Daniel Willems

Daniel Willems was a Belgian road racing cyclist, born on 16 August 1956 and died on 2 September 2016. He rode as a professional road bicycle racer until health problems brought his career to an end in 1986, and earlier in his career he represented Belgium at the 1976 Summer Olympics, where he took part in the team time trial. Olympedia fills in the rest of the picture: after winning the Belgian amateur title in 1977 he joined the professional team IJsboerke, quickly made his name as a sprinter in one-day classics, and later proved able to handle multi-stage races too, finishing seventh overall in the 1982 Tour de France and winning Paris-Tours in 1980 and La Flèche Wallonne in 1981.