Wilfried Nelissen

Wilfried Nelissen is a Belgian former road racing cyclist, born on 5 May 1970, who specialised as a sprinter. He took more than 50 professional wins, including a stage of the 1993 Tour de France, the Omloop Het Volk in 1993 and 1994, and two national road race championships. At the end of stage 1 of the 1994 Tour de France he was involved in a crash in which he collided with a policeman, an incident that also involved the French rider Laurent Jalabert. A knee injury suffered in 1996 after a fall during the Gent-Wevelgem race ended his career, and he retired in 1998.