Johan Museeuw

Johan Museeuw is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who raced from 1988 to 2004 and was nicknamed The Lion of Flanders. He was particularly successful in the cobbled classics of Flanders and northern France and was considered one of the best classics specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix three times, was road world champion in 1996, and added two individual stage wins in the Tour de France, two final classifications of the UCI Road World Cup, two national road race championships and several other classics. In 1996 he received the Velo d'Or, given each year to the rider judged to have performed best over the season.