Frans Van Looy

Frans Van Looy (26 August 1950 – 20 September 2019) was a Belgian cyclist. Looy was professional from 1972 to 1982. He competed in the individual road race at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

After his career as a cyclist, Van Looy worked as a team manager with Team Telekom and T-Mobile until 2006 and had helped run his family's farm in Merksem. However, a local government order ruled that Van Looy could no longer live at the farm, despite a petition signed by 3,000 people to preserve the residence that Van Looy had been born in. After this order, which ruled his birthplace to be uninhabitable and led to his eviction, he committed suicide in September 2019.

Major wins Sources:

1972 4th Nationale Sluitingsprijs 1973 1st Stage 6 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 1st Stage 1 Tour du Nord 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Mallorca 2nd Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen 5th Nationale Sluitingsprijs 9th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem 10th Grand Prix de Denain 1974 1st Schaal Sels 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs 1st Stage 3 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 7th E3 Harelbeke 8th Dwars door België 1975 2nd GP du Tournaisis 2nd Paris–Tours 3rd Tour du Condroz 3rd Schaal Sels 3rd Coppa Ugo Agostoni 5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 6th Nationale Sluitingsprijs 8th Scheldeprijs 1976 1st Ronde van Limburg 1st Leeuwse Pijl 3rd Omloop van het Leiedal 4th Scheldeprijs 4th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden 4th Paris–Tours 9th Eschborn–Frankfurt 9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 1977 1st Nokere Koerse 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs 3rd Halle–Ingooigem 5th Tour du Condroz 8th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 1978 1st De Kustpijl 1st GP Victor Standaert 1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 1st Stage 3a Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2nd GP du Tournaisis 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 6th Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen 8th Schaal Sels 9th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 1st Stage 3 10th De Brabantse Pijl 1979 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Aragón 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs 2nd Grand Prix de Momignies 3rd De Kustpijl 3rd GP Victor Standaert 1980 1st Halle–Ingooigem 2nd De Kustpijl 2nd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 4th Nokere Koerse 10th Belgian National Road Race Championships 1981 3rd De Kustpijl 7th Nokere Koerse 1982 3rd De Kustpijl

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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