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Place of Birth: Nevele, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Eddy Planckaert
- Eddy Planckaert (born 22 September 1958 in Nevele) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium.
- In 1988, Planckaert enjoyed perhaps his best year by capturing the green jersey (points competition) at the 1988 Tour de France and winning the Tour of Flanders.
- In 1990, he won Paris–Roubaix, his second monumental classic, with the closest finish in the race's history beating Canadian Steve Bauer by less than a cm.
- More than 10 years after his cycling career, the former racer got back into the public eye with a long running reality TV show about his family life, on Vtm. Eddy is the brother of fellow cyclists: Willy and Walter Planckaert.
- Eddy is also the uncle of Jo Planckaert and the father of Francesco Planckaert. After the 2016 Paris-Roubaix, Planckaert declared that second-placed Tom Boonen should have made a deal with eventual winner Matthew Hayman in order to fix the race and let Boonen win.
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