Eddy Schepers

Eddy Schepers (born 12 December 1955) is a Belgian former professional cyclist. He was a professional cyclist from 1978 to 1990 where he rode for many teams including C&A, Carrera and . He started out in the C&A cycling team of Belgian Eddy Merckx before riding for various teams. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In 1986 he rode alongside Irish cyclist Stephen Roche for the first time in the Carrera cycling team and he became a loyal teammate of Roche that year. During the following year, Schepers was instrumental in Roche winning the 1987 Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in supporting him on the road and also against the rest of the team who wanted the Italian Roberto Visentini to win the Giro d'Italia. On the fifth stage of the 1987 Giro d'Italia, Schepers let his breakaway companion Jean-Claude Bagot take the stage win in exchange for team support from Bagot's Fagor team if it was called upon in the future. In spite of working for Roche in the Giro d'Italia, Schepers still managed to place 12th in the general classification. Again in the 1987 edition of the Tour de France, Schepers provided Roche with crucial support while the rest of the team did not. Afterwards Schepers went with Roche to the Fagor team but with Roche past his peak due to chronic knee injury, their association stopped. Schepers spent his last year in the peloton riding for the Belgian team Tulip Computers.

His career victories include the overall of the Tour de l'Avenir stage race in 1977 and the first stage of the 1985 Tour de Romandie.

Major results

1977 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Overall Giro delle Regioni 1978 3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude 1979 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Brabantse Pijl 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 9th Overall GP du Midi-Libre 1980 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1981 6th Züri-Metzgete 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm 8th La Flèche Wallonne 1983 4th La Flèche Wallonne 1985 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie 6th Overall Tour of Belgium 1986 8th Overall Critérium International 1987 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Giro d'Italia 4th Overall Critérium International 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1988 9th Overall Vuelta a España