Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke Explained

Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke
Fullname:Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke
Birth Date:1955 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Mouscron, Belgium
Currentteam:Retired
Discipline:Road
Track
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1975–1979
Proyears2:1980–1985
Proyears3:1986–1987
Proyears4:1988
Manageyears1:1988–1999
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Vuelta a España

1 individual stage (1987)Stage races

Four Days of Dunkirk (1980, 1985)

Three Days of Bruges–De Panne (1985)One-day races and Classics

Paris–Tours (1982)

Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (born 31 May 1955 in Mouscron) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, track cyclist and directeur sportif. He is an uncle of Frank Vandenbroucke. He was a prologue specialist, winning 19 prologues throughout his career.

Cycling career

He won the one-day classic Blois-Chaville (a reconfigured version of Paris-Tours) in 1982. However, certain victory in the race was snatched from Laurent Fignon, who broke a pedal crank while in the lead near the finish.

Major results

1975
  • 1st Flèche Ardennaise
  • 1st Omloop van de Westhoek
  • 5th Omloop van het Houtland
  • 9th Circuit des Frontières
  • 9th Grand Prix des Nations
    1976
  • 1st Overall Étoile des Espoirs
  • 1st Stage 3b (ITT)
  • 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
  • 1st Omloop van het Zuidwesten
  • 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
  • 3rd Milan–San Remo
  • 5th Paris–Tours
  • 7th Tour du Condroz
  • 8th Grand Prix des Nations
  • 9th Overall Tour de l'Aude
    1977
  • 1st Overall Étoile des Espoirs
  • 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
  • 1st Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
  • 2nd Giro di Lombardia
  • 3rd Overall Paris–Nice
  • 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 4th Dwars door België
  • 4th Omloop Het Volk
  • 4th Grand Prix des Nations
  • 5th Overall Tour de l'Aude
  • 5th Tour du Haut Var
  • 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
  • 6th Overall Ronde van Nederland
  • 6th Giro dell'Emilia
  • 7th Road race, National Road Championships
  • 7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
  • 9th Paris–Brussels
  • 10th Milan–San Remo
    1978
  • 1st Circuit des Frontières
  • 1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice
  • 1st Stage 2b Tour de l'Aude
  • 1st Prologue Tour de Corse
  • 3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
  • 3rd Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
  • 1st Stage 2a
  • 3rd Tour du Haut Var
  • 3rd Paris–Brussels
  • 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 5th Tour of Flanders
  • 6th Grand Prix de Monaco
  • 7th Grand Prix des Nations
    1979
  • 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
  • Étoile des Espoirs
  • 1st Prologue & Stage 2
  • 2nd Omloop van het Zuidwesten
  • 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
  • 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
  • 4th Giro di Lombardia
  • 5th Paris–Tours
  • 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
  • 7th Paris–Brussels
  • 9th Dwars door België
    1980
  • 1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 1st Stage 4b (ITT)
  • 1st Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
  • 1st Stage 2a (ITT)
  • 1st Grand Prix des Nations
  • 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Alfons De Wolf)
  • 6th Tour du Haut Var
  • 7th Giro di Lombardia
  • 8th Overall Paris–Nice
  • 1st Stage 6
  • 8th Overall Étoile des Espoirs
  • 1st Stage 5
  • 8th Omloop Het Volk
    1981
  • 1st Overall Tour de l'Oise
  • 1st Stage 2b
  • 1st Stage 1 Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
  • 3rd Omloop Het Volk
  • 3rd Tour du Haut Var
  • 5th Tour of Flanders
  • 7th Overall Tour de l'Aude
  • 1st Prologue
  • 9th Overall Paris–Nice
  • 1st Stage 7a
    1982
  • 1st Overall Étoile des Espoirs
  • 1st Stage 5b (ITT)
  • 1st Paris–Tours
  • 1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude
  • 2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise
  • 1st Prologue
  • 2nd Dwars door België
  • 3rd Overall Paris–Nice
  • 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
  • 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  • 4th Giro di Lombardia
  • 5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
  • 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 1st Prologue
    1983
  • 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  • 1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
  • 1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen
  • Étoile des Espoirs
  • 1st Prologue & Stage 6 (ITT)
  • 2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
  • 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 4th Overall Tour de l'Aude
  • 1st Prologue
  • 4th Grand Prix des Nations
  • 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
    1984
  • 1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude
  • 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 2nd Omloop Het Volk
  • 2nd Critérium des As
  • 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  • 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
  • 3rd Tour of Flanders
  • 5th Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 1st Prologue & Stage 4a (ITT)
  • 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
  • 6th Paris–Roubaix
  • 6th Grand Prix des Nations
  • 7th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
  • 7th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
  • 8th Trofeo Baracchi
  • 9th Paris–Tours
  • 10th GP du canton d'Argovie
    1985
  • 1st Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
  • 1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
  • 1st Prologue
  • 1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre
  • 1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude
  • 3rd Grand Prix des Nations
  • 5th Paris–Tours
  • 8th Nice–Alassio
  • 9th Paris–Brussels
  • 10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    1986
  • 1st Overall Tour de l'Aude
  • 3rd Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
  • 5th Overall Tour de l'Oise
  • 5th Grand Prix Cerami
    1987
  • 1st Prologue Vuelta a España
  • 1st Prologue Paris–Nice
  • 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía
  • 1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre
  • 3rd Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
  • 7th Circuit des Frontières
  • 8th Overall Tour de l'Oise
  • 9th Overall Tour d'Armorique
  • 10th Le Samyn
    1988
  • 1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen

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