Daniel Willems Explained

Daniel Willems
Fullname:Daniel Willems
Birth Date:16 August 1956
Birth Place:Herentals, Belgium
Death Place:Vorselaar, Belgium
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1978 - 1981
Proteam1:Ijsboerke
Proyears2:1982 - 1983
Proteam2:Boule d'Or
Proyears3:1984
Proteam3:Murella
Proyears4:1985
Proteam4:Safir-Van de Ven
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Tour de France

4 individual stages (1981, 1982)One-day races and Classics

Scheldeprijs (1979)

Paris–Tours (1980)

La Flèche Wallonne (1981)

Daniel Willems (16 August 1956 – 2 September 2016)[1] was a Belgian road bicycle racer. Health problems ended his career in 1986. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2]

Major results

1976
  • 5th Overall Ruban Granitier Breton
    1977
  • 1st Road race, National Amateur Road Championships
  • 1st Overall Ruban Granitier Breton
  • 1st Stages 1a & 4a (ITT)
  • 4th Flèche Ardennaise
  • 6th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
    1978
  • 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
  • 1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
  • 1st Circuit du Hainaut
  • 2nd Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
  • 3rd Kattekoers
  • 7th Overall Ronde van Nederland
    1979
  • 1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 1st Stage 4b
  • 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 1st Stage 4b
  • 1st Scheldeprijs
  • 1st Brabantse Pijl
  • 1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm
  • 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
  • 2nd Critérium des As
  • 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
  • 3rd Tour of Flanders
  • 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
  • 4th Paris–Tours
  • 4th Circuit des Frontières
  • 5th Overall Paris–Nice
  • 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
  • 6th Gent–Wevelgem
  • 6th Züri-Metzgete
  • 8th Milan–San Remo
  • 9th Circuit du Hainaut
    1980
  • 1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
  • 1st Stages 3 & 5a
  • 1st Paris–Tours
  • 1st Ronde van Limburg
  • 1st Grand Prix Le Télégramme
  • 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 1st Stage 5
  • 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  • 4th Rund um den Henninger-Turm
  • 5th Overall Tour de Suisse
  • 1st Points classification
  • 1st Combination classification
  • 1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (ITT)
  • 5th Züri-Metzgete
  • 7th Paris–Roubaix
  • 7th Amstel Gold Race
  • 8th Circuit du Hainaut
  • 9th Overall Tour de Romandie
  • 9th Tour du Haut Var
    1981
  • 1st La Flèche Wallonne
  • 1st Critérium des As
  • 1st Heistse Pijl
  • Tour de France
  • 1st Stages 11 & 19
  • 1st Stage 3 GP du Midi-Libre
  • 1st Stage 1a Tour of Belgium
  • 3rd Züri-Metzgete
  • 3rd Rund um den Henninger-Turm
  • 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  • 5th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
  • 1st Stages 1, 4 & 5
  • 6th Overall Tour de l'Aude
  • 1st Stage 3
  • 6th Trofeo Laigueglia
  • 10th Road race, National Road Championships
  • 10th Tour of Flanders
    1982
  • 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  • Tour Midi-Pyrénées
  • 1st Stages 1a & 2
  • 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
  • 1st Stage 3
  • 2nd Le Samyn
  • 3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
  • 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
  • 7th Overall Tour de France
  • 1st Stages 3 & 20
  • 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 1st Stage 1
  • 7th Brabantse Pijl
  • 8th Road race, National Road Championships
  • 8th Overall Tour de l'Aude
    1983
  • 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

    Grand Tour general classification results timeline

    Grand Tour1981198219831984
    Vuelta a EspañaDNF
    Giro d'Italia71
    Tour de FranceDNF7DNF
    Legend
    Did not compete
    DNFDid not finish

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Ex-Tourritwinnaar Daniel Willems overleden, Het Laatste Nieuws, 3 September 2016
    2. Web site: Daniel Willems Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418051644/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/daniel-willems-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 25 April 2015 . Sports Reference.