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| Born | 6 March 1957 Leuven, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1979–1980 | Marc Zeep Savon–Superia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Vermeer Thijs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1987 | Guerciotti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | AD Renting–Mini-Flat–Enerday | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Flanders–Santin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | IOC–Tulip Computers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Rocket Productions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roland Liboton (born 6 March 1957) is a Belgian former cyclo-cross racer. Liboton won the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 1980, 1982, 1983, and 1984, was the Belgian national champion for a record of ten successive years from 1980 to 1989. [1] He also won the Superprestige in 1985, 1986 and 1988. [2] In total, Liboton won 65 major cyclo-cross races. [3]
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Liboton also occasionally competed in road races, having ridden in the 1981 Tour de France. He retired from professional competition in 1992. [4]
In 2002, Roland Liboton was introduced in the UCI Cycling Hall of Fame [5]
Liboton became honoray citizen of Aarschot, Belgium in 2023. [6]
