C&A (cycling team)

C&A
Team information
Registered	Belgium
Founded	1978
Disbanded	1978
Discipline(s)	Road
Bicycles	De Rosa
Key personnel
General manager	Rudi Altig; Jos Huysmans
Team name history
1978	C&A

C&A was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed in 1978. The team was formed after the Fiat France team ended the previous season.^[1] It was sponsored by Dutch clothing retailer C&A, who only came into the sport to sponsor a team that had Eddy Merckx on its roster. Merckx, who had ridden with Fiat France, was at the end of his career and he quit the team in March 1978.^[2]

Team roster[]

The following is a list of riders on the C&A squad during the 1978 season, with age given for 1 January 1978.^[1]

	Rider	Date of birth
Joseph Bruyère (BEL)		(1948-10-05)5 October 1948 (aged 29)
Étienne De Beule (BEL)		(1953-11-20)20 November 1953 (aged 24)
Jos Deschoenmaecker (BEL)		(1947-10-02)2 October 1947 (aged 30)
René Dillen (BEL)		(1951-06-18)18 June 1951 (aged 26)
Edward Janssens (BEL)		(1946-01-18)18 January 1946 (aged 31)
Marcel Laurens (BEL)		(1952-06-21)21 June 1952 (aged 25)
Ludo Loos (BEL)		(1955-01-13)13 January 1955 (aged 22)
René Martens (BEL)		(1955-05-27)27 May 1955 (aged 22)
Martin Jacques (BEL)		(1952-04-16)16 April 1952 (aged 25)

	Rider	Date of birth
Eddy Merckx (BEL)		(1945-06-17)17 June 1945 (aged 32)
Robert Mintkiewicz (FRA)		(1947-10-14)14 October 1947 (aged 30)
Walter Planckaert (BEL)		(1948-04-08)8 April 1948 (aged 29)
Willy Planckaert (BEL)		(1944-04-05)5 April 1944 (aged 33)
Eddy Schepers (BEL)		(1955-12-12)12 December 1955 (aged 22)
Guido Van Calster (BEL)		(1956-02-06)6 February 1956 (aged 21)
(BEL)		(1953-07-07)7 July 1953 (aged 24)
(BEL)		(1955-06-01)1 June 1955 (aged 22)
Lucien Van Impe (BEL)		(1946-10-20)20 October 1946 (aged 31)

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "C & A (1978)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
^ Fotheringham, William (2012). Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. Yellow Jersey Press. pp. 281–183. ISBN 978-0-224-09195-4.

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[mdc-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "C & A (1978)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

[2] Fotheringham, William (2012). Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. Yellow Jersey Press. pp. 281–183. ISBN 978-0-224-09195-4.

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