Fred De Bruyne

Alfred De Bruyne, known as Fred, was a Belgian champion road cyclist who lived from 1930 to 1994. He won six Tour de France stages early in his career, three in 1954 and three in 1956, and went on to win several monuments and stage races, among them Milan-San Remo and Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 1956, Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours in 1957 and Paris-Nice in 1956 and 1958. He also won the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo three years running, from 1956 to 1958, the forerunner of the Super Prestige Pernod. After racing he wrote books about leading Belgian cyclists, became a popular television commentator and team manager, and spoke for the Panasonic team before retiring to Provence, where he died in 1994.