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Personal information | |
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Full name | Frans Van Looy |
Born | Merksem, Belgium | 26 August 1950
Died | 20 September 2019 69) Merksem, Belgium | (aged
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
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Rider type | Sprinter |
Professional teams | |
1972–1973 | Novy–Dubble Bubble |
1974 | Carpenter–Confortluxe–Flandria |
1975–1976 | Molteni–RYC |
1977 | Maes Pils–Mini-Flat |
1978 | Mini-Flat–Boule d'Or |
1979 | Kas–Campagnolo |
1980–1981 | Vermeer Thijs–Mini-Flat |
1982 | Europ Decor |
Managerial teams | |
1983 | Perlav–Eurosoap |
1984–1987 | TeVe Blad–Eddy Merckx |
1988–1991 | Histor–Sigma |
1992–2006 | Team Telekom |
Frans Van Looy (26 August 1950 – 20 September 2019) was a Belgian cyclist. Looy was professional from 1972 to 1982. He competed in the individual road race at the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1]
After his career as a cyclist, Van Looy worked as a team manager with Team Telekom and T-Mobile until 2006 and had helped run his family's farm in Merksem. However, a local government order ruled that Van Looy could no longer live at the farm, despite a petition signed by 3,000 people to preserve the residence that Van Looy had been born in. [2] After this order, which ruled his birthplace to be uninhabitable and led to his eviction, he committed suicide in September 2019. [3]
Grand Tour | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | |
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![]() | Did not contest during his career | ||||||
![]() | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | |
![]() | 99 | — | — | — | — | DNF |
DSQ | Disqualified |
DNF | Did not finish |
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