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Gustaaf Deloor

Belgian cyclist

Field	Value
name	Gustaaf Deloor
image	Le_Belge_Gustaaf_Deloor,_vainqueur_de_son_second_Tour_d'Espagne,_en_juin_1936.jpg
caption	Deloor after winning the 1936 Vuelta a España
full_name	Gustaaf Deloor
birth_date
birth_place	De Klinge, Belgium
death_date
death_place	Mechelen, Belgium
discipline	Road
role	Rider
proyears1	1933
proteam1	Dilecta – Wolber
proyears2	1934
proteam2	De Dion – Bouton
proyears3	1934
proteam3	Catalunya Cycles
proyears4	1935–1937
proteam4	Colin – Wolber
proyears5	1938
proteam5	De Dion – Bouton
proyears6	1939
proteam6	Colin
majorwins	Grand Tours

:Tour de France ::1 individual stage (1937) :Vuelta a España ::General classification (1935, 1936) ::6 individual stages (1935, 1936)

Gustaaf Deloor (24 June 1913 – 28 January 2002) was a Belgian road racing cyclist and the winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España in 1935 and 1936. The 1936 edition remains the slowest winning finish time of the Vuelta in 150:07:54, the race consisted of 22 stages with a total length of 4,407 km. Gustaaf finished first and his older brother Alfons finished second overall.

Biography

Deloor was professional from 1932 until 1939 when World War II caused the end of his career. Deloor was serving in the Belgian army at Fort Eben-Emael near Maastricht when the German army invaded the fort on 10 May 1940, but Deloor together with some 1,200 Belgians were taken prisoner. In Stalag II-B or the prisoner-of-war camp II-B, Deloor was able to work in the kitchen due to a German officer that was interested in sports. When Deloor returned from the war, he came back to a plundered house and decided to start a new life in the United States of America in 1949. After ten years in New York he moved to Los Angeles. He worked as a mechanic until, in 1956, an affluent client helped him find a job at Cape Canaveral aerospace centre. Here he worked for the Marquardt Corporation, the aeronautical engineering firm, in the development and design of the ramjet engine for NASA that was used on the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket. He lost his first wife in 1966 but remarried. In 1980, Deloor returned to Belgium.

Major results

;1931 : 3rd GP Dr. Eugeen Roggeman ;1932 : 1st Tour of Flanders amateurs ;1934 : 1st Heistse Pijl : 1st GP Dr. Eugeen Roggeman : 4th Overall Tour of Belgium ;1935 : 1st [[File:Jersey orange.svg|20px]] Overall Vuelta a España :: 1st Stages 3, 11 & 14 :3rd Scheldeprijs :3rd ;1936 : 1st [[File:Jersey orange.svg|20px]] Overall Vuelta a España :: 1st Stages 2, 4 & 6 :2nd Overall Tour de Suisse ;1937 : 1st Stage 6 Tour de France : 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège :3rd De Drie Zustersteden ;1939 : 1st : 1st Grote 1-MeiPrijs

References

(2023). "Gustaaf Deloor".
(2019-09-16). "Re-Cycle: When Belgian brothers Gustaaf and Alfons Deloor ruled the Vuelta a España". Eurosport.
"Gustaaf Deloor". de wielersite.

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