Willy Derboven

Willy Derboven was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, born in Leuven on 19 September 1939 and died in Tenerife, Spain, on 22 November 1996. He rode the Tour de France in the early 1960s. In 1963 he finished last in the general classification, earning the lanterne rouge, the traditional name for the last placed rider. A year later, in the fifth stage of the 1964 Tour de France, he beat the German rider Rudi Altig. His English Wikipedia article is a short stub that lists no other career details, so this entry records his birth, death, nationality and these two Tour de France episodes and leaves a fuller record to later research.