Wim Schepers Explained
| Wim Schepers |
| Birth Date: | 25 September 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Stein, Netherlands |
| Death Date: | 25 September 1998 (aged 55) |
| Death Place: | Meers, Stein, Netherlands |
| Discipline: | Road |
| Role: | Rider |
| Proyears1: | 1966–1971 |
| Proyears2: | 1972–1973 |
| Proyears3: | 1974–1975 |
Wim Schepers (25 September 1943 – 25 September 1998) was a Dutch professional road cyclist. A professional from 1966 to 1975, he won two stages of the 1970 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and finished second in the 1972 Liège–Bastogne–Liège to Eddy Merckx.[1]
After the final stage of the 1971 Vuelta a España, Schepers was ranked in second place, 19 seconds behind Ferdinand Bracke, but he was given a ten-minute time penalty for a doping offence, and dropped to 15th.[2]
Major results
- 1965
1st Stages 1 & 6 Tour of Austria
- 1966
1st Manx Trophy
4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1967
3rd National Road Race Championships
4th Amstel Gold Race
- 1968
4th Rund um den Henninger Turm
5th Amstel Gold Race
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
9th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1969
1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1970
1st Stages 2a & 2b Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk
5th Rund um den Henninger Turm
10th Amstel Gold Race
- 1971
10th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1972
2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
4th Rund um den Henninger Turm
8th La Flèche Wallonne
9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1973
4th Rund um den Henninger Turm
10th Züri-MetzgeteNotes and References
- Web site: Wim Schepers . ProCclingStats . 14 March 2019.
- News: Clasificaciones Oficiales. El Mundo Deportivo. Spanish. 17 May 1971.
