Éloi Meulenberg

Eloi Meulenberg (22 September 1912 – 26 February 1989) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.^[1] He is best known for his gold medal in the Elite Race of the 1937 Road World Championships and his nine stage wins in the Tour de France.^[2][3]

Eloi Meulenberg

Meulenberg in 1939
Personal information
Born	(1912-09-22)22 September 1912 Jumet, Belgium
Died	26 February 1989(1989-02-26) (aged 76) Charleroi, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team
1934	Independent
Professional teams
1934-40	Alcyon-Dunlop
1941-42	Individual
1943	Helyett-Hutchinson
1944	Jordens
1946-47	Rochet-Dunlop
1948	Peugeot-Dunlop
1948	Météore and Elvé-Peugeot
1948	Peugeot-Dunlop
1949-50	?
Major wins
Road Grand Tours Tour de France 9 individual stages (1936, 1937, 1938) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1937) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1937) Grand Prix de Fourmies Paris–Brussels (1936) Scheldeprijs (1943) Ronde van Limburg (1945)
Medal record Representing  Belgium Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 1937 Copenhagen Elite Men's Road Race

Meulenberg during the 1936 Tour de France

Major results

1932

1st Stage 9 Tour of Belgium Independents

1934

1st Brussels-Liège (fr)

1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ouest

1935

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies

2nd 1935 Tour of Flanders

1936

1st Paris–Brussels

Tour de France

1st Stages 6 & 18a

3rd Circuit de Paris [fr]

5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

10th La Flèche Wallonne

1937

1st   Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st GP Stad Vilvoorde

1st Omloop Groot Oostende

1st Bergen op Zoom

1st Critérium de Zürich

Tour de France

1st Stages 11a, 13b, 14a & 14c

1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium

1938

1st G.P d'Auvelais

1st Critérium de Namur

Tour de France

1st Stages 4a, 4b & 5

8th Paris–Brussels

10th Paris–Tours

1939

1st Nancy-Les Vosges-Nancy

1st Championship of Hainaut

1943

1st Scheldeprijs

1st GP Jordens

1st GP d'Ougrée

1st GP Brussels

1942

1st Marcinelle

1st Seraing

1943

1st Championship of Brabant

1945

1st Ronde van Limburg^{[clarification needed]}

1st GP de la Victoire

1st Bonheiden

1st Châtelineau

1st Keumiée

1st Wavre

References

1. "Eloi Meulenberg". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
2. "Palmarès d'Eloi Meulenberg (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 16 September 2023.
3. "Eloi Meulenberg". ProcyclingStats. 2023.

External links

• Éloi Meulenberg at Cycling Archives