Hendrik "Rik" Van Steenbergen (9 September 1924 – 15 May 2003) was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of...
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Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen (previously GP Rik Van Steenbergen) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Arendonk, Belgium. The...
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cycling legends: namely established value Rik Van Steenbergen at the beginning of Van Looy's career. Conversely, Van Looy had to face the generational change...
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by Rik Van Steenbergen, a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 1942 and 1966. Van Steenbergen is...
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most popular riders of his generation, together with Rik Van Steenbergen and the young Rik Van Looy. At the opening of the 1956 Antwerp track season...
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Tour of Flanders (men) (redirect from Ronde van vlaanderen)
Buysse became the first rider to win three times. Briek Schotte and Rik Van Steenbergen gained two victories and became the leading figures of Belgian cycling...
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and a French): Georges Ronsse (Belgium, 1928–29); Rik Van Steenbergen (Belgium, 1956–57); Rik Van Looy (Belgium, 1960–61); Gianni Bugno (Italy, 1991–92);...
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third rider to ever be world champion three times, after Binda and Rik Van Steenbergen. With victories at Milan–San Remo and Amstel Gold Race, Merckx opened...
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Mathieu van der Poel (born 19 January 1995) is a Belgian-born Dutch professional cyclist who rides for the UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck. He competes...
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plaque to commemorate a winner. These include Peter Van Petegem, Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, Rik Van Looy and Fausto Coppi. When I stand in the showers...
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midfielder Quinta Steenbergen (born 1985), Dutch volleyball player Rik Van Steenbergen (1924–2003), Belgian cyclist Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen, a single-day...
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Only three riders have won all five monument races during their careers: Rik Van Looy, Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck, all three Belgians, and only...
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windmill (Heimolen) as well as the cycling race called Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen and Aartselaar BBC, the official basketball club of the town. The...
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Solo–Superia (redirect from Solo-Van Steenbergen)
1965 Paris–Roubaix with Rik Van Looy and the 1966 Tour of Flanders with Edward Sels. Source: Elfstedenronde, Rik Van Steenbergen Tour de Luxembourg Stage...
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cyclist Rik Van Steenbergen (1924–2003), Belgian cyclist Rik Vandenberghe (born 1953), Belgian sprinter Rik Verbrugghe (born 1974), Belgian cyclist Rik Vercoe...
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of Belgian cyclist Rik Van Steenbergen, in 1962 he moved to Belgium, where he worked at the Port of Antwerp. With Van Steenbergen, he competed in several...
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earlier, he was the only Belgian to refuse to do work for team leader Rik Van Looy (who eventually became world champion). Daems finished 19th. In the...
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1947) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist. He was described by Rik Van Looy as "The most talented and the only real classics rider of his generation"...
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Profronde van Friesland 8th Omloop Het Volk 2008 1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges 2nd Ronde van Drenthe 2nd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen...
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Genk. The competition's roll of honor includes the successes of Rik Van Steenbergen. The record of victories, however, belongs to Willy Vannitsen. "Circuit...
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won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx and Peter Sagan. In the later years of his career, he...
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2003 1st Omloop Het Volk 1st Stage 3 Danmark Rundt 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 7th Gent–Wevelgem 2004 5th Paris–Roubaix Criteriums 1988 1st GP Briek...
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Championships, where he took bronze in the road race behind Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. To finish his season, Pogacar won the 2023 Il Lombardia...
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victories puts him behind Eddy Merckx (525) and Rik Van Looy (379), but ahead of Rik Van Steenbergen (270) and Roger De Vlaeminck (255). He was also an...
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Milan–San Remo 1997 1st Paris–Tours 1st Dwars door België 1st GP Rik Van Steenbergen 1st Druivenkoers Overijse 2nd Gent–Wevelgem 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau...
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1st Gent–Wevelgem 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 1st Scheldeprijs 1st GP Rik Van Steenbergen Tour de France 1st Stages 6 & 20 Deutschland Tour 1st Stages 2 &...
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Rik Van Steenbergen (12). 1955: Rik Van Steenbergen & Stan Ockers 1955-1960: Not organised 1961: Rik Van Steenbergen & Emile Severeyns 1962: Rik Van Steenbergen...
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Coppi "set the pace" in drug-taking, said his contemporary Wim van Est. Rik Van Steenbergen said Coppi was "the first I knew who took drugs". That didn't...
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Nokere Koerse 9th GP Rik Van Steenbergen 9th Schaal Sels 2003 1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie 2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden...
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event of the 2024 UCI World Tour. The race was won by Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin–Deceuninck for the second year in succession, after a...
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