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Place of Birth: Lummen, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Eric Vanderaerden
- Eric Vanderaerden (born 11 February 1962) is a retired road cyclist from the town of Lummen, Belgium. He was a considerable talent, winning the prologue time trial of both the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France in his professional debut year 1983.
- In subsequent years, he won two monument races: in 1985, at 23, he won the storm ridden edition of the Tour of Flanders, and in 1987 he won Paris–Roubaix.
- In the Tour de France, his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage.
- The following year, he won the green jersey. After 1988, his career went in decline and, despite his talent, he failed to win major races.
- He certainly had considerable talent as a time trial racer, but as a climber in the mountains his talent was limited.
- Perhaps, he was partly a victim of the high expectations the Belgian public had to get a successor for Eddy Merckx, a cyclist who was very versatile in winning both classic races and big stage races.After his active career, Vanderaerden has led a few semi-professional racing teams and was also assistant-manager of a professional Belgo-Italian team.
- He became a directeur sportif with the DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed team in August 2006.
- His son Michael Vanderaerden signed a contract with the team in September 2007.
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