Ronde van West-Vlaanderen

Ronde van West-Vlaanderen
Race details
Date	March, May, August, September
Region	Flanders, Belgium
English name	Tour of West-Flanders
Local name(s)	Ronde van West-Vlaanderen (in Dutch), Tour de Flandre Occidentale (in French)
Discipline	Road
Competition	Cat. 1.2
Type	One-day race
History
First edition	1960
Editions	19
Final edition	1978
First winner	Henri De Wolf (BEL)
Most wins	Eric De Vlaeminck (BEL); Guido Reybrouck (BEL); (2 wins)
Final winner	Cees Priem (NED)

The Ronde van West-Vlaanderen was a cycling race organized for the last time in 1978.^[1]

The course was situated in West-Flanders. The competition's roll of honor includes the successes of Eddy Merckx and Eric De Vlaeminck.^[2]

Winners edit

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1960	Henri De Wolf	Louis Lemarcq	Fernand Tuytens
1961	Gilbert Desmet	Armand Desmet	Gustaaf De Smet
1962	Leon Gevaert	Fernand Tuytens	Gabriel Borra
1963	Leon Van Daele	André Noyelle	Albert Covens
1964	Bernard Van de Kerckhove	Fernand Deferm	Oswald Declercq
1965	Guido Reybrouck	Herman Van Loo	Karel Colpaert
1966	Omer Ballegeer	Clément Roman	Walter Godefroot
1967	Willy Bocklant	Walter Godefroot	Herman Van Loo
1968	Roger Rosiers	Eric Demunster	Jean Monteyne
1969	Eric De Vlaeminck	Leen Poortvliet	Harm Ottenbros
1970	Eric De Vlaeminck	Noël Van Clooster	Gustaaf Van Roosbroeck
1971	Jacques Clauwaert	Roger Cooreman	Herman Vrijders
1972	Guido Reybrouck	Raphael Van Bruane	Fernand Hermie
1973	Eddy Goossens	Dirk Baert	Noël Van Clooster
1974	Ronny Vanmarcke	Freddy Maertens	Jean-Louis Danguillaume
1975	Michel Pollentier	Herman Vrijders	Alfons De Bal
1976	Eddy Merckx	Willy De Geest	Marc Renier
1977	Willy Planckaert	Sean Kelly	Ronald De Witte
1978	Cees Priem	Aad van den Hoek	Jan Raas

^ "Tour de Flandre Occidentale". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
^ "Palmares d'Eddy Merckx". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.