Emile Daems

Emile Daems

Daems after winning stage 5 of the 1962 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Emile Daems
Born	(1938-04-04) 4 April 1938 (age 86) Genval, Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1960–1962	Philco
1963–1965	Peugeot–BP–Englebert
1966	Solo–Superia
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 4 individual stages (1961, 1962) Giro d'Italia 2 individual stages (1960) Other stage races Giro di Sardegna (1961) One-day races and Classics Giro di Lombardia (1960) Milan–San Remo (1962) Paris–Roubaix (1963) Giro dell'Appennino (1960) Giro del Ticino (1961, 1962)

Emile Daems (born 4 April 1938) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist.^[1]

He began his professional career in 1959. Daems, rather small in stature, was very adept at sprinting.

In the 1962 Tour de France, he distinguished himself with three victories, first in Saint-Malo and then in Aix-en-Provence, each time solo. But it was especially during the mountainous 18th stage, between Juan-les-Pins and Briançon, that he impressed. Although he was mainly a classics rider, he managed to join the leading group on the col de l'Izoard (last climb of the day), twenty seconds behind Federico Bahamontes. He finally won in Briançon in a sprint of seven riders, ahead of Bahamontes, Jacques Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor and the yellow jersey Joseph Planckaert.^[2]