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Marcel Kint

1914 - 2002

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Marcel Kint (20 September 1914, in Zwevegem – 23 March 2002, in Kortrijk) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won 31 races between 1935 and 1951. His finest year was 1938 when he won the World Cycling Championship, three stages of the Tour de France and the season-long competition equivalent to today's UCI ProTour.He specialized in one-day classic cycle races and won Paris–Roubaix, Gent–Wevelgem, Paris–Brussels. He was the only three-time consecutive winner of La Flèche Wallonne until 2016 when Alejandro Valverde won his third consecutive race and fourth overall.Kints honours would have been much bigger but at his sporting peak, his career was halted for a few years by World War II. The outbreak of the war would make Marcel Kint the longest reigning world champion in the history of cycling. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Kint has received more than 22,839 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Kint is the 79th most popular cyclist (up from 86th in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 431st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Belgian Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Marcel Kint ranks 79 out of 1,214Before him are Robert Marchand, Luigi Ganna, Erik De Vlaeminck, Jean Aerts, Ercole Baldini, and Julio Jiménez. After him are Henry Hansen, August von Gödrich, Romain Maes, Alexander Vinokourov, Attilio Pavesi, and Mario Cipollini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Marcel Kint ranks 209Before him are Wolfgang Windgassen, Bertus Aafjes, Shaken Aimanov, Krishan Chander, Jacques Dufilho, and Harold Russell. After him are Henri Laborit, Sisowath Sirik Matak, Jaap Bakema, Jack Cardiff, Mihailo Lalić, and Christl Cranz. Among people deceased in 2002, Marcel Kint ranks 167Before him are Ong Teng Cheong, Vitaly Solomin, Ernst Stojaspal, John Agar, Francisco Coloane, and Harold Russell. After him are Said Belqola, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Rudolf Augstein, Antony C. Sutton, Robert Urich, and Alan Lomax.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Marcel Kint ranks 472 out of 1,019Before him are Daniel Van Buyten (1978), Henri Pousseur (1929), Jan Fabre (1958), René Vandereycken (1953), George Albert Boulenger (1858), and Arnold Badjou (1909). After him are Georges Berger (1918), Jean Duvieusart (1900), Romain Maes (1912), Christl Cranz (1914), Peter Jan Beckx (1795), and Jean Stas (1813).

Among CYCLISTS In Belgium

Among cyclists born in Belgium, Marcel Kint ranks 21Before him are Walter Godefroot (1943), Léon Scieur (1888), Herman Van Springel (1943), Briek Schotte (1919), Erik De Vlaeminck (1945), and Jean Aerts (1907). After him are Romain Maes (1912), Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948), Edward Van Dijck (1918), Georges Ronsse (1906), Ferdinand Bracke (1939), and Johan Museeuw (1965).