Walter Godefroot

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Walter Godefroot (born 2 July 1943) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of the T-Mobile Team, a professional cycling team. In his competitive cycling days, Godefroot was a specialist in the one-day classic cycle races, winning three of the five 'monuments' of cycling: Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1967), Paris-Roubaix (1969), and the Ronde van Vlaanderen (1968, 1978).

Besides winning the green jersey at the 1970 Tour de France, Godefroot was the first rider to win the final stage at the 1975 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées.

During his career, he was disqualified three times because of antidoping controls.

Before the 2006 season, Walter Godefroot stepped down as team manager and retired from cycling and Olaf Ludwig became the new T-Mobile team manager. After the exclusion of Team Astana from the 2006 Tour de France, at the request of Alexandre Vinokourov, Godefroot returned to the peloton when he accepted the management of Team Astana.

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1978
1976
1975 – Flandria
1974
1973 – Carpenter
1972 – Peugeot
1971 – Peugeot
1970 – Salvarani
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
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1964
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