Marcel Kint

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of Belgium 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 1914Kortrijk, 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
Flag of Belgium Belgium National Road Race Cycling Champion
1943
La Flèche Wallonne
Paris-Roubaix
1944
La Flèche Wallonne
1945
La Flèche Wallonne
1949
Gent-Wevelgem
Sporting positions
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

  1. ^ http://velopalmares.free.fr/kint.htm Velopalmares: Sterckx