Eddy Planckaert

Eddy Planckaert is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, born on 22 September 1958. A strong sprinter, he is one of the few riders to have won stages in all three cycling Grand Tours. His best season came in 1988, when he won the green jersey for the points competition at the Tour de France and also took the Tour of Flanders. In 1990 he won Paris-Roubaix, his second monument classic, in the closest finish in the history of that race, beating the Canadian Steve Bauer by less than a centimetre. He belongs to a cycling family: he is the brother of the cyclists Willy and Walter Planckaert, the uncle of Jo Planckaert and the father of Francesco Planckaert. More than ten years after his racing career ended he returned to public attention through a long running reality television series about his family life on the Belgian channel Vtm.