Eric Vanderaerden
 Vanderaerden at the 1993 Tour de France | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Eric Vanderaerden |
| Born |
11 February 1962 Lummen, Belgium |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Major wins | |
| |
Eric Vanderaerden (born 11 February 1962) is a retired road cyclist from the town of Lummen, Belgium.
He was a considerable talent, winning the prologue time trial of both the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France in his professional debut year 1983. In subsequent years, he won two monument races: in 1985, at 23, he won the storm ridden edition of the Tour of Flanders, and in 1987 he won Paris–Roubaix. In the Tour de France, his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage. The following year, he won the green jersey.
After 1988, his career went in decline and, despite his talent, he failed to win major races. He certainly had considerable talent as a time trial racer, but as a climber in the mountains his talent was limited. Perhaps, he was partly a victim of the high expectations the Belgian public had to get a successor for Eddy Merckx, a cyclist who was very versatile in winning both classic races and big stage races.
After his active career, Vanderaerden has led a few semi-professional racing teams and was also assistant-manager of a professional Belgo-Italian team. He became a directeur sportif with the DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed team in August 2006.[1] His son Michael Vanderaerden signed a contract with the team in September 2007.[2]
Major results
- 1983
- Tour de France
- 1st Prologue
- Held
for two days
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 2 & 11
- 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 4th Milan–San Remo
- 5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 1984
- 1st
National Road Race Championships - Tour de France
- 1st Stages 10 & 23
- Tour de Suisse
- 1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 7
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 2nd Gent–Wevelgem
- 2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 3rd Milan–San Remo
- 9th Omloop Het Volk
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- 10th Nokere Koerse
- 1985
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 13 (ITT) & 19
- Held for three days
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1st Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Suisse
- 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 4th Milan–San Remo
- 4th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1986
- 1st
Points classification Tour de France - 1st
Overall Three Days of De Panne - 1st Halle–Ingooigem
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 1st Trofeo Isla de Mallorca
- 3rd Scheldeprijs
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- 1987
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 3rd Tour of Flanders
- 5th Omloop Het Volk
- 8th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1988
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Ronde van Limburg
- 1989
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Overall Tour of Ireland
- 1st GP Impanis
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse
- 4th Gent–Wevelgem
- 5th Omloop Het Volk
- 1990
- Etoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Six Days of Antwerp
- 2nd Scheldeprijs
- 3rd Binche–Tournai–Binche
- 8th Omloop Het Volk
- 9th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1991
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 3rd Milan–San Remo
- 4th Gent–Wevelgem
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 1992
- 1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España
- 1st GP Wielerrevue
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 3rd Omloop Het Volk
- 3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 1993
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 3 Etoile de Bessèges
- 2nd Gent–Wevelgem
- 3rd Omloop Het Volk
- 8th Le Samyn
- 1995
- 4th Scheldeprijs
- 6th Paris–Roubaix
- 1996
- 3rd Scheldeprijs
References
- ↑ "From Roubaix to Wolverhampton - Eric's back at the races". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
- ↑ "DFL-Cyclingnews wants more Belgians". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-09-24.