Louis Mottiat

Louis Mottiat
Personal information

Full name	Louis Mottiat
Nickname	The iron man ((in Dutch):De man van ijzer)
Born	(1889-07-06)6 July 1889 , Belgium
Died	5 June 1972(1972-06-05) (aged 82) Gilly, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1912-1913	Thomann
1913-1914	Alcyon
1919-1921	Alcyon-La Sportive
1922-1926	Alcyon-Dunlop

Major wins
8 stages Tour de France Liège–Bastogne–Liège(2x) Tour of Belgium (2x)

Louis Mottiat (6 July 1889 – 5 June 1972) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Mottiat was born in , and because of his endurance was nicknamed 'the iron man'. His career was interrupted by World War I. He died in Gilly, aged 82.

Major results[]

1910

1911

Paris-Calais

1912

Tour de France: Winner stage 10

1913

Bordeaux–Paris

1914

Tour of Belgium, including 4 stages

Paris–Brussels

1920

Critérium des As (Bordeaux–Paris-Bordeaux)

Tour of Belgium, including 3 stages

Tour de France

Winner stage 1

Wearing yellow jersey for one day

1921

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Tour de France:

11th place overall classification

Winner stages 1, 4, 5 and 7

Wearing yellow jersey for one day

Paris–Brest–Paris

1922

Engis

Gembloux

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1924

Paris–Tours

Tour de France:

Winner stage 8

1925

Tour de France:

Winner stage 3

External links[]

Louis Mottiat at Cycling Archives

show v t Liège–Bastogne–Liège winners
1880–1899	Léon Houa (1892–1894) (1895–1907, not held)
1900–1919	André Trousselier (1908) Victor Fastre (1909) (1910, not held) Joseph Van Daele (1911) Omer Verschoore (1912) Maurice Moritz (1913) (1914–1918, not held) Léon Devos (1919)
1920–1939	Léon Scieur (1920) Louis Mottiat (1921–1922) René Vermandel (1923–1924) Georges Ronsse (1925) Dieudonné Smets (1926) Maurice Raes (1927) Ernest Mottard (1928) Alphonse Schepers (1929) Hermann Buse (1930) Alphonse Schepers (1931) Marcel Houyoux (1932) François Gardier (1933) Théo Herckenrath (1934) Alphonse Schepers (1935) Albert Beckaert (1936) Éloi Meulenberg (1937) Alfons Deloor (1938) Albert Ritserveldt (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Richard Depoorter (1943) (1944, not held) Jan Engels (1945) Prosper Depredomme (1946) Richard Depoorter (1947) Maurice Mollin (1948) Camille Danguillaume (1949) Prosper Depredomme (1950) Ferdinand Kübler (1951–1952) Alois De Hertog (1953) Marcel Ernzer (1954) Stan Ockers (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Frans Schoubben and Germain Derycke (1957) Fred De Bruyne (1958–1959)
1960–1979	Albertus Geldermans (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961) Jef Planckaert (1962) Frans Melckenbeeck (1963) Willy Bocklant (1964) Carmine Preziosi (1965) Jacques Anquetil (1966) Walter Godefroot (1967) Valère Van Sweevelt (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Roger De Vlaeminck (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1973) Georges Pintens (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Joseph Bruyère (1976) Bernard Hinault (1977) Joseph Bruyère (1978) Dietrich Thurau (1979)
1980–1999	Bernard Hinault (1980) Josef Fuchs (1981) Silvano Contini (1982) Steven Rooks (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Moreno Argentin (1985–1987) Adri van der Poel (1988) Sean Kelly (1989) Eric Van Lancker (1990) Moreno Argentin (1991) Dirk De Wolf (1992) Rolf Sørensen (1993) Evgeni Berzin (1994) Mauro Gianetti (1995) Pascal Richard (1996) Michele Bartoli (1997–1998) Frank Vandenbroucke (1999)
2000–2019	Paolo Bettini (2000) Oscar Camenzind (2001) Paolo Bettini (2002) Tyler Hamilton (2003) Davide Rebellin (2004) Alexander Vinokourov (2005) Alejandro Valverde (2006) Danilo Di Luca (2007) Alejandro Valverde (2008) Andy Schleck (2009) Alexander Vinokourov (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Maxim Iglinsky (2012) Dan Martin (2013) Simon Gerrans (2014) Alejandro Valverde (2015) Wout Poels (2016) Alejandro Valverde (2017) Bob Jungels (2018) Jakob Fuglsang (2019)
2020–2039	Primož Roglič (2020)

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