9	10	NR	6	NR	17	—	NR	—	NR	—
Giro d'Italia	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	4	9	7	13	DNE
Stages won	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	1	0	0	—
Mountains classification	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	12	NR	—
Points classification	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	7	NR	NR	NR	—
Vuelta a España	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	14	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	11
Stages won	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
Mountains classification	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	NR	—	—	—	—	—	—	NR
Points classification	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	NR

Legend
1	Winner
2–3	Top three-finish
4–10	Top ten-finish
11–	Other finish
DNE	Did not enter
DNF-x	Did not finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-x	Did not start (not started on stage x)
HD	Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x)
DSQ	Disqualified
N/A	Race/classification not held
NR	Not ranked in this classification

Notes

^ "Past results for Lucien VAN IMPE (BEL)". letour.fr.
^ [1] Archived 25 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Historical results - Tour de France". Cycling hall of fame.
^ Randewijk, Marije (7 July 2007). "Ik zal toch niet de enige zijn?" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant.

External links

Cycling hall of fame biography

[1] "Past results for Lucien VAN IMPE (BEL)". letour.fr.

[2] [1] Archived 25 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Historical results - Tour de France". Cycling hall of fame.

[4] Randewijk, Marije (7 July 2007). "Ik zal toch niet de enige zijn?" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant.

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v t e Belgian National Road Race Champion (men)
1880–1899	Léon Houa (1894) Henri Luyten (1895–1896) Henri Bertrand (1897–1898) Jules Degeetere (1899)
1900–1919	Mathieu Quoidbach (1900) Paul Burger (1901) Jules Defrance (1902) Arthur Vanderstuyft (1903) Jules Sales (1904) Dieudonné Jamar (1905) Francois Verstraeten (1907–1908) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1909) Henri Hanlet (1910) Odile Defraye (1911) Omer Verschoore (1912) Joseph Van Daele (1913) Victor Dethier (1914) Jean Rossius (1919)
1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920–1921) René Vermandel (1922) Félix Sellier (1923) René Vermandel (1924) Gerard Debaets (1925) Félix Sellier (1926) August Mortelmans (1927) Joseph Dervaes (1928) Joseph Wauters (1929–1930) Alphonse Schepers (1931) Georges Lemaire (1932) Louis Duerloo (1933) Louis Roels (1934) Gustave Danneels (1935) Jean Aerts (1936) Karel Kaers (1937) Petrus Van Theemsche (1938) Marcel Kint (1939)
1940–1959	Odiel Van Den Meersschaut (1940) André Defoort (1941) André Maelbrancke (1942) Rik Van Steenbergen (1943, 1945) Émile Masson Jr. (1946–1947) Achiel Buysse (1948) Valère Ollivier (1949) Albert Ramon (1950) Lode Anthonis (1951) Jozef Schils (1952) Alois Vansteenkiste (1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Emiel Van Cauter (1955) André Vlayen (1956–1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Petrus Oellibrandt (1959)
1960–1979	Frans De Mulder (1960) Michel Van Aerde (1961) Jef Planckaert (1962) Rik Van Looy (1963) Edward Sels (1964) Walter Godefroot (1965) Guido Reybrouck (1966) Jozef Boons (1967) Julien Stevens (1968) Roger De Vlaeminck (1969) Eddy Merckx (1970) Herman Vanspringel (1971) Walter Godefroot (1972) Frans Verbeeck (1973) Roger Swerts (1974) Willy Teirlinck (1975) Freddy Maertens (1976) Michel Pollentier (1977–1978) Gery Verlinden (1979)
1980–1999	Jos Jacobs (1980) Roger De Vlaeminck (1981) Frank Hoste (1982) Lucien Van Impe (1983) Eric Vanderaerden (1984) Paul Haghedooren (1985) Marc Sergeant (1986) Ferdi Van Den Haute (1987) Etienne De Wilde (1988) Carlo Bomans (1989) Claude Criquielion (1990) Benjamin Van Itterbeeck (1991) Johan Museeuw (1992) Alain Van Den Bossche (1993) Wilfried Nelissen (1994–1995) Johan Museeuw (1996) Tom Steels (1997–1998) Ludo Dierckxsens (1999)
2000–2019	Axel Merckx (2000) Ludovic Capelle (2001) Tom Steels (2002) Geert Omloop (2003) Tom Steels (2004) Serge Baguet (2005) Niko Eeckhout (2006) Stijn Devolder (2007) Jürgen Roelandts (2008) Tom Boonen (2009) Stijn Devolder (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Stijn Devolder (2013) Jens Debusschere (2014) Preben Van Hecke (2015) Philippe Gilbert (2016) Oliver Naesen (2017) Yves Lampaert (2018) Tim Merlier (2019)
2020–2039	Dries De Bondt (2020) Wout van Aert (2021) Tim Merlier (2022) Remco Evenepoel (2023) Arnaud De Lie (2024)

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