CYCLIST

Rudy Dhaenens

1961 - 1998

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Rudy Dhaenens (10 April 1961 – 6 April 1998) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who is most famous for winning the road race at the 1990 UCI Road World Championships as a member of the Belgian national team. Dhaenens excelled several times in the Paris–Roubaix classic race; finishing second in 1986 and third the following year. Dhaenens won the 1990 World Championship Road Race, held in Utsunomiya, Japan, ahead of Dirk De Wolf of Belgium and Gianni Bugno of Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudy Dhaenens has received more than 38,436 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rudy Dhaenens is the 338th most popular cyclist (down from 331st in 2019), the 807th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 729th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Belgian Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Rudy Dhaenens ranks 338 out of 1,613. Before him are Kim Andersen, Roberto Visentini, Joaquim Rodríguez, Tom Dumoulin, Jürgen Kissner, and Tomasz Stankiewicz. After him are Ugo Colombo, Michele Bartoli, Denis Menchov, Fränk Schleck, Gert-Jan Theunisse, and Michele Scarponi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Rudy Dhaenens ranks 470. Before him are Eva Grimaldi, Mark Messier, Pravind Jugnauth, Brit Pettersen, Hiro Yamamoto, and John Lynch. After him are Martín Lasarte, Irene Sáez, Noriyuki Abe, Alan Pardew, Gary Brabham, and Matt Ghaffari. Among people deceased in 1998, Rudy Dhaenens ranks 301. Before him are Dušan Pašek, Ran Laurie, Aleksey Spiridonov, John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Boris Tatushin, and Ardalion Ignatyev. After him are Josephine Hutchinson, Hendrik Timmer, Claudia Testoni, Wade Dominguez, Sam Balter, and Richard Denning.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Rudy Dhaenens ranks 807 out of 1,190. Before him are Luc Luycx (1958), Greg Van Avermaet (1985), Ludo Peeters (1953), Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), Anne-Marie Lizin (1949), and Jordan Lukaku (1994). After him are Jérémie Renier (1981), Danny Boffin (1965), Salah Abdeslam (1989), Roger Foulon (1923), Gilbert Stork (1921), and Eric Vanderaerden (1962).

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Among CYCLISTS In Belgium

Among cyclists born in Belgium, Rudy Dhaenens ranks 53. Before him are Philippe Gilbert (1982), Johan Bruyneel (1964), Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (1955), Eddy Planckaert (1958), Greg Van Avermaet (1985), and Ludo Peeters (1953). After him are Eric Vanderaerden (1962), Frank Hoste (1955), Etienne De Wilde (1958), Remco Evenepoel (2000), Edwig Van Hooydonck (1966), and Sven Nys (1976).

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