Joseph Bruyère

Joseph Bruyère
Personal information
Full name	Joseph Bruyère
Born	(1948-10-05) 5 October 1948 Maastricht, the Netherlands
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
One stage Tour de France Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1976, 1978)
Infobox last updated on 1 July 2008

Joseph Bruyere or Bruyère (born 5 October 1948 in Maastricht, Netherlands) is a former Belgian cyclist.

Major wins

1969: Flèche Ardennaise for amateurs
1971: Tour of East-Flanders
1972: 19th stage Tour de France
1974: Omloop Het Volk; Prologue Paris–Nice
1975: Tour Méditerranéen; Omloop Het Volk
1976: Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1978: Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1980: Omloop Het Volk

Tour de France

1970 - 50th
1971 - 60th
1972 - 26th; winner of 19th stage
1974 - 21st (4 days in the yellow jersey)
1978 - 4th (8 days in the yellow jersey)

Teams

1970 - Faemino-Faema
1971 - Molteni
1972 - Molteni
1973 - Molteni
1974 - Molteni
1975 - Molteni
1976 - Molteni
1977 - Fiat France
1978 - C & A
1979 - Flandria-Velda
1980 - Marc-V.R.D.

Team mate of Eddy Merckx

Bruyere rode several seasons as the strongest, and most loyal team mate, to the super-star rider Eddy Merckx.

After Merckx retired from racing Bruyere tried to take over from Merckx as a big star, but he wasn't able to, having given his best years to the service of Merckx.

External links

Palmarès
Joseph Bruyère profile at Cycling Archives

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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