Walter Godefroot
 Godefroot in 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Walter Godefroot | |||||||||||||
| Born | 2 July 1943 Ghent, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
| Role | Manager | |||||||||||||
| Rider type | One-day specialist | |||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||
| 1965–1966 | Wiel's–Groene Leeuw | |||||||||||||
| 1967–1969 | Flandria–De Clerck | |||||||||||||
| 1970 | Salvarani | |||||||||||||
| 1971–1972 | Peugeot–BP–Michelin | |||||||||||||
| 1973–1975 | Flandria–Carpenter–Shimano | |||||||||||||
| 1976–1979 | IJsboerke–Colnago | |||||||||||||
| Managerial teams | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–2005 | Team Telekom | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | Astana–Würth | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | Astana | |||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1967) 10 stages, Tour de France Green jersey, Tour de France (1970) Tour of Flanders (1968, 1978) Paris–Roubaix (1969) Bordeaux–Paris (1969, 1976) 1 stage, Giro d'Italia (1970) 2 stages, Vuelta a España (1971)  National Champion | ||||||||||||||
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Walter Godefroot (born 2 July 1943) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile Team, professional team. He won a bronze medal in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1]
Godefroot was a specialist in one-day classic cycle races, winning the Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1967), Paris–Roubaix (1969), and the Tour of Flanders (1968, 1978). Besides winning the green jersey at the 1970 Tour de France, Godefroot was the first to win the final stage on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France.
Godefroot was disqualified three times for doping. On 25 May 2007 Bjarne Riis, winner of the 1996 Tour de France and member of Team Telekom of which Godefroot was coach, admitted using EPO. Riis claims Godefroot turned a blind eye to drug use on the team.[2]
Godefroot stepped down as team manager before the 2006 season. Olaf Ludwig became manager. After the exclusion of Astana–Würth from the 2006 Tour de France, Godefroot returned to the peloton when he became manager of Astana. His contract was not renewed when it ran out in July 2007.[3]
In his racing days he was called 'The Bulldog of Flanders'.
Major results[]
- 1964
– Summer Olympics Men's Road Race- 1965
Belgium National Road Race Championship- 1966
- 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé
- 2nd, Omloop Het Volk
- 1967
- Stage 1 – Tour de France
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1968
- Tour de France
- Stage 3b win
- Stage 9 win
- 2nd, Points Classification
- Tour of Flanders
- Gent–Wevelgem
- 2nd, Paris–Tours
- 3rd, Paris–Roubaix
- 1969
- Bordeaux–Paris
- Paris–Roubaix
- Scheldeprijs
- 1970 – Salvarani
- Tour de France
Winner points classification- Winner stages 4 and 5A
- Stage 8 – Giro d'Italia
- Züri-Metzgete
- 2nd, Tour of Flanders
- 2nd overall, Tour of Belgium
- 1971 – Peugeot
- Stage 9 – Tour de France
- Stage 7 – Vuelta a España
- Stage 8 – Vuelta a España
- 1972 – Peugeot
- Belgium National Road Race Championship
- Stage 5a – Tour de France
- 1973 – Carpenter
- Tour de France
- Stage 5 win
- Stage 16a win
- 2nd, Paris–Roubaix
- 1974
- Rund um den Henninger Turm
- Züri-Metzgete
- Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1975 – Flandria
- Stage 22 (Champs-Élysées) – 1975 Tour de France
- 1976
- Bordeaux–Paris
- 1978
- Tour of Flanders
References[]
- ^ "Walter Godefroot Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- ^ "Former Tour de France winner Riis admits doping". 25 May 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
- ^ "Astana und Godefroot gehen getrennte Wege". Der Spiegel (in German). Sport-Informations-Dienst. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Belgian male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of Belgium
- Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium
- Belgian Tour de France stage winners
- Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners
- Belgian Vuelta a España stage winners
- Sportspeople from Ghent
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics