Stan Ockers

Stan Ockers (1951)

Personal information

Full name

Constant Ockers

Born

3 February 1920
Belgium

Died

1 October 1956 (aged 36)

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Rider type

Sprinter

Professional team(s)

1941

Individual

1942

Helyett

1943–1945

Metropole

1946

Metropole-Dunlop

1947

Groene Leeuw and Mondia

1948–1949

Mondia and Garin-Wolber

1950

Metropole-Dunlop and Terrot-Wolber

1951

Girardengo and Terrot-Wolber

1952

Peugeot-Dunlop and Girardengo-Clement

1953

Peugeot-Dunlop and Girardengo

1954

Girardengo-Eldorado and Peugeot-Dunlop

1955

Elvé-Peugeot

1956

Elvé-Peugeot and Gardengo-Icep

Major wins

Tour de France green jersey (1955, 1956)
World Road Championship (1955)
La Flèche Wallonne (1953, 1955)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1955)

Medal record

Road bicycle racing
Competitor for Belgium
World Championships
	1955 Frascati	Professional road race
	1953 Lugano	Professional road race

Infobox last updated on
3 January 2008

Constant ("Stan") Ockers (3 February 1920, Borgerhout – 1 October 1956, Antwerp) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist.

He was runner-up in the Tour de France in 1950 and 1952, and the best sprinter in that race in 1955 and 1956. In 1955 he won the Classic "Ardennes double" by winning La Flèche Wallonne and the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in the same year. At this time the races were run on successive days as "Le Weekend Ardennais". He also won the World Cycling Championship that year.

Stan Ockers died after crashing during a track race in Antwerp in 1956. A year later a monument was built in Les Forges, Sprimont, in the south of Belgium.

Palmarès

Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 1955, 2nd 1956, 3rd (1952, 1953)
Trophée Gentil: 1955
World road champion 1955
Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1955
Flèche Wallonne 1953, 1955
Weekend Ardennais 1955
Tour of Belgium 1948
Rome–Naples–Rome 1956
Grand Prix de l'Escaut 1941, 1946
3 stages Tour de France
Points Classification Tour de France 1955, 1956
2nd Tour de France 1950, 1952
2nd Paris–Roubaix 1954
2nd Tour of Flanders 1956
2nd Bordeaux–Paris 1956
2nd Tour de Suisse 1955
2nd Bruxelles-Couvin 1956
2nd Critérium des As 1952, 1953
2nd Circuit des Ardennes Flamandes 1948
2nd Grand Prix Martini 1955, 1956

External links

Stan Ockers profile at Cycling Archives

UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race

1927: Binda
1928–29: Ronsse
1930: Binda
1931: Guerra
1932: Binda
1933: Speicher
1934: Kaers
1935: Aerts
1936: Magne
1937: Meulenberg
1938: Kint
1946: Knecht
1947: Middelkamp
1948: Schotte
1949: Van Steenbergen
1950: Schotte
1951: Kübler
1952: Müller
1953: Coppi
1954: Bobet
1955: Ockers
1956–57: Van Steenbergen
1958: Baldini
1959: Darrigade
1960–61: Van Looy
1962: Stablinski
1963: Beheyt
1964: Janssen
1965: Simpson
1966: Altig
1967: E. Merckx
1968: Adorni
1969: Ottenbros
1970: Monseré
1971: E. Merckx
1972: M. Basso
1973: Gimondi
1974: E. Merckx
1975: Kuiper
1976: Maertens
1977: F. Moser
1978: Knetemann
1979: Raas
1980: B. Hinault
1981: Maertens
1982: Saronni
1983: LeMond
1984: Criquielion
1985: Zoetemelk
1986: Argentin
1987: S. Roche
1988: Fondriest
1989: LeMond
1990: Dhaenens
1991: Bugno–92: Bugno
1993: Armstrong
1994: Leblanc
1995: Olano
1996: Museeuw
1997: Brochard
1998: Camenzind
1999: Freire
2000: Vainšteins
2001: Freire
2002: Cipollini
2003: Astarloa
2004: Freire
2005: Boonen
2006–07: Bettini
2008: Ballan
2009: Evans
2010: Hushovd
2011: Cavendish
2012: Gilbert
2013: Costa
2014: Kwiatkowski
2015: Sagan

Tour de France points classification winners

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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