Edwig Van Hooydonck

Edwig Van Hooydonck
Personal information
Full name	Edwig Van Hooydonck
Born	(1966-08-04) 4 August 1966 Ekeren, Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1986	Kwantum Hallen-Yoko
1987–1989	Superconfex-Yoko
1990–1992	Buckler
1993–1994	Wordperfect
1995	Novell
1996	Rabobank
Major wins
Tour of Flanders (1989, 1991) Vuelta a España, 1 stage Brabantse Pijl (1987, 1991, 1993, 1995)

Edwig Van Hooydonck (born 4 August 1966 in Ekeren) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He won the prestigious Tour of Flanders twice and Brabantse Pijl four times. He retired from professional cycling because he felt he could no longer compete with other cyclists, who were at the time starting to dope themselves, without himself cheating too. At this time Erythropoietin (EPO) was becoming a widely used doping agent in the sport.^[1]^[2]

One minor innovation in cycling credited to Van Hooydonk are three quarter length bibshorts. After he had aggravated a knee problem during the 1989 Tour of Flanders, he had cycling shorts made that stretched below the knee, as an alternative to bandaging the knee.^[3]^[4]

Major achievements

1986

1st, Tour of Flanders U23

1987

1st, Brabantse Pijl

1st, Stage 5, Ronde van Nederland

1988

1st, Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

1st, Overall, Vuelta a Andalucía

1st, Prologue

1st, Stage 4, Tour Méditerranéen

1989

1st, Grand Prix de Denain

1st, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1st, Tour of Flanders

1990

1st, Dwars door Vlaanderen

1991

1st, Brabantse Pijl

1st, Grand Prix de la Libération

1st, Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

1st, Tour of Flanders

1st, Schaal Sels

1992

1st, Grand Prix de Denain

1st, Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

1st, Stage 4, Étoile de Bessèges

1st, Stage 3, Tour of Ireland

1st, Stage 6, Vuelta a España

1993

1st, Brabantse Pijl

1st, Stage 2, Tour de Romandie

1st, Stage 3b, Tour de Luxembourg

1995

1st, Brabantse Pijl

References

↑ inrng.com
↑ Velominati › Awesome Belgian Guys: Edwig Van Hooydonk Sep 3 2012
↑ cycling 3/4 Bib Shorts | Rapha
↑ The Bosberg SATURDAY, 2 APRIL 2011 inrng.com

External links

Palmarès by cyclingbase.com

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)

Lanternes Rouges of the Tour de France

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