![]() Swerts c. 1973 | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Roger Swerts | ||||||||||||||
Born | Heusden-Zolder, Belgium | 28 December 1942||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
1965–1967 | Mercier-BP-Hutchinson | ||||||||||||||
1968–1970 | Faema | ||||||||||||||
1971–1973 | Molteni | ||||||||||||||
1974–1975 | IJsboerke–Colner | ||||||||||||||
1976 | Molteni–Campagnolo | ||||||||||||||
1977 | Fiat | ||||||||||||||
1978 | Old Lord's–Splendor–K.S.B. | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Grand Tours | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Roger Swerts (born 28 December 1942) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. As an amateur he placed 18th in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics [1] and won a bronze medal at the 1965 UCI Road World Championships. He turned professional later in 1965. [2]
Grand Tour | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 |
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![]() | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 10 | 29 | — | — | — |
![]() | — | — | — | 25 | — | 53 | 21 | 16 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — |
![]() | 41 | 63 | 54 | — | 44 | 24 | 35 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Monuments results timeline | ||||||||||||||||||
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Monument | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | ||||
Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | — | — | 143 | — | 30 | 34 | 26 | 35 | 55 | — | — | ||||
Tour of Flanders | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | 61 | 6 | — | 14 | 18 | — | — | — | ||||
Paris–Roubaix | — | — | 15 | 29 | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | 7 | 17 | — | — | ||||
Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | 6 | 19 | — | 6 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | ||||
Giro di Lombardia | Did not contest during career | |||||||||||||||||
1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | |
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![]() | 3 | — | — | — | 5 | — | 10 | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | — |
![]() | 37 | 5 | 14 | — | 27 | 18 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 22 | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |