Marcel Kint
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Medal record | |||
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Competitor for Belgium | |||
Road bicycle racing | |||
World Championships | |||
Gold | 1938 Valkenburg | Elite Men's Road Race | |
Silver | 1946 Zürich | Elite Men's Road Race |
Marcel Kint (Zwevegem, 20 September 1914 – Kortrijk, 23 March 2002) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won 31 races[1] between 1935 and 1951. His finest year was 1938 when he won the World Cycling Championship, three stages of the Tour de France and the season-long competition equivalent to today's UCI ProTour.
He specialized in one-day classic cycle races and won Paris-Roubaix, Gent-Wevelgem, Paris-Brussels. He is the only three-time consecutive winner of La Flèche Wallonne.
[edit] Major wins
- 1936
- Antwerpen-Gent-Antwerpen
- Stage 19 – Tour de France
- 1938
- Unofficial Season Long Competition
- World Road Racing Champion
- Stage 15 – Tour de France
- Stage 16 – Tour de France
- Stage 18 – Tour de France
- Paris-Brussels
- 2nd – Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- 3rd – Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 1939
- Antwerpen-Gent-Antwerpen
- Stage 8 – Tour de France
- Stage 18 – Tour de France
- Belgium National Road Race Cycling Champion
- 1944
- La Flèche Wallonne
- 1945
- La Flèche Wallonne
- 1949
- Gent-Wevelgem
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by Eloi Meulenberg |
World Road Racing Champion 1938 |
Succeeded by Hans Knecht 1946 |
Preceded by Emile Masson jr. (1939) |
Winner of Paris-Roubaix 1943 |
Succeeded by Maurice Desimpelaere |
[edit] References
- ^ http://velopalmares.free.fr/kint.htm Velopalmares: Sterckx