Serge Baguet

Serge Baguet was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, born on 18 August 1969 and died on 9 February 2017 after a two-year illness with colon cancer. He was the son of the former cyclist Roger Baguet. He turned professional in 1991, riding for Lotto for five years and for Vlaanderen 2002 for one year, with stage wins in the Tour du Limousin and the Tour of Britain among his major victories. After about six years as a professional he left the sport to work as a roofer, then returned to cycling in 2000 with Lotto and won the biggest victory of his career, a stage of the Tour de France. In 2005 he won two stages of the Vuelta a Andalucia and became Belgian national road champion. He rode for Quick Step-Innergetic in 2006 and 2007 and retired at the end of the 2007 season.