Éloi Meulenberg

Eloi Meulenberg

Personal information

Full name

Eloi Meulenberg

Born

22 September 1912
Jumet, Belgium

Died

26 February 1989 (aged 76)
Charleroi, Belgium

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Major wins

9 stages Tour de France
1937 World race championship

Medal record

Representing Belgium
Road bicycle racing
World Championships
	1937 Copenhagen	Elite Men's Road Race

Infobox last updated on
19 June 2008

Eloi Meulenberg (22 September 1912 – 26 February 1989) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his gold medal in the Elite race of the 1937 Road World Championships and his 9-stage wins in the Tour de France.

Major results

1935

Grand Prix de Fourmies

1936

Paris–Brussels

Tour de France

Winner Stages 6 and 18a

1937

World Road Race Champion

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Tour de France:

Winner Stages 11a, 13b, 14a & 14c,

1938

Tour de France:

Winner stages 4a, 4b & 5,

1939

Nancy-Les Vosges-Nancy

1943

Scheldeprijs

GP Jordens

GP d'Ougrée

GP Brussels

1945

Ronde van Limburg

GP de la Victoire

External links

Éloi Meulenberg 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: Merckx
1968: Adorni
1969: Ottenbros
1970: Monseré
1971: Merckx
1972: Basso
1973: Gimondi
1974: Merckx
1975: Kuiper
1976: Maertens
1977: Moser
1978: Knetemann
1979: Raas
1980: Hinault
1981: Maertens
1982: Saronni
1983: LeMond
1984: Criquielion
1985: Zoetemelk
1986: Argentin
1987: Roche
1988: Fondriest
1989: LeMond
1990: Dhaenens
1991–92: 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
2015–16: Sagan

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) Wout Poels (2016)

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