Frans Melckenbeeck

Frans Melckenbeeck
	Melckenbeeck finishing behind Darrigade in the 2nd stage of the 1962 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Frans Melckenbeeck
Born	15 November 1940 (age 83); Lede, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1962–1966	Mercier–BP–Hutchinson
1967–1969	Groene Leeuw–Tibetan–Pull Over Centrale
1970–1972	Goldor
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1963) Vuelta a España 4 individual stages (1964, 1965) One-day races and Classics Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1963) Omloop Het Volk (1964) Grand Prix de Fourmies (1964)

Frans Melckenbeeck (born 15 November 1940) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer.^[1] In 1962, Melckenbeeck won one stage of the Tour de France, and in 1963 he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège.^[2] He won 4 stages in the 1964 and 1965 Vuelta a España. Melckenbeeck also competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Major results

1958

1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten Amateurs race

1st Overall Étoile des Débutants

1st Stages 1, 3 & 4

1960

1st Bruxelles–Lede

1961

5th UCI Road World Championships Amateur road race

1961

1st

National Road Race Championships Road race, amateurs

1st

National Track Championships Madison, amateurs

1st Overall Ronde van Limburg (for under age 26)

2nd Overall Tour of Belgium amateurs

1st Stages 5 & 6

1st Overall Tour du Berry

1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)

1st Paris–Vailly

1st Kampioenschap van Oost-Vlaanderen

1st Grand Prix Somalia

2nd Grand Prix Neuville

2nd Gent–Wevelgem Amateurs

1962

1st Schelde-Dender-Leie

1st Lede

1st Mere

1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 5 Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Mol

2nd Paris–Tours

2nd Berlare

3rd Overall Tour du Nord

1st Stage 2

3rd Gullegem Koerse

1963

Tour de France:

1st Stage 4

1st Stage 2 Tour du Nord

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st GP Brasschaat

1st GP Gemeente Kortemark

1st Omloop Gemeente Melle

1st Stage 5 Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Grote 1-MeiPrijs

1st Stages 2, 4 & 7 Tour du Sud-Est

1st GP Roeselare

1st Provencial interclub championship

1st Aalst

1st Lede

1st Ninove

1st GP Gemeente Kortemark

2nd Tour of Flanders

2nd Schelde-Dender-Leie

2nd Boucles de l'Aulne

2nd

National Road Race Championships Interclubs Road race

3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

3rd Schaal Sels

1964

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies

1st Stage 1 Tour de Picardie

1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues

1st Omloop Het Volk

1st GP Gemeente Kortemark

1st Lede

1st Grote Prijs Marcel Kint

Vuelta a España

1st stages 3, 6 and 17

1st Omloop Het Volk

1st GP Roeselare

1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice

1st Temse

1st Zwevegem

1st Lede

1st Kortemark

2nd Schelde-Dender-Leie

2nd Grand Prix d'Aix-en-Provence

2nd Grand Prix de Saint-Raphaël

3rd

National Road Race Championships Road race

3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1965

Vuelta a España:

1st Stage 10a

1st GP Monaco

1st Erembodegem-Terjoden

1966

1st Omloop van de Vlasstreek

1st Omloop Gemeente Melle

1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour of Belgium

2nd Omloop van het Waasland

1967

1st Stages 3 & 4 (TTT) Tour of Belgium

1st Provencial interclub championship

1st Westouter

1968

1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem

1st Erembodegem-Terjoden

1st Herzele

1st Handzame

1969

1st Lede

1st Moorsele

1970

1st Roubaix-Cassel-Roubaix

1971

1st Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen

1st Temse

3rd Schelde-Dender-Leie

1972

1st Ninove

References

^ "Frans Melckenbeek". FirstCycling.com. 2022.
^ "Palmarès de Frans Melckenbeeck (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^ "Frans Melckebeke Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.