Valère Van Sweevelt

Valère Van Sweevelt
Personal information
Born	(1947-04-15) 15 April 1947 Kuringen, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1968	Smith's
1969	Faema
1970	Peugeot–BP–Michelin
1973	Goldor–Hercka

Valère Van Sweevelt (born 15 April 1947) is a Belgian former racing cyclist. He won the 1968 edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.^[1]

Valère was the older brother of Belgian former racing cyclist Ronny Van Sweevelt.

Major results

1966: 2nd Circuit de Wallonie
1967: 1st Flèche Ardennaise; 1st Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
1968: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège; 1st Stages 3 & 4b Paris–Nice; 1st Stage 3a Tour de Romandie; 2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm; 2nd Züri-Metzgete; 4th Tour du Condroz; 5th Nokere Koerse; 7th Harelbeke-Antwerp-Harelbeke; 7th Brussel-Meulebeke; 8th GP Flandria
1969: 3rd Omloop Het Volk; 3rd Ronde van Limburg; 4th Tour du Condroz; 5th Polder-Kempen; 6th Gent–Wevelgem; 9th Amstel Gold Race
1970: 6th Omloop van de Fruitstreek; 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie

References

↑ "Valere Van Sweevelt". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 3 October 2015.

External links

Valere van Sweevelt at Cycling Archives

Valere van Sweevelt at ProCyclingStats

Liège–Bastogne–Liège winners
1880–1899	Léon Houa (1892–1894) (1895–1907, not held)
1900–1919	André Trousselier (1908) Victor Fastre (1909) (1910, not held) Joseph Van Daele (1911) Omer Verschoore (1912) Maurice Moritz (1913) (1914–1918, not held) Léon Devos (1919)
1920–1939	Léon Scieur (1920) Louis Mottiat (1921–1922) René Vermandel (1923–1924) Georges Ronsse (1925) Dieudonné Smets (1926) Maurice Raes (1927) Ernest Mottard (1928) Alphonse Schepers (1929) Hermann Buse (1930) Alphonse Schepers (1931) Marcel Houyoux (1932) François Gardier (1933) Théo Herckenrath (1934) Alphonse Schepers (1935) Albert Beckaert (1936) Éloi Meulenberg (1937) Alfons Deloor (1938) Albert Ritserveldt (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Richard Depoorter (1943) (1944, not held) Jan Engels (1945) Prosper Depredomme (1946) Richard Depoorter (1947) Maurice Mollin (1948) Camille Danguillaume (1949) Prosper Depredomme (1950) Ferdinand Kübler (1951–1952) Alois De Hertog (1953) Marcel Ernzer (1954) Stan Ockers (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Frans Schoubben and Germain Derycke (1957) Fred De Bruyne (1958–1959)
1960–1979	Albertus Geldermans (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961) Jef Planckaert (1962) Frans Melckenbeeck (1963) Willy Bocklant (1964) Carmine Preziosi (1965) Jacques Anquetil (1966) Walter Godefroot (1967) Valère Van Sweevelt (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Roger De Vlaeminck (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1973) Georges Pintens (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Joseph Bruyère (1976) Bernard Hinault (1977) Joseph Bruyère (1978) Dietrich Thurau (1979)
1980–1999	Bernard Hinault (1980) Josef Fuchs (1981) Silvano Contini (1982) Steven Rooks (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Moreno Argentin (1985–1987) Adri van der Poel (1988) Sean Kelly (1989) Eric Van Lancker (1990) Moreno Argentin (1991) Dirk De Wolf (1992) Rolf Sørensen (1993) Evgeni Berzin (1994) Mauro Gianetti (1995) Pascal Richard (1996) Michele Bartoli (1997–1998) Frank Vandenbroucke (1999)
2000–2019	Paolo Bettini (2000) Oscar Camenzind (2001) Paolo Bettini (2002) Tyler Hamilton (2003) Davide Rebellin (2004) Alexander Vinokourov (2005) Alejandro Valverde (2006) Danilo Di Luca (2007) Alejandro Valverde (2008) Andy Schleck (2009) Alexander Vinokourov (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Maxim Iglinsky (2012) Dan Martin (2013) Simon Gerrans (2014) Alejandro Valverde (2015) Wout Poels (2016) Alejandro Valverde (2017) Bob Jungels (2018) Jakob Fuglsang (2019)
2020–2039	Primož Roglič (2020) Tadej Pogačar (2021) Remco Evenepoel (2022–2023)

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