Rudy Pevenage

Rudy Pévenage (15 June 1954) is a former Belgian cyclist, and later in his career team coach of cycling teams such as , , , and .

Pévenage was a professional cyclist from 1976 until 1988. His largest success was in the 1980 Tour de France: he won one stage and won the points classification. He reached second place in the 1979 Tour de Suisse. He also spent nine days in the yellow jersey, leading the general classification in the Tour de France. His nickname was de rosse van Moerbeke.

After his cycling career, Pévenage became a team manager. Pévenage was team manager of Deutsche Telekom when Jan Ullrich started his career. In 2002, when Ullrich was forced to leave the team, Pévenage followed Ullrich to his new team Bianchi. After a good 2003 Tour de France, Ullrich returned to Telekom, without Pévenage. In 2006, Pévenage returned to Telekom (then renamed T-Mobile). When Ullrich was suspected of using illegal doping in Operación Puerto and was fired by T-Mobile Team, Pévenage also had to leave. He was rumoured to have worked as a connection between Ullrich and the Spanish Eufemiano Fuentes.

Major results Source:

1976 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 3rd Circuit de Wallonie 7th Druivenkoers Overijse 1977 2nd Le Samyn 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland 1st Stage 5 3rd Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen 4th Leeuwse Pijl 6th Milano–Torino 7th Dwars door België 7th Brussels Cycling Classic 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 9th Paris–Tours 1978 2nd Leeuwse Pijl 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland 3rd Ronde van Limburg 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 7th Trofeo Laigueglia 1979 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse 3rd Circuit des Frontières 4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 1980 1st Points classification Tour de France 1st Stage 2 2nd Druivenkoers Overijse 4th Brabantse Pijl 6th Eschborn–Frankfurt 8th Züri-Metzgete 10th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 1981 1st Tour de Berne 1st Druivenkoers Overijse 1st Omloop van het Houtland 2nd 1981 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 4th 1981 Amstel Gold Race 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 4th Brussels Cycling Classic 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 7th La Flèche Wallonne 9th Nokere Koerse 9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 1982 3rd Tour of Flanders 4th Tour de Berne 4th Grand Prix de Wallonie 4th Brussels Cycling Classic 6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 6th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 6th Trofeo Laigueglia 1983 3rd Coppa Bernocchi 6th Milano–Torino 1984 2nd Trofeo Pantalica 2nd GP Montelupo 4th Trofeo Laigueglia 7th Coppa Sabatini 1985 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Giro d'Italia 9th Züri-Metzgete

General classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish