Marc Demeyer

Marc Demeyer (1950 to 1982) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist from Avelgem. He turned professional in 1972 with the Flandria team managed by Briek Schotte and went on to win about sixty professional road races, among them the classics Paris-Brussels in 1974 and Paris-Roubaix in 1976. He was one of the so-called Three Musketeers who rode with and for Freddy Maertens and Michel Pollentier, known as a loyal helper to Maertens, yet he could win sprints for himself and took two stages of the Tour de France, in 1978 and 1979, from six starts in the race. He died of a heart attack in January 1982, aged 31, two weeks after being presented as a new signing of the Splendor team.