Emile Daems
Personal information | |
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Full name | Emile Daems |
Born | Genval, Belgium | 4 April 1938
Died | 17 October 2024 Wavre, Belgium | (aged 86)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Professional teams | |
1960–1962 | Philco |
1963–1965 | Peugeot–BP–Englebert |
1966 | Solo–Superia |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
Other stage races
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Emile Daems (4 April 1938 – 17 October 2024) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist.[1]
He began his professional career in 1959. Daems, rather small in stature, was very adept at sprinting.
When Daems signed his first professional contract in 1960, it was with the small Italian team Philco. He immediately sprinted to two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia and also won the Tour of Lombardy.
In his neo-professional year, Daems was also included in the Belgian selection for the World Championship on the Sachsenring, Germany. But because Daems had won a criterium at the Sachsenring a few years earlier, he was the only Belgian to refuse to do work for team leader Rik Van Looy (who eventually became world champion). Daems finished 19th.[2]
In the following years, the headstrong Daems would win the stage race Giro di Sardegna (1961), the Monuments Milan-San Remo (1962) and Paris-Roubaix (1963) and 4 stage victories in the Tour de France.[3]
In the 1962 Tour de France, he distinguished himself with three victories, first in Saint-Malo and then in Aix-en-Provence, each time solo. But it was especially during the mountainous 18th stage, between Juan-les-Pins and Briançon, that he impressed. Although he was mainly a classics rider, he managed to join the leading group on the col de l'Izoard (last climb of the day), twenty seconds behind Federico Bahamontes. He finally won in Briançon in a sprint of seven riders, ahead of Bahamontes, Jacques Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor and the yellow jersey Joseph Planckaert.[4]
After a short career of six years, aged 28, Daems quit racing and opened a restaurant. But cycling remained his great love.[5]
Daems died in Wavre on 17 October 2024, at the age of 86.[6]
Major results
As Amateur
- 1956
- 1st National Road Championships - Interclubs road race
- 2nd Brussels–Nivelles
- 1957
- 1st Hoeilaert–Leuven–Hoeilaert
- 1st Brussels–La Louvière–Brussels
- 1st Rund um den Sachsenring
- 3rd Rund um die Hainleite
- 1958
- 1st Overall Tour de Berlin
- Winner 4 stages
- 1st Overall GP Général Patton Juniors
- 1st GP Victor Bodson
- 1st Tour des Quatre-Cantons
- 1st Namur–Namêche
- 1st Bruxelles–La Louvière–Bruxelles
- 1959
- 1st Tour of Flanders indepentents
As Professional
- 1960
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Giro dell'Appennino
- 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 1st Stages 9a and 19 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 16 Roma–Napoli–Roma
- 1st Tour de l'Ouest
- 1st Trofeo Longines (TTT)
- 2nd Ronde van Brabant
- 3rd Heistse Pijl
- 3rd Six Days of Brussels (with Willy Vannitsen)
- 1961
- 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de France
- 1st Giro del Ticino
- 1st GP Dr. Eugeen Roggeman
- 1st GP Brabant Wallon
- 3rd Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé
- 4th Tour of Flanders
- 1962
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Stage 2a Paris–Nice
- 13th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stages 5, 16 and 18
- 2nd points classification
- 1st Stage 5 Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Giro del Ticino
- 1st Flèche Halloise
- 1st Omloop van Limburg
- 3rd Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
- 1963
- 1st National Road Championships - Interclubs road race
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Stages 5 and 7 Mi-Août en Bretagne
- 1st Vilvoorde–Houtem
- 1st Boucles Roquevairoises
- 3rd Brabantse Pijl
- 1964
- 1st Omloop der Zennevallei
- 2nd Gullegem Koerse
- 1965
- 1st National Road Championships - Interclubs road race
- 1st Circuit du Tournaisis
- 2nd GP Stad Vilvoorde
- 3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 3rd Tour of Leuven
References
- ^ "Emile Daems". FirstCycling.com. 2022.
- ^ "Hij stopte op zijn 28ste met koersen, maar won wel Milaan-Sanremo, Parijs-Roubaix én Lombardije: Belgische wielerlegende Emile Daems overleden" [He retired from racing at 28, but won Milan-Sanremo, Paris-Roubaix and Lombardy: Belgian cycling legend Emile Daems has passed away]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 18 October 2024.
- ^ "Wielerwereld rouwt om Emile Daems, eigenzinnige winnaar van de Primavera, Parijs-Roubaix en Lombardije". Sporza (in Dutch). 18 October 2024.
- ^ "Palmarès d'Emile Daems (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "Paris-Roubaix : vainqueur en 1963, le Belge Émile Daems est décédé". lavoixdunord.fr (in French). 18 October 2024.
- ^ Thirion, Stéphane (18 October 2024). "Le peloton belge en deuil : Emile Daems est décédé". Le Soir. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
External links
- Media related to Emile Daems at Wikimedia Commons
- Emile Daems at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Emile Daems at ProCyclingStats
- Emile Daems at CycleBase