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Walter Godefroot

1943 - Today

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Walter Godefroot (born 2 July 1943) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile Team. As amateur cyclist, he won the bronze medal in the individual road race of the 1964 Summer Olympics after his young compatriot Eddy Merckx was caught in the final. Both men turned professional in 1965 and Walter Godefroot was presented as Merckx's bane in his early days, winning several races ahead of him: the Belgian championship in 1965, Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1967) and Paris–Roubaix (1969).But Godefroot eventually didn't have Merckx's abilities in stage races and concentrated on the separate stages in the grand tours. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Godefroot has received more than 48,214 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Godefroot is the 50th most popular cyclist (down from 47th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 336th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Belgian Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Walter Godefroot ranks 50 out of 1,214Before him are Stan Ockers, Aristidis Konstantinidis, Lucien Buysse, Roger Walkowiak, Maurice De Waele, and Francesco Moser. After him are Léon Scieur, Gastone Nencini, Fiorenzo Magni, André Leducq, Gösta Pettersson, and Tony Rominger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Walter Godefroot ranks 256Before him are Bjørn Wirkola, Nasr Abu Zayd, Lobo, William Calley, James Turrell, and Giovanni Goria. After him are Valery Nepomnyashchy, Jim Croce, Sani Abacha, Dušan Uhrin, Mulatu Astatke, and Marika Green.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Walter Godefroot ranks 392 out of 1,019Before him are Chrodegang (715), Diane von Fürstenberg (1946), Benoît Sokal (1954), Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Franky Vercauteren (1956), and Eugène Boch (1855). After him are Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830), Paul Janssen (1926), Felix Timmermans (1886), Ferdinand de Marsin (1656), Gaston Roelants (1937), and Raoul Lambert (1944).

Among CYCLISTS In Belgium

Among cyclists born in Belgium, Walter Godefroot ranks 15Before him are Sylvère Maes (1909), Freddy Maertens (1952), Odile Defraye (1888), Stan Ockers (1920), Lucien Buysse (1892), and Maurice De Waele (1896). After him are Léon Scieur (1888), Herman Van Springel (1943), Briek Schotte (1919), Erik De Vlaeminck (1945), Jean Aerts (1907), and Marcel Kint (1914).