Top 10 Belgian cyclists of the 20th century: Merckx, de Vlaeminck, van Looy...

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1. Eddy Merckx

• 5x Tour de France ('74, '72, '71, '70, '69)

• 34x stages in Tour de France ('75, '74, '72, '71, '70, '69)

• 5x Giro d'Italia ('74, '73, '72, '70, '68)

• 7x Milan-San Remo ('76, '75, '72, '71, '69, '67, '66)

• 3x World Championship road race ('74, '71, '67)

• 5x Liège-Bastogne-Liège ('75, '73, '72, '71, '69)

• 3x Paris-Nice ('71, '70, '69)

• 3x Paris-Roubaix ('73, '70, '68)

• 3x Flèche Wallonne ('72, '70, '67)

• 3x Ghent-Wevelgem ('73, '70, '67)

• 1x Vuelta a Espana ('73)

• 6x Climbing Montjuïc ('75, '74, '72, '71, '70, '66)

2. Roger de Vlaeminck

• 6x Tirreno Adriatico ('77, '76, '75, '75, '74, '73, '72)

• 22x stages in the Giro d'Italia ('79, '76, '75, '74, '73, '72)

• 3x Milan-San Remo ('79, '78, '73)

• 4x Paris-Roubaix ('77, '75, '74, '72)

• 2x Il Lombardia ('76, '74)

• 2x Giro del Lazio ('76, '75)

• 1x Tour of Flanders ('77)

• 1x Liège-Bastogne-Liège ('70)

• 1x Tour de Suisse ('75)

• 1x Flèche Wallonne ('71)

• 1x Züri Metzgete ('75)

• 3x Giro d'Italia points classification ('75, '74, '72)

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3. Rik van Looy

• 18x stages in the Vuelta a España ('65, '64, '59, '58)

• 3x Paris-Roubaix ('65, '62, '61)

• 2x World Championship road race ('61, '60)

• 12x stages in the Giro d'Italia ('62, '61, '60, '59)

• 7x stages in the Tour de France ('69, '65, '63)

• 3x Ghent-Wevelgem ('62, '57, '56)

• 2x Tour of Flanders ('62, '59)

• 2x Paris-Brussels ('58, '56)

• 2x Paris-Tours ('67, '59)

• 1x Milan-San Remo ('58)

• 1x Il Lombardia ('59)

• 4x Harelbeke-Antwerp-Harelbeke ('69, '66, '65, '64)

4. Herman van Springel

• 5x stages in the Tour de France ('71, '69, '68, '67)

• 7x Bordeaux - Paris ('81, '80, '78, '77, '75, '74, '70)

• 1x Il Lombardia ('68)

• 1x Paris-Tours ('69)

• 1x Ghent-Wevelgem ('66)

• 1x Züri Metzgete ('71)

• 1x Baracchi Trophy ('69)

• 2x Grand Prix des Nations ('70, '69)

• 5x stages in the Tour de Suisse ('73, '69, '68)

• 2x Cronostaffetta ('72, '71)

• 1x Tour de France points classification ('73)

• 1x Omloop Het Volk ('68)

5. Freddy Maertens

• 15x stages in the Tour de France ('81, '78, '76)
• 2x World Championship road race ('81, '76)
• 13x stages in the Vuelta a España ('77)
• 1x Vuelta a Espana ('77)
• 7x stages in the Giro d'Italia ('77)
• 2x Ghent-Wevelgem ('76, '75)
• 4x 4 Days of Dunkirk ('78, '76, '75, '73)
• 12x stages in Paris-Nice ('77, '76, '75)
• 1x Paris-Nice ('77)
• 3x Tour de France points classification ('81, '78, '76)
• 1x Paris-Tours ('75)
• 1x Volta a Catalunya ('77)

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6. Johan Museeuw

• 3x Tour of Flanders ('98, '95, '93)

• 2x Paris - Roubaix ('00, '96)

• 2x Züri Metzgete ('95, '91)

• 1x World Championship road race ('96)

• 1x Paris - Tours ('93)

• 2x stages in the Tour de France ('90)

• 2x 4 Days of Dunkirk ('97, '95)

• 1x Amstel Gold Race ('94)

• 1x Omloop Het Volk ('00)

• 2x E3-Prijs Harelbeke ('98, '92)

• 3x Brabantse Pijl ('00, '98, '96)

7. Lucien van Impe

• 1x Tour de France ('76)

• 9x stages in the Tour de France ('83, '81, '79, '77, '76, '75, '73, '72)

• 6x Tour de France mountain classification ('83, '81, '77, '77, '75, '72, '71)

• 2x Giro d'Italia mountain classification ('83, '82)

• 2nd Tour de France ('81)

• 9x 2nd stages in the Tour de France ('79, '76, '75, '73, '72, '71, '70)

• 3x 3rd Tour de France ('77, '75, '71)

• 1x stage in the Giro d'Italia ('83)

• 1x stage in the Vuelta a España ('79)

• 1x Tour de l'Aude ('75)

• 2x stages in the Tour de Suisse ('77)

• 1x Tour of the Mining Valleys ('86)

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8. Stan Ockers

• 1x World Championship road race ('55)

• 2x Flèche Wallonne ('55, '53)

• 3x stages in the Tour de France ('56, '54, '50)

• 1x Liège-Bastogne-Liège ('55)

• 2x Tour de France points classification ('56, '55)

• 2x 2nd Tour de France ('52, '50)

• 2x Scheldeprijs ('46, '41)

• 16x 2nd stages in Tour de France ('56, '55, '55, '52, '51, '50, '49, '48)

• 1x Grand Prix Cyclomotoristique des Nations ('56)

• 1x Ronde van België / Tour de Belgique ('48)

• 2x stages in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ('56)

• 1x Schaal Sels ('54)

9. Raymond Impanis

• 2x Paris-Nice ('60, '54)

• 2x Ghent-Wevelgem ('53, '52)

• 1x Paris-Roubaix ('54)

• 1x Tour of Flanders ('54)

• 3x stages in the Tour de France ('48, '47)

• 1x Flèche Wallonne ('57)

• 2x Dwars door België / À travers la Belgique ('51, '49)

• 2x Berg - Housse ('50, '47)

• 4x 2nd Liège-Bastogne-Liège ('55, '54, '48, '47)

• 2x stages in Paris-Nice ('54, '52)

• 1x GP Stan Ockers ('57)

• 1x Berg - Housse ('49)

10. Claude Criquielion

• 1x World Championship road race ('84)

• 2x Flèche Wallonne ('89, '85)

• 1x Tour of Flanders ('87)

• 2x GP du Midi-Libre ('88, '86)

• 1x Tour de Romandie ('86)

• 1x San Sebastian Classic ('83)

• 2x Climbing Montjuïc ('84, '79)

• 1x Setmana-Catalana ('79)

• 2x 2nd Liège-Bastogne-Liège ('91, '85)

• 1x Brabantse Pijl ('82)

• 1x Grand Prix de Wallonie ('88)

• 2x 2nd Flèche Wallonne ('91, '87)

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