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Marcel Kint Personal information Full name Marcel Kint Born 20 September 1914
BelgiumDied 23 March 2002 (aged 87)Team information Discipline Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 1935
1936
1937
1937-1938
1938-1939
1939
1940-1950
1950-1951
1951Independent (semi-professional)
Mercier-Hutchinson-Leducq
Pélissier
Mercier-Hutchinson-Leducq
Pélissier
Mercier-Hutchinson-Leducq
Mercier-Hutchinson
Girardengo
Mercier-HutchinsonMajor wins 1938 World Road Race championships Medal recordCompetitor for Belgium Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1938 Valkenburg Elite Men's Road Race Silver 1946 Zürich Elite Men's Road Race Infobox last updated on
26 June 2008Marcel 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.
Major wins
- 1936
- Antwerpen-Gent-Antwerpen
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 19
- 9th place overall classification
- 1938
- Unofficial Season Long Competition
- World Road Racing Champion
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 15, 16 and 18
- 9th place overall classification
- Paris–Brussels
- 2nd – Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd – Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 1939
- Antwerpen-Gent-Antwerpen
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 8A and 18B
- Belgian National Road Race Championships
- 1943
- La Flèche Wallonne
- Paris–Roubaix
- 1944
- La Flèche Wallonne
- 1945
- La Flèche Wallonne
- 1949
- Gent–Wevelgem
External links
- Marcel Kint profile at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Marcel Kint
Sporting positions Preceded by
Émile Masson Jr. (1939)Winner of Paris–Roubaix
1943Succeeded by
Maurice DesimpelaereReferences
- ^ http://velopalmares.free.fr/kint.htm Velopalmares: Sterckx
Categories:- 1914 births
- 2002 deaths
- Belgian cyclists
- Belgian Tour de France stage winners
- UCI World Champions
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