Rudy Matthijs

Rudy Matthijs (born 3 March 1959, in Eeklo) is a Belgian retired professional road bicycle racer. He won 4 stages in the Tour de France, 3 of which came during the 1985 Tour de France on stages 1 and 2, and then on the final stage of the tour with one of the biggest sprinter's stages in all of cycling on the Champs Elysees.

Major results

1981 1st Omloop Schelde-Durme 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Aragón 2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden 3rd Polder–Kempen 1982 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 2nd Omloop van het Leiedal 3rd Nokere Koerse 1983 1st Ronde van Limburg 1st Leeuwse Pijl 1st Stage 3 Tour de France 1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg 2nd Brabantse Pijl 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne 7th Dwars door België 9th Omloop Het Volk 1984 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 1st Stages 2 & 4 Tour de Luxembourg 1st Stage 5a (ITT) Four Days of Dunkirk 2nd Dwars door België 5th Tour of Flanders 9th GP Stad Zottegem 10th Paris–Roubaix 1985 Tour de France 1st Stages 1, 2 & 22 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Aragón 2nd GP Ouest–France 2nd Leeuwse Pijl 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Stages 1 & 3 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium 8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne