Gerard Friedrich "Gerrie" Knetemann was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980.
Maurizio Fondriest is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist.
Stijn Devolder is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally for Vlaanderen–T Interim (2002–2003), Discovery Channel (2004–2007), Quick-Step (2008–2010), Vacansoleil–DCM (2011–2012), Trek–Segafredo (2013–2016), Vérandas Willems–Crelan (2017–2018) and Corendon–Circus (2019).
Giuseppe "Pino" Cerami was a Belgian road bicycle racer. He joined the professional peloton in 1946 as an independent. Born in Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy he was naturalised as a Belgian on 16 March 1956.
Julien Stevens is a retired Belgian cyclist who raced from 1963 to 1977. Stevens spent most part of his career employed to help other riders, such as Rik Van Steenbergen, Rik Van Looy and Eddy Merckx. In 1969, at the road world championship in Zolder he got clear with Dutchman Harm Ottenbros but lost the sprint.
Dries Devenyns is a Belgian retired road bicycle racer, who rode for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. He retired at the end of 2023.
Preben Van Hecke is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the Relax–Bodysol, Predictor–Lotto and Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise. He won the Belgian National Road Race Championships in 2015, out of a two-man breakaway with Jürgen Roelandts.
Willy Planckaert is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. His brothers, Eddy and Walter Planckaert, as well as his son Jo Planckaert, are also former professional road bicycle racers.
Andrej Hauptman is a Slovenian former professional road racing cyclist. In 2001 he became the first Slovenian rider to take a world championship medal in cycling when he won the bronze in the road race at the Road World Championships. After retiring from competition, he became a cycling coach: he is coach of fellow Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogačar and also serves as head coach and head of selectors for the Slovenian national cycling team. He formerly managed Ljubljana Gusto Santic, where as well as guiding Pogačar through his under-23 career he coached Primož Roglič when the latter switched from ski jumping to cycling and rode for the team's development squad. In May 2019 Hauptman joined UAE Team Emirates as a directeur sportif after Pogačar joined the team.
Bert De Waele is a Belgian retired professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2012. He spent his entire career with the Landbouwkrediet–Colnago team through various iterations of team names.
Rik Van Linden is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. He won the points classification in the 1975 Tour de France, ahead of Eddy Merckx.
Carmine Preziosi is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer.
Dave Bruylandts is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. Bruylandts was tested positive for EPO use in 2004 and was banned for 18 months. Following his ban, Bruylandts briefly rode for Unibet.com in 2006 and for the UCI Continental team Klaipėda-Splendid Cyclingteam in 2007. Bruylandts is married to racing cyclist Femke Melis.
Martin Van Den Bossche is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Van Den Bossche finished in the top 10 of the Tour de France twice, and won the Mountains classification of the 1970 Giro d'Italia.
Jos Jacobs is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer.
Cerami is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jonas van Genechten is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for the Verandas Willems (2009–2010), Wallonie Bruxelles–Crédit Agricole (2011), Lotto–Belisol (2012–2014), IAM Cycling (2015–2016), Cofidis (2017) and B&B Hotels p/b KTM (2018–2021) teams. During his professional career, he took eight victories, including the seventh stage at the 2016 Vuelta a España.
Gert Dockx is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI ProTour team Lotto–Soudal.
Moreno Hofland is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2021 for the Rabobank Continental Team, LottoNL–Jumbo, Lotto–Soudal and EF Education–Nippo teams.
Jean-Pierre "Jempy" Drucker is a retired Luxembourgish professional racing cyclist.
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