 Dhaenens at the 1989 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rudy Dhaenens | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1961-04-10)10 April 1961 Deinze, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 April 1998(1998-04-06) (aged 36) Aalst, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| 1983–1987 | Splendor–Euro Shop | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1990 | PDM–Ultima–Concorde | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Panasonic–Sportlife | ||||||||||||||
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Belgium
Rudy Dhaenens (10 April 1961 – 6 April 1998) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who is most famous for winning the road race at the 1990 UCI Road World Championships as a member of the Belgian national team.
Dhaenens excelled several times in the Paris–Roubaix classic race; finishing second in 1986 and third the following year. Dhaenens won the 1990 World Championship Road Race, held in Utsunomiya, Japan, ahead of Dirk De Wolf of Belgium and Gianni Bugno of Italy. In 1992, Dhaenens was forced to stop his career because of heart problems. For a long time, he was in the service of the PDM cycling team, usually as tactical captain. Dhaenens was known for his calm, reserved attitude.
He died in 1998, at the age of 36, from head injuries sustained in a car accident in Aalst while driving to the finish of the Tour of Flanders bicycle race. From 1999 to 2007, the Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens was held in his honour in late March, in Nevele, Belgium.
Major results
- 1981
- 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 1983
- 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 1984
- 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Gent–Wevelgem
- 10th Omloop van het Leiedal
- 1985
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
- 4th Trofeo Luis Puig
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 10th Paris–Tours
- 10th De Kustpijl
- 1986
- 1st Stage 11 Tour de France
- 2nd Paris–Roubaix
- 2nd De Kustpijl
- 6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 1
- 7th Gent–Wevelgem
- 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1987
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 4th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 6th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1988
- 4th Omloop Het Volk
- 8th Tour of Flanders
- 8th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1989
- 5th Grand Prix de la Libération (TTT)
- 7th Milan–San Remo
- 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 10th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 10th GP du canton d'Argovie
- 1990
- 1st
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 1st Stage 2a Vuelta a Asturias
- 2nd Tour of Flanders
- 2nd Druivenkoers Overijse
- 3rd Wincanton Classic
- 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Tre Valli Varesine
- 8th GP des Amériques
- 9th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1991
- 3rd Grand Prix Criquielion
- 3rd Grand Prix de la Libération (TTT)
- 10th Road race, National Road Championships
Grand Tours general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | |
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 Vuelta a España
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Did not contest during career | ||||||||||
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | |
| Tour de France
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DNF | DNF | 101 | 122 | DNF | 87 | DNF | 43 | DNF | — | |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Notes
- Samuel Abt (9 April 1998). "Dhaenens:A Modest, Unselfish Cyclist". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
External links
- Rudy Dhaenens at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Rudy Dhaenens at ProCyclingStats
- Official Tour de France results for Rudy Dhaenens
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