Edwig Van Hooydonck

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Edwig Van Hooydonck
Personal information
Full nameEdwig Van Hooydonck
Born (1966-08-04) 4 August 1966 (age 57)
Ekeren, Belgium
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Professional team
1986–1996 Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 Individual stage (1992)

One-day races and Classics

Tour of Flanders (1989, 1991)
Brabantse Pijl (1987, 1991, 1993, 1995)

Edwig Van Hooydonck (born 4 August 1966 in Ekeren) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He won the prestigious Tour of Flanders twice and Brabantse Pijl four times. Van Hooydonck retired from professional cycling because he felt he could no longer compete with other cyclists, who were at the time starting to dope themselves, without himself cheating too. At this time Erythropoietin (EPO) was becoming a widely used doping agent in the sport. [1] [2] He is the uncle of former professional cyclist Nathan Van Hooydonck.

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One minor innovation in cycling credited to Van Hooydonk are three quarter length bibshorts. After he had aggravated a knee problem during the 1989 Tour of Flanders, he had cycling shorts made that stretched below the knee, as an alternative to bandaging the knee. [3] [4]

Major results

1984
1st MaillotBelgica.PNG Road race, National Junior Road Championships
1985
7th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
1986
1st Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
2nd Paris–Troyes
3rd Flèche Ardennaise
5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1987
1st Brabantse Pijl
2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
3rd Le Samyn
5th Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 5 (TTT)
5th Overall Classic Brugge–De Panne
5th Paris–Roubaix
5th Züri-Metzgete
10th Grand Prix des Nations
10th Nokere Koerse
1988
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Prologue
1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
3rd Overall Tour of Sweden
4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
1st Stage 3
4th Brabantse Pijl
5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
8th Firenze–Pistoia
10th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt
1989
1st Tour of Flanders
1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
1st Grand Prix de Denain
2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
3rd Paris–Roubaix
4th Druivenkoers Overijse
5th Circuit des Frontières
5th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt
7th Brabantse Pijl
8th Overall Classic Brugge–De Panne
1990
1st Dwars door België
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Omloop Het Volk
3rd Paris–Roubaix
4th Druivenkoers Overijse
7th Brabantse Pijl
1991
1st Tour of Flanders
1st Brabantse Pijl
1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
1st Schaal Sels
1st Grand Prix de la Libération (TTT)
3rd Omloop Het Volk
3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
4th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
5th Züri-Metzgete
9th Overall Tour de l'Oise
9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
9th Circuit des Frontières
9th Grand Prix des Amériques
1992
1st Grand Prix de Denain
1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 3 (ITT) Étoile de Bessèges
3rd Tour of Flanders
4th Overall Tour of Ireland
1st Stage 3
4th Brabantse Pijl
6th Road race, National Road Championships
7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
10th Paris–Tours
1993
1st Brabantse Pijl
1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 3b (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg
2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
3rd Overall Tour de l'Oise
3rd Overall Classic Brugge–De Panne
3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
5th Druivenkoers Overijse
6th Paris–Roubaix
7th Tour of Flanders
8th Grand Prix des Nations
10th Road race, National Road Championships
1994
4th Road race, National Road Championships
5th Brabantse Pijl
8th Tour du Haut Var
8th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
9th Tour of Flanders
9th Druivenkoers Overijse
1995
1st Brabantse Pijl
2nd Omloop Het Volk
2nd Binche–Chimay–Binche
3rd Clásica de Almería
3rd Druivenkoers Overijse
5th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
7th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
1996
2nd Brabantse Pijl
2nd Dwars door België
5th Omloop Het Volk
9th Trofeo Laigueglia

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References

  1. inrng.com
  2. Velominati › Awesome Belgian Guys: Edwig Van Hooydonk 3 Sep 2012
  3. "Buy cycling 3/4 Bib Shorts | Rapha". Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2012. cycling 3/4 Bib Shorts | Rapha
  4. The Bosberg SATURDAY, 2 APRIL 2011 inrng.com