Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke

Walter Planckaert, Jean-Luc Vandenbrouck and Patrick Sercu during Dwars door België 1977 (collection KOERS. Museum of Cycle Racing) Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (born 31 May 1955) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, track cyclist and directeur sportif. He is an uncle of Frank Vandenbroucke. He was a prologue specialist, winning 19 prologues throughout his career.

Cycling career He won the one-day classic Blois-Chaville (a reconfigured version of Paris–Tours) in 1982. However, certain victory in the race was snatched from Laurent Fignon, who broke a pedal crank while in the lead near the finish.

Major results

1975 1st Flèche Ardennaise 1st Omloop van de Westhoek 5th Omloop van het Houtland 9th Circuit des Frontières 9th Grand Prix des Nations 1976

1st Stage 3b (ITT) 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Omloop van het Zuidwesten 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Milan–San Remo 5th Paris–Tours 7th Tour du Condroz 8th Grand Prix des Nations 9th Overall Tour de l'Aude 1977

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2nd Giro di Lombardia 3rd Overall Paris–Nice 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 4th Dwars door België 4th Omloop Het Volk 4th Grand Prix des Nations 5th Overall Tour de l'Aude 5th Tour du Haut Var 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie 6th Overall Ronde van Nederland 6th Giro dell'Emilia 7th Road race, National Road Championships 7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 9th Paris–Brussels 10th Milan–San Remo 1978 1st Circuit des Frontières 1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 2b Tour de l'Aude 1st Prologue Tour de Corse 3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen 3rd Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire 1st Stage 2a 3rd Tour du Haut Var 3rd Paris–Brussels 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 5th Tour of Flanders 6th Grand Prix de Monaco 7th Grand Prix des Nations 1979 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies Étoile des Espoirs 1st Prologue & Stage 2 2nd Omloop van het Zuidwesten 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 4th Giro di Lombardia 5th Paris–Tours 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm 7th Paris–Brussels 9th Dwars door België 1980

1st Stage 4b (ITT)

1st Stage 2a (ITT) 1st Grand Prix des Nations 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Alfons De Wolf) 6th Tour du Haut Var 7th Giro di Lombardia 8th Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 6 8th Overall Étoile des Espoirs 1st Stage 5 8th Omloop Het Volk 1981

1st Stage 2b 1st Stage 1 Four Days of Dunkirk 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 3rd Omloop Het Volk 3rd Tour du Haut Var 5th Tour of Flanders 7th Overall Tour de l'Aude 1st Prologue 9th Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 7a 1982

1st Stage 5b (ITT) 1st Paris–Tours 1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude 2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise 1st Prologue 2nd Dwars door België 3rd Overall Paris–Nice 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 4th Giro di Lombardia 5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Prologue 1983 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen Étoile des Espoirs 1st Prologue & Stage 6 (ITT) 2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 4th Overall Tour de l'Aude 1st Prologue 4th Grand Prix des Nations 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 1984 1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 2nd Omloop Het Volk 2nd Critérium des As 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges 3rd Tour of Flanders 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 1st Prologue & Stage 4a (ITT) 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 6th Paris–Roubaix 6th Grand Prix des Nations 7th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 7th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 8th Trofeo Baracchi 9th Paris–Tours 10th GP du canton d'Argovie 1985 1st Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

1st Prologue 1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude 3rd Grand Prix des Nations 5th Paris–Tours 8th Nice–Alassio 9th Paris–Brussels 10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 1986 1st Overall Tour de l'Aude 3rd Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 5th Overall Tour de l'Oise 5th Grand Prix Cerami 1987 Vuelta a España 1st Prologue

1st Prologue Paris–Nice 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía 1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre 3rd Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 7th Circuit des Frontières 8th Overall Tour de l'Oise 9th Overall Tour d'Armorique 10th Le Samyn 1988 1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen