 Swerts c. 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Roger Swerts | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1942-12-28) 28 December 1942 (age 82) Heusden-Zolder, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1965–1967 | Mercier-BP-Hutchinson | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–1970 | Faema | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1973 | Molteni | ||||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | IJsboerke–Colner | ||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Molteni–Campagnolo | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Fiat | ||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Old Lord's–Splendor–K.S.B. | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| Grand Tours | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Roger Swerts (born 28 December 1942) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. As an amateur he placed 18th in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 1965 UCI Road World Championships. He turned professional later in 1965.
Major results
- 1962
- 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 5
- 1964
- 1st Stage 10 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1965
- 3rd
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 7th Overall Course de la Paix
- 1966
- 1st Stage 2b (TTT) Tour of Belgium
- 4th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne
- 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1967
- 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1968
- 1st Grand Prix de Monaco
- 1st Stage 6a Volta a Catalunya
- 4th Brabantse Pijl
- 4th Heist-op-den-Berg
- 5th Sassari-Cagliari
- 6th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 8th Giro del Veneto
- 8th Omloop der Zennevallei
- 1969
- 1st Züri–Metzgete
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Tour de France
- 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 6th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 6th Omloop van de Fruitstreek
- 7th Druivenkoers Overijse
- 1970
- 1st Stage 3a (TTT) Tour de France
- 1971
- 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour de France
- 2nd Brussels–Ingooige
- 4th Züri–Metzgete
- 6th Paris–Tours
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1972
- 1st
Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stages 4 & 5b (ITT)
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Eddy Merckx)
- 1st Stage 12b (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1a (ITT) Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stage 3b (TTT) Tour de France
- 2nd Gran Premio di Lugano
- 3rd Brabantse Pijl
- 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 9th Tour du Condroz
- 10th La Flèche Wallonne
- 10th Züri–Metzgete
- 1973
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Prologue (TTT)
- Held
after Prologue
- 3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5b (ITT)
- 7th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 9th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 6a & 6b (TTT)
- 1974
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
- 7th Brabantse Pijl
- 8th Ronde van Limburg
- 9th Circuit des Onze Villes
- 10th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Prologue, Stages 8a & 12
- Held
after Prologue & Stage 1
- 10th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1975
- 1st Heist-op-den-Berg
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Prologue
- Held after Prologue & Stage 1
- 3rd Dwars door België
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 7th Paris–Roubaix
- 8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 9th Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen
- 1976
- 7th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Brabantse Pijl
- 1977
- 8th Overall Tour of Belgium
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 10 | 29 | — | — | — |
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | — | 25 | — | 53 | 21 | 16 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France
|
41 | 63 | 54 | — | 44 | 24 | 35 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Classics results timeline
| Monuments results timeline | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monument | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | ||||
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | — | — | 143 | — | 30 | 34 | 26 | 35 | 55 | — | — | ||||
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | 61 | 6 | — | 14 | 18 | — | — | — | ||||
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | 15 | 29 | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | 7 | 17 | — | — | ||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | 6 | 19 | — | 6 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | ||||
| Giro di Lombardia | Did not contest during career | |||||||||||||||||
Major championship results timeline
| 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 World Championships
|
3 | — | — | — | 5 | — | 10 | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | — |
 National Championships
|
37 | 5 | 14 | — | 27 | 18 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 22 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- "Roger Swerts Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- Roger Swerts at Cycling Archives (archived)
External links
- Roger Swerts at CycleBase
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- 1942 births
- Belgian male cyclists
- Living people
- Olympic cyclists for Belgium
- Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Belgian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Belgian Vuelta a España stage winners
- People from Heusden-Zolder
- Cyclists from Limburg (Belgium)
- 20th-century Belgian sportsmen
- Belgian cycling biography, 1940s birth stubs