Gustaaf Deloor

Gustaaf Deloor (24 June 1913 to 28 January 2002) was a Belgian road racing cyclist and the winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España, in 1935 and 1936. The 1936 race, run over 22 stages and 4,407 km, still has the slowest winning time of the Vuelta, 150 hours, 7 minutes and 54 seconds, and his older brother Alfons finished second overall. Deloor was professional from 1932 until 1939, when the Second World War ended his career. He was serving in the Belgian army at Fort Eben-Emael when German forces took it on 10 May 1940, and he spent the war as a prisoner, working in the kitchen of Stalag II-B. He emigrated to the United States in 1949, later worked on ramjet engine development at the Marquardt Corporation, and returned to Belgium in 1980.