Rudy Matthijs
Personal information | |
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Full name | Rudy Matthijs |
Born | Eeklo, Belgium | 3 March 1959
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Major wins | |
4 stages Tour de France |
Rudy Matthijs (born 3 March 1959, in Eeklo) is a Belgian retired professional road bicycle racer. He won 4 stages in the Tour de France, 3 of which came during the 1985 Tour de France on stages 1 and 2, and then on the final stage of the tour with one of the biggest sprinter's stages in all of cycling on the Champs Elysees.
Major results[]
- 1981
- Embach
- Omloop Schelde-Durme
- Teralfene
- Moorslede
- 1982
- Deinze
- Vosselaar
- Grand Prix de Fourmies
- Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 1983
- Haasdonk
- Leeuwse Pijl
- Ronde van Limburg
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Waver
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 3
- 1984
- Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1985
- Londerzeel
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 1, 2 and 22
- Wielsbeke
- Zwevezele
- 1987
- Wielsbeke
External links[]
- Rudy Matthijs at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Rudy Matthijs
Categories:
- Belgian male cyclists
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Belgian Tour de France stage winners
- Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners
- Sportspeople from East Flanders
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- People from Eeklo
- Belgian cycling biography, 1950s birth stubs