Freddy Maertens

Belgium Cycling

Career

Discipline: Cycling

Statistics limited to competitions covered in our database.

18 Wins (GC or one-day races)

29 Podiums

15 Tour de France stages

Detailed results

Year	Competition	Classification	Position
1981	Tour de France	Best Sprinter	1^st
1981	Road World Championships		1^st
1978	Omloop Het Nieuwsblad		1^st
	E3 Harelbeke		1^st
	Tour de France	Best Sprinter	1^st
	Four Days of Dunkirk		1^st
1977	Vuelta a España	General Classification	1^st
	Omloop Het Nieuwsblad		1^st
	Volta a Catalunya		1^st
	Paris-Nice		1^st
	Paris-Roubaix		3^rd
1976	Eschborn-Frankfurt - Rund um den Finanzplatz		1^st
	Gent-Wevelgem		1^st
	Tour de France	Best Sprinter	1^st
	Amstel Gold Race		1^st
	Road World Championships		1^st
	Championship of Zürich		1^st
	Four Days of Dunkirk		1^st
	Liège-Bastogne-Liège		2^nd
	La Flèche Wallonne		3^rd
	Tour de France	General Classification	8^th
1975	Paris-Tours		1^st
	Gent-Wevelgem		1^st
	Four Days of Dunkirk		1^st
	E3 Harelbeke		2^nd
	Amstel Gold Race		2^nd
1974	E3 Harelbeke		2^nd
1974	Four Days of Dunkirk		3^rd
1973	Four Days of Dunkirk		1^st
	Tour of Flanders		2^nd
	Road World Championships		2^nd
	Eschborn-Frankfurt - Rund um den Finanzplatz		3^rd
	Across Flanders		3^rd

Tour de France

Best Sprinter

Year	Position
1981	1^st
1978	1^st
1976	1^st

General Classification

Year	Position
1976	8^th

Vuelta a España

General Classification

Year	Position
1977	1^st

Paris-Nice

Year	Position
1977	1^st

Gent-Wevelgem

Year	Position
1976	1^st
1975	1^st

Tour of Flanders

Year	Position
1973	2^nd

Paris-Roubaix

Year	Position
1977	3^rd

Amstel Gold Race

Year	Position
1976	1^st
1975	2^nd

Road World Championships

Year	Position
1981	1^st
1976	1^st
1973	2^nd

Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Year	Position
1976	2^nd

Volta a Catalunya

Year	Position
1977	1^st

La Flèche Wallonne

Year	Position
1976	3^rd

E3 Harelbeke

Year	Position
1978	1^st
1975	2^nd
1974	2^nd

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Year	Position
1978	1^st
1977	1^st

Across Flanders

Year	Position
1973	3^rd

Eschborn-Frankfurt - Rund um den Finanzplatz

Year	Position
1976	1^st
1973	3^rd

Four Days of Dunkirk

Year	Position
1978	1^st
1976	1^st
1975	1^st
1974	3^rd
1973	1^st

Paris-Tours

Year	Position
1975	1^st

Championship of Zürich

Year	Position
1976	1^st

Tour de France: detail by edition

1981 5 stages won

Stage	Start	Finish	km	Podium
1a	Nice	Nice	97	Freddy Maertens 2h23'19" Sean Kelly mt Yvon Bertin mt
3	Martigues	Narbonne	232	Freddy Maertens 6h33'50" Urs Freuler mt Jos Jacobs mt
12a	Roubaix	Brussels	107.3	Freddy Maertens 2h25'48" Urs Freuler mt Fons De Wolf mt
13	Beringen	Hasselt	157	Freddy Maertens 4h01'20" Eddy Planckaert mt Fons De Wolf mt
22	Fontenay-sous-Bois	Paris/Champs-Élysées	186.8	Freddy Maertens 4h45'24" Fons De Wolf mt Klaus-Peter Thaler mt

1978 2 stages won

Stage	Start	Finish	km	Podium
5	Caen	Mazé-Montgeoffroy	244	Freddy Maertens 6h00'16" Gerben Karstens mt Jacques Esclassan mt
7	Poitiers	Bordeaux	242	Freddy Maertens 7h01'08" Jacques Esclassan mt Walter Planckaert mt

1976 General Classification : 8^th 8 stages won

Stage	Start	Finish	km	Podium
Prologue	Saint-Jean-de-Monts	Saint-Jean-de-Monts	8	Freddy Maertens 11'03" Jesús Manzaneque +0'17" Bernard Thévenet +0'20"
1a	Saint-Jean-de-Monts	Angers	173	Freddy Maertens 4h43'37" Régis Delépine mt Ercole Gualazzini mt
3	Le Touquet	Le Touquet	37	Freddy Maertens 47'08" Michel Pollentier +1'37" Roy Schuiten +2'01"
7	Nancy	Mulhouse	205.5	Freddy Maertens 5h41'12" Jacques Esclassan mt Piero Gavazzi mt
18a	Auch	Langon	86	Freddy Maertens 2h34'37" Gerben Karstens mt Piero Gavazzi mt
18b	Langon	Lacanau-Océan	123	Freddy Maertens 3h27'00" Jacques Esclassan mt Enrico Paolini mt
21	Montargis	Versailles	145.5	Freddy Maertens 4h16'07" Piero Gavazzi mt Enrico Paolini mt
22a	Paris	Paris/Champs-Élysées	6	Freddy Maertens 07'46" Joop Zoetemelk +0'11" Raymond Poulidor +0'11"

Also worth discovering

Raymond Poulidor Cycling Fausto Coppi Cycling Miguel Indurain Cycling Greg LeMond Cycling Federico Bahamontes Cycling

All athlete biographies