Serge Baguet

Serge Baguet (18 August 1969 – 9 February 2017) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

Career He was the son of the ex-cyclist Roger Baguet. He was married to Sandra Rasschaert and they have a son (Sam). Baguet started his professional cycling career in 1991. He worked for Lotto for five years and one year for Vlaanderen 2002. His major victories were stages in the Tour du Limousin and the Tour of Britain. After six years pro-cycling, he became a roofer.

In 2000, he made a comeback in the cycling-milieu (again with Lotto) and won the biggest victory in his career: a stage in the Tour de France. In 2005 he won two stages in the Vuelta a Andalucía and became the Belgian national cycling champion. In 2006 and 2007, Baguet rode for the second big Belgian UCI ProTeam: Quick Step-Innergetic. He retired at the end of the 2007 season.

Baguet died on 9 February 2017 after a two-year battle against colon cancer.

Major results

1989 3rd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 1990 1st Stage 4 GP Tell 2nd Seraing-Aachen-Seraing 4th Gran Premio della Liberazione 4th Circuit des Frontières 6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 7th Trophée des Grimpeurs 1991 1st Tour du Nord-Ouest 2nd GP Villafranca de Ordizia 8th GP de la Ville de Rennes 10th Rund um den Henninger Turm 1992 2nd Cholet-Pays de Loire 2nd GP Ouest–France 3rd Overall Tour du Limousin 1st Stage 2 5th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden 7th Brabantse Pijl 8th GP de la Ville de Rennes 1993 1st Stage 2 Kellogg's Tour of Britain 7th Brabantse Pijl 10th La Flèche Wallonne 1994 1st Clásica de Sabiñánigo 1995 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 6th Druivenkoers-Overijse 10th Veenendaal–Veenendaal 2000 3rd GP Stad Zottegem 6th Coppa Bernocchi 2001 1st Druivenkoers-Overijse 1st Stage 17 Tour de France 2nd Coppa Sabatini 4th GP Ouest–France 4th Grand Prix de Wallonie 5th Clásica de San Sebastián 5th Cholet-Pays de Loire 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 8th Luk-Cup Bühl 9th Overall Tour de Pologne 9th Tour du Haut Var 10th Nokere Koerse 2002 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami 3rd Trofeo Laigueglia 5th GP Industria & Commercio di Prato 5th GP Stad Zottegem 6th Brabantse Pijl 6th Cholet-Pays de Loire 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 8th GP Ouest–France 9th Coppa Sabatini 2004 2nd GP Ouest–France 2005

Vuelta a Andalucía 1st Points classification 1st Stages 2 & 3 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne