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Full name
  
Rudy Dhaenens

Discipline
  
Road


Name
  
Rudy Dhaenens

Role
  
Bicycler

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Born
  
10 April 1961 Belgium (
1961-04-10
)

Died
  
April 6, 1998, Aalst, Belgium

1990 World Cycling Championships Finish


1990 World Championship Road Race, part 3


Rudy Dhaenens (Deinze 10 April 1961 – Aalst 6 April 1998) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who is most famous for winning the World Cycling Championships in 1990 as a member of the Belgian national team.

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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.

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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.

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Tour de France record

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  • 1985: 101st overall
  • 1986: 122nd overall; 1 stage win
  • 1988: 87th overall
  • 1990: 43rd overall
  • References

    Rudy Dhaenens Wikipedia