Alfons De Wolf

Alfons De Wolf, known as Fons, was born on 22 June 1956 and is a retired Belgian road race cyclist who was a professional from 1979 to 1990. He represented Belgium at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was tipped alongside Daniel Willems to succeed Eddy Merckx, and he had a dominant 1979 Vuelta a España, winning five stages including an individual time trial and the points classification. He then won the 1980 Giro di Lombardia and the 1981 Milan-San Remo, and narrowly lost the 1982 Liège-Bastogne-Liège to Silvano Contini in a sprint. In 1984 he won a Tour de France stage by almost eighteen minutes over a group of favourites. He won Omloop Het Volk twice and ended his career in 1990.