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Historic Overview Eddy Schepers

Rider

Overall Rank571
NameEddy SCHEPERS
Country
  Belgium
Date of birth12-Dec-1955 - Tienen (Brabant)

Biography

Eddy Schepers

Eddy Schepers (born 12 December 1955) is a Belgian former professional cyclist. He was a professional cyclist from 1978 to 1990 where he rode for many teams including C&A, Carrera and Fagor–MBK. He started out in the C&A cycling team of Belgian Eddy Merckx before riding for various teams. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In 1986 he rode alongside Irish cyclist Stephen Roche for the first time in the Carrera cycling team and he became a loyal teammate of Roche that year. During the following year, Schepers was instrumental in Roche winning the 1987 Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in supporting him on the road and also against the rest of the team who wanted the Italian Roberto Visentini to win the Giro d'Italia. On the fifth stage of the 1987 Giro d'Italia, Schepers let his breakaway companion Jean-Claude Bagot take the stage win in exchange for team support from Bagot's Fagor team if it was called upon in the future. In spite of working for Roche in the Giro d'Italia, Schepers still managed to place 12th in the general classification. Again in the 1987 edition of the Tour de France, Schepers provided Roche with crucial support while the rest of the team did not. Afterwards Schepers went with Roche to the Fagor team but with Roche past his peak due to chronic knee injury, their association stopped. Schepers spent his last year in the peloton riding for the Belgian team Tulip Computers.

His career victories include the overall of the Tour de l'Avenir stage race in 1977 and the first stage of the 1985 Tour de Romandie.

source - Wikipedia

Badges

2

Major Victories

Tour de l'Avenir 1977
Tour de Romandie - stages 1985 (1)
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Seasons

Eddy Schepers - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1975 Individual 3 829
2. 1976 Individual 19 533
3. 1977 Individual 83 323
4. 1978 C&A 271 189
5. 1979 Daf Trucks - Aida 894 57
6. 1980 Daf Trucks - Lejeune 641 85
7. 1981 Daf Trucks - Côte d'Or 1255 39
8. 1982 Gis Gelati - Olmo 248 224
9. 1983 Perlav - Euro Soap 568 106
10. 1984 Dromedario - Alan - Oece - Sidermec 402 160
11. 1985 Lotto - Eddy Merckx 736 81
12. 1986 Carrera - Vagabond 937 60
13. 1987 Carrera - Vagabond - Peugeot 1045 43
14. 1988 Fagor - MBK 600 106
15. 1989 Fagor - MBK 498 131
16. 1990 Tulip Computers 90 482
Overall: 8290 571