Belgian cyclist

Edwig Van Hooydonck (born 4 August 1966 in Ekeren) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He won the prestigious Tour of Flanders twice and Brabantse Pijl four times. Van Hooydonck retired from professional cycling because he felt he could no longer compete with other cyclists, who were at the time starting to dope themselves, without himself cheating too. At this time Erythropoietin (EPO) was becoming a widely used doping agent in the sport. He is the uncle of current professional cyclist Nathan Van Hooydonck.

One minor innovation in cycling credited to Van Hooydonk are three quarter length bibshorts. After he had aggravated a knee problem during the 1989 Tour of Flanders, he had cycling shorts made that stretched below the knee, as an alternative to bandaging the knee.

Major results

19841st Road race, National Junior Road Championships19857th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs19861st Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften2nd Paris–Troyes3rd Flèche Ardennaise5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe19871st Brabantse Pijl2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx3rd Le Samyn5th Overall Ronde van Nederland1st Stage 5 (TTT)5th Overall Cl*ic Brugge–De Panne5th Paris–Roubaix5th Züri-Metzgete10th Grand Prix des Nations10th Nokere Koerse19881st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía1st Prologue1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx3rd Overall Tour of Sweden4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen1st Stage 34th Brabantse Pijl5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico8th Firenze–Pistoia10th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt19891st Tour of Flanders1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne1st Grand Prix de Denain2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx3rd Paris–Roubaix4th Druivenkoers Overijse5th Circuit des Frontières5th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt7th Brabantse Pijl8th Overall Cl*ic Brugge–De Panne19901st Dwars door België2nd Road race, National Road Championships2nd Omloop Het Volk3rd Paris–Roubaix4th Druivenkoers Overijse7th Brabantse Pijl19911st Tour of Flanders1st Brabantse Pijl1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise1st Schaal Sels1st Grand Prix de la Libération (TTT)3rd Omloop Het Volk3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx4th Nationale Sluitingsprijs5th Züri-Metzgete9th Overall Tour de l'Oise9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège9th Circuit des Frontières9th Grand Prix des Amériques19921st Grand Prix de Denain1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España1st Stage 3 (ITT) Étoile de Bessèges3rd Tour of Flanders4th Overall Tour of Ireland1st Stage 34th Brabantse Pijl6th Road race, National Road Championships7th Grand Prix de Wallonie10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège10th Paris–Tours19931st Brabantse Pijl1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie1st Stage 3b (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía3rd Overall Tour de l'Oise3rd Overall Cl*ic Brugge–De Panne3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs5th Druivenkoers Overijse6th Paris–Roubaix7th Tour of Flanders8th Grand Prix des Nations10th Road race, National Road Championships19944th Road race, National Road Championships5th Brabantse Pijl8th Tour du Haut Var8th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx9th Tour of Flanders9th Druivenkoers Overijse19951st Brabantse Pijl2nd Omloop Het Volk2nd Binche–Chimay–Binche3rd Clásica de Almería3rd Druivenkoers Overijse5th Overall Vuelta a Murcia7th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx19962nd Brabantse Pijl2nd Dwars door België5th Omloop Het Volk9th Trofeo Laigueglia

References

External links

• Palmarès by cyclingbase.com