Johan Museeuw

Johan Museeuw
Museeuw in 2006
Personal information
Full nameJohan Museeuw
NicknameThe Lion of Flanders,
De Zeemeeuw (The Seagull)[1]
Born (1965-10-13) 13 October 1965 (age 59)
Varsenare, Belgium
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)[2]
Weight92 kg (203 lb; 14 st 7 lb)[2][a]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Professional teams
1988–1989AD Renting–Mini-Flat–Enerday
1990–1992Lotto
1993–1994GB-MG
1994–2000Mapei
2001–2002Domo–Farm Frites
2003–2004Quick-Step
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1990)
2 TTT stages (1993, 1994)

Stage races

Four Days of Dunkirk (1995, 1997)
Three Days of De Panne (1997)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (1996)
National Road Race Championships (1992, 1996)
Tour of Flanders (1993, 1995, 1998)
Paris–Roubaix (1996, 2000, 2002)
Züri-Metzgete (1991, 1995)
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen (1992, 1998)
Omloop Het Volk (2000, 2003)
Paris–Tours (1993)
Amstel Gold Race (1994)
HEW Cyclassics (2002)

Other

UCI Road World Cup (1995, 1996)
Medal record
Representing  Belgium
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1996 Lugano Road race

Johan Museeuw (born 13 October 1965) is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed The Lion of Flanders, he was particularly successful in the cobbled classics of Flanders and Northern France and was considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s.

He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion in 1996.[3] Other notable career achievements include two individual stage wins in the Tour de France, two final classifications of the UCI Road World Cup, two national road race championships and several classic cycle races. In 1996 he received the Vélo d'Or, awarded annually to the rider considered to have performed the best over the year.

  1. ^ Clarke, Stuart (5 November 2015). "13 of the strangest nicknames in cycling". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b Dauwe, Charles. "Charles Dauwe interview with Johan Museeuw" (PDF). fietsica.be. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lugano was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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