Wilfried Nelissen
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Wilfried Nelissen |
Date of birth | May 5, 1970 |
Country | Belgium |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Professional team(s) | |
1990–1991 1992 1993–1994 1995–1996 1997 1998 |
Weinmann Panasonic-Sportlife Novemail-Histor Lotto-Isoglass Palmans-Lystex Palmans-Ideal |
Major wins | |
Omloop het Volk (1993, 1994) Tour de France 1993:
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Infobox last updated on: | |
May 15, 2007 |
Wilfried Nelissen (Tongeren, May 5, 1970) is a former Belgium road racing cyclist, known best as a sprinter. Nelissen had to stop his promising career in 1998 because of a knee injury that he got in 1996 after falling down during Ghent-Wevelgem.
[edit] Major victories
- 1991
- Tour of Picardia: Final classification, stage 2
- Tour de Luxembourg Stage 3
- 1992
- Paris-Bourges: Final classification, stage 2
- Tour de Suisse Stages 3 and 6
- Dauphiné Libéré Stages 1 and 3
- Ronde van Nederland Stage 1
- Vuelta a Andalucía Stage 2
- 1993
- Omloop Het Volk
- Tour de France Stage 2, wearing the yellow jersey for three days
- Ronde van Nederland Stages 1, 2 and 4
- 1994
- Belgian road cycling champion
- Omloop Het Volk
- Four Days of Dunkirk Stages 1 and 2
- Étoile de Bessèges Stages 1 and 3
- Tour Méditerranéen Stage 2
- GP d'Isbergues
- 1995
- Belgian road cycling champion
- Paris-Nice Stages 1 and 3
- Four Days of Dunkirk Stage 3
- Ronde van Nederland Stage 3
- Midi Libre Stage 2
- Étoile de Bessèges Stages 1, 3 and 5
- Tour of Picardië Stages 1 and 2
- Route du Sud Stages 1A, 2 and 4
- 1996
- Paris-Nice Stage 2
- Étoile de Bessèges Stages 1, 2 and 3