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Historic Overview Jos Schils

Rider

Overall Rank918
NameJos SCHILS
Country
  Belgium
Date of birth04-Sep-1931 - Kersbeek Miskom (Brabant)
Date of death03-Mar-2007 - Asse (Vlaams Brabant)

Biography

Jozef "Jef" Schils (4 September 1931, in Kersbeek-Miskom – 3 March 2007, in Liège) was a Belgian cyclist.

In 1952, at the age of 21, Jozef Schils, who had just become a professional racing cyclist and was still in the army, became Belgian road racing champion. He was nominated for the road world championships in Luxembourg in the same year and finished tenth.

Schils rode as a professional until 1965 and won around 40 Belgian criteria during this time. 1953 was his most successful year, in which he won Paris-Tours and the Nationale Sluitingsprijs. In 1955 he won at Nokere Koerse. His nickname was "little Coppi", because Fausto Coppi had praised him. However, he turned down offers to go to Italy. In 1957, he won the Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten in Ichtegem on a postman's bike. In 1960, he switched to the French team "Mercier", which was led by Antonin Magne and in which Raymond Poulidor rode. At the end of the season he had a hard crash and he crashed again heavily in 1961. In 1965, he ended his career.

Then Jozef Schils opened a café in Koekelberg, later a laundry and a bicycle shop. Jozef Schils was the father of the former professional racing cyclist Patrick Schils and was the grandfather of Dominic Schils, also a racing cyclist of note.

source - Wikipedia

Badges

10

Major Victories

Paris - Tours 1953
Nokere Koerse 1955
G.P. d'Isbergues 1960
Tour de Romandie - stages 1952 (1)
Vuelta a Valencia - stages 1958 (1), 1959 (2)
Driedaagse van Antwerpen - stages 1958 (1)
G.P. Marvan - stages 1958 (1)
Ronde van Nederland - stages 1958 (1)
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Seasons

Jos Schils - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1950 Individual 36 661
2. 1951 Garin - Wolber 163 260
3. 1952 Garin - Wolber 545 94
4. 1953 Bianchi - Pirelli 497 120
5. 1954 Bianchi - Pirelli 675 76
6. 1955 Girardengo - Eldorado 484 130
7. 1956 Faema - Guerra - Van Hauwaert 480 125
8. 1957 Faema - Guerra 613 92
9. 1958 Faema - Guerra - Clément 1087 42
10. 1959 Faema - Guerra 321 183
11. 1960 Mercier - BP - Hutchinson 636 98
12. 1961 Mercier - BP - Hutchinson 243 240
13. 1962 Mercier - BP - Hutchinson 198 270
14. 1963 Wiel's - Groene Leeuw 79 409
15. 1964 Labo - Dr. Mann 114 319
16. 1965 Lamot - Libertas 35 529
17. 1966 Libertas 0 1403
Overall: 6206 918