Willy Bocklant

Willy Bocklant
Personal information
Bocklant in 1967
Full name	Willy Bocklant
Born	(1941-01-26)26 January 1941 Bellegem, Belgium
Died	6 June 1985(1985-06-06) (aged 44) Mouscron, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1962	Gritzner-Veith
1963–1965	Flandria
1966	Mann-Grundig
1967	Flandria
1968–1969	Pull Over Centrale-Tasmanie
Major wins
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1964) Tour de Romandie (1963)

Willy Bocklant (January 26, 1941 – June 6, 1985) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist active as a professional between 1962 and 1969. Among his biggest victories are the 1964 edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the overall classification of the Tour de Romandie in 1963. Bocklant was born in Bellegem and died in Mouscron.

Palmarès

Date	Placing	Event	Competition	Location	Country
000000001960-01-01-00001960	1	Overall	Circuit Franco-Belge	Roubaix	Belgium
000000001960-01-01-00001960	1	Stage 1	Triptyque Ardennaise	Rotheux	Belgium
000000001960-01-01-00001960	1	Stage 3	Triptyque Ardennaise	Pepinster	Belgium
000000001960-01-01-00001960	1	Overall	Triptyque Ardennaise	Pepinster	Belgium
000000001961-01-01-00001961	1		GP Stan Ockers		France
000000001963-01-01-00001963	1		GP Stan Ockers		France
000000001963-01-01-00001963	1		Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen		Belgium
000000001963-01-01-00001963	1	Overall	Tour de Romandie		Switzerland
000000001964-01-01-00001964	1		Giro del Piemonte		Italy
000000001964-01-01-00001964	1		Weekend Ardennais		Belgium
000000001964-01-01-00001964	1		Antwerp–Ougrée		Belgium
000000001964-01-01-00001964	1		Liège–Bastogne–Liège	Liège	Belgium
000000001964-01-01-00001964	1		GP de la Basse-Sambre	Auvelais	Belgium
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1		Circuit des régions frontalières Mouscron		Belgium
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1		Grand Prix d'Isbergues		France
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1	Stage 3	Tour du Nord	Anzin	France
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1	Stage 2	Paris–Nice	Château-Chinon	France
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1		Brabantse Pijl		Belgium
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1	Stage 2	Tour de Romandie	Bassecourt	Switzerland
000000001965-01-01-00001965	1		Brussels–Ingooigem	Ingooigem	Belgium
000000001967-01-01-00001967	1		E3 Prijs Vlaanderen	Harelbeke	Belgium
000000001968-01-01-00001968	1	Stage 5	Tour du Nord	Roubaix	France

External links

Willy Bocklant profile at Cycling Archives

Liège–Bastogne–Liège winners

1880–1899	Léon Houa (1892–1894) (1895–1907, not held)

1900–1919	André Trousselier (1908) Victor Fastre (1909) (1910, not held) Joseph Van Daele (1911) Omer Verschoore (1912) Maurice Moritz (1913) (1914–1918, not held) Léon Devos (1919)

1920–1939	Léon Scieur (1920) Louis Mottiat (1921–1922) René Vermandel (1923–1924) Georges Ronsse (1925) Dieudonné Smets (1926) Maurice Raes (1927) Ernest Mottard (1928) Alphonse Schepers (1929) Hermann Buse (1930) Alphonse Schepers (1931) Marcel Houyoux (1932) François Gardier (1933) Théo Herckenrath (1934) Alphonse Schepers (1935) Albert Beckaert (1936) Éloi Meulenberg (1937) Alfons Deloor (1938) Albert Ritserveldt (1939)

1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Richard Depoorter (1943) (1944, not held) Jan Engels (1945) Prosper Depredomme (1946) Richard Depoorter (1947) Maurice Mollin (1948) Camille Danguillaume (1949) Prosper Depredomme (1950) Ferdinand Kübler (1951–1952) Alois De Hertog (1953) Marcel Ernzer (1954) Stan Ockers (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Frans Schoubben and Germain Derycke (1957) Fred De Bruyne (1958–1959)

1960–1979	Albertus Geldermans (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961) Jef Planckaert (1962) Frans Melckenbeeck (1963) Willy Bocklant (1964) Carmine Preziosi (1965) Jacques Anquetil (1966) Walter Godefroot (1967) Valere Van Sweevelt (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Roger De Vlaeminck (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1973) Georges Pintens (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Joseph Bruyère (1976) Bernard Hinault (1977) Joseph Bruyère (1978) Dietrich Thurau (1979)

1980–1999	Bernard Hinault (1980) Josef Fuchs (1981) Silvano Contini (1982) Steven Rooks (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Moreno Argentin (1985–1987) Adri van der Poel (1988) Sean Kelly (1989) Eric Van Lancker (1990) Moreno Argentin (1991) Dirk De Wolf (1992) Rolf Sørensen (1993) Evgeni Berzin (1994) Mauro Gianetti (1995) Pascal Richard (1996) Michele Bartoli (1997–1998) Frank Vandenbroucke (1999)

2000–2019	Paolo Bettini (2000) Oscar Camenzind (2001) Paolo Bettini (2002) Tyler Hamilton (2003) Davide Rebellin (2004) Alexander Vinokourov (2005) Alejandro Valverde (2006) Danilo Di Luca (2007) Alejandro Valverde (2008) Andy Schleck (2009) Alexander Vinokourov (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Maxim Iglinsky (2012) Dan Martin (2013) Simon Gerrans (2014) Alejandro Valverde (2015)

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