Edward Van Dijck, known as Ward, was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, born on 22 March 1918 and died on 22 April 1977, who raced through the 1940s and 1950s. He is best remembered for the 1947 Vuelta a España, a race of 24 stages and 3,893 kilometres in which he became the second Belgian to win the Spanish Grand Tour. In taking the title he upset the Spanish favourites Manuel Costa and Delio Rodríguez, who had won the Vuelta in 1945. The following year he also won the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France, so he has an overall Grand Tour title and a Grand Tour stage win on his record.
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was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer
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Van Dijck became the second Belgian to win the Spanish Grand Tour at the 1947 Vuelta a España
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he won the 16th stage in the Tour de France
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