Arthur Decabooter

Arthur Decabooter
Personal information
Decabooter in 2011
Full name	Arthur Decabooter
Nickname	El Toro
Born	(1936-10-03)3 October 1936 Welden, Belgium
Died	26 May 2012(2012-05-26) (aged 75)
Team information
Current team	deceased
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics rider
Major wins
Tour of Flanders 1960 Points classification in the Vuelta a España 1960

Arthur Decabooter (3 October 1936 – 26 May 2012) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist, active as a professional between 1959 and 1967.^[1] Cyclist Walter Godefroot is his wife's brother-in-law.

Apart from a few years when he was signed to Libéria-Grammont (1962) and to Solo (1963–1964), he rode for the Groene Leeuw team. His major wins were the 1960 Tour of Flanders and 2 stages and the points classification in the Vuelta a España the same year. Decabooter's other wins include Dwars door België, Omloop Het Volk, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke, and a stage in the Tour of Belgium.

Palmarès

1959

1960

Kampioenschap van Oost-Vlaanderen
Tour of Flanders
Dwars door België
8th and 15th stage of the Vuelta a España
Points classification in the Vuelta a España
1st stage of the Tour of Belgium

1961

Omloop Het Volk
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke
11th stage of the Vuelta a España
Grand Prix de Denain
GP Briek Schotte

1964

Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne
Omloop van het Houtland

1965

Nokere Koerse

1966

6th and 8th stage of the Vuelta a Andalucía
5th stage (a) of the Four Days of Dunkirk

References

↑ Decabooter kreeg een hartstilstand tijdens een fietstocht. "sporza: Arthur "Tuur" Decabooter (75) is niet meer". Sporza.be. Retrieved 2012-05-26.

External links

Arthur Decabooter profile at Cycling Archives
(French) Palmares of Arthur Decabooter

Vuelta a España points classification winners

Tour of Flanders winners

1900–1919	Paul Deman (1913) Marcel Buysse (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Van Lerberghe (1919)

1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920) René Vermandel (1921) Léon Devos (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Gérard Debaets (1924) Julien Delbecque (1925) Denis Verschueren (1926) Gérard Debaets (1927) Jan Mertens (1928) Joseph Dervaes (1929) Frans Bonduel (1930) Romain Gijssels (1931–1932) Alphonse Schepers (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934) Louis Duerloo (1935) Louis Hardiquest (1936) Michel D'Hooghe (1937) Edgard de Caluwé (1938) Karel Kaers (1939)

1940–1959	Achiel Buysse (1940–1941) Briek Schotte (1942) Achiel Buysse (1943) Rik Van Steenbergen (1944) Sylvain Grysolle (1945) Rik Van Steenbergen (1946) Emiel Faignaert (1947) Briek Schotte (1948) Fiorenzo Magni (1949–1951) Roger Decock (1952) Wim van Est (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Louison Bobet (1955) Jean Forestier (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Germain Derycke (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)

1960–1979	Arthur Decabooter (1960) Tom Simpson (1961) Rik Van Looy (1962) Noël Foré (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Jo de Roo (1965) Edward Sels (1966) Dino Zandegù (1967) Walter Godefroot (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Eric Leman (1970) Evert Dolman (1971) Eric Leman (1972–1973) Cees Bal (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Walter Planckaert (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Walter Godefroot (1978) Jan Raas (1979)

1980–1999	Michel Pollentier (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) René Martens (1982) Jan Raas (1983) Johan Lammerts (1984) Eric Vanderaerden (1985) Adri van der Poel (1986) Claude Criquielion (1987) Eddy Planckaert (1988) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1989) Moreno Argentin (1990) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1991) Jacky Durand (1992) Johan Museeuw (1993) Gianni Bugno (1994) Johan Museeuw (1995) Michele Bartoli (1996) Rolf Sørensen (1997) Johan Museeuw (1998) Peter Van Petegem (1999)

2000–2019	Andrei Tchmil (2000) Gianluca Bortolami (2001) Andrea Tafi (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Steffen Wesemann (2004) Tom Boonen (2005–2006) Alessandro Ballan (2007) Stijn Devolder (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Nick Nuyens (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013–2014) Alexander Kristoff (2015) Peter Sagan (2016)

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