Éloi Meulenberg
Appearance
![]() Meulenberg in 1939 | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | Jumet, Belgium | 22 September 1912||||||||||||||
Died | 26 February 1989 Charleroi, Belgium | (aged 76)||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
1934 | Independent | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
1934–40 | Alcyon-Dunlop | ||||||||||||||
1941–42 | Individual | ||||||||||||||
1943 | Helyett-Hutchinson | ||||||||||||||
1944 | Jordens | ||||||||||||||
1946–47 | Rochet-Dunlop | ||||||||||||||
1948 | Peugeot-Dunlop | ||||||||||||||
1948 | Météore and Elvé-Peugeot | ||||||||||||||
1948 | Peugeot-Dunlop | ||||||||||||||
1949–50 | ? | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Eloi Meulenberg (22 September 1912 – 26 February 1989) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.[1] He is best known for his gold medal in the Elite Race of the 1937 Road World Championships and his nine stage wins in the Tour de France.[2][3]
![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tour_de_France_de_1936_-_106.jpg/260px-Tour_de_France_de_1936_-_106.jpg)
Major results
[edit]- 1932
- 1st Stage 9 Tour of Belgium Independents
- 1934
- 1st Brussels-Liège (fr)
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ouest
- 1935
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 2nd 1935 Tour of Flanders
- 1936
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 6 & 18a
- 3rd Circuit de Paris
- 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 10th La Flèche Wallonne
- 1937
- 1st
Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde
- 1st Omloop Groot Oostende
- 1st Bergen op Zoom
- 1st Critérium de Zürich
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 11a, 13b, 14a & 14c
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
- 1938
- 1st G.P d'Auvelais
- 1st Critérium de Namur
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 4a, 4b & 5
- 8th Paris–Brussels
- 10th Paris–Tours
- 1939
- 1st Nancy-Les Vosges-Nancy
- 1st Championship of Hainaut
- 1943
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- 1st GP Jordens
- 1st GP d'Ougrée
- 1st GP Brussels
- 1942
- 1st Marcinelle
- 1st Seraing
- 1943
- 1st Championship of Brabant
- 1945
- 1st Ronde van Limburg[clarification needed]
- 1st GP de la Victoire
- 1st Bonheiden
- 1st Châtelineau
- 1st Keumiée
- 1st Wavre
References
[edit]- ^ "Eloi Meulenberg". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
- ^ "Palmarès d'Eloi Meulenberg (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Eloi Meulenberg". ProcyclingStats. 2023.
External links
[edit]- Éloi Meulenberg at Cycling Archives