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Maurice De Waele
Belgian cyclist
Belgian cyclist
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Maurice De Waele |
| image | Maurice De Waele Tour de France 1929.JPG |
| caption | De Waele at the 1929 Tour de France |
| fullname | Maurice De Waele |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Lovendegem, East Flanders, Belgium |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Maldegem, East Flanders, Belgium |
| discipline | Road |
| role | Rider |
| amateuryears1 | 1921-1922 |
| amateurteam1 | Individual |
| proyears1 | 1923 |
| proteam1 | Wonder-Dunlop |
| proyears2 | 1924 |
| proteam2 | Wonder-Russell Cycles |
| proyears3 | 1925 |
| proteam3 | Wonder |
| proyears4 | 1926 |
| proteam4 | Ravat-Wonder-Dunlop |
| proyears5 | 1927 |
| proteam5 | Alcyon-Dunlop, Labor-Dunlop |
| proyears6 | 1928-1930 |
| proteam6 | Alcyon-Dunlop |
| proyears7 | 1931 |
| proteam7 | Individual |
| majorwins | ;Cyclo-cross |
:National Championships (1922)
;Road Grand Tours :Tour de France ::General classification (1929) ::5 individual stages (1927-1929) Other Stage races :Grand Prix Alceida (1924) :Criterium du Midi (1926) :Tour of the Basque Country (1928, 1929) :Tour of Belgium (1931) One-day races and Classics :Brussels–Luxembourg–Mondorf (1922) :Arlon–Oostende (1923) :GP Alceida (1926) :Paris–Menen (1926, 1927) :Omloop van België (1930)
Maurice De Waele (; 27 December 1896 – 14 February 1952) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
De Waele placed second in the 1927 Tour, an hour and fifty eight minutes behind Nicolas Frantz, and third in 1928, again won by Frantz. However, he is most famous for winning the 1929 Tour de France. He led the Tour until stage seven when two punctures on the way to Bordeaux cost him the yellow jersey to no less than three other riders on the same time in the general classification, Frantz, Andre Leducq and Victor Fontan. Fontan was the sole leader of the race when a broken bike led to his retirement, leaving De Waele in the lead, seventy five seconds ahead of Frantz. However, punctures to De Waele gave the lead to his nearest rival until he too suffered the same problem. With Frantz out of the running for the title, sickness in Grenoble nearly cost him too but with help from his teammates, he was led to victory.
After winning the 1929 Tour, the organiser, Henri Desgrange despaired so much of the trickery that he thought had let such a minor rider succeed that he abandoned commercially sponsored teams and ran the Tour for national teams for two decades. Desgrange had until then insisted that while riders could compete in the name of their sponsors, cooperation or tactics between those riders was not allowed. They were to consider everyone their rival and ride against them whether they had the same sponsor or not.
De Waele was sponsored by the French bicycle company, Alcyon, whose ability to employ many of the leading riders gave it a dominant place in the sport. Clashes between Alcyon and Desgrange were frequent and came to a head when De Waele won the Tour with the illegal help of other Alcyon riders even though he was ill.
"My Tour has been won by a corpse," Desgrange complained and from the following year denied entries to commercial teams and accepted national teams instead.
De Waele finished 5th in 1931. Other notable wins include the 1928 and 1929 Tour of the Basque Country.
Career achievements
Independent
;1921 : 1st Overall Tour of Belgium Independents ;1922 : 1st [[File:MaillotBélgica.svg|20px]] National Cyclo-cross Championships : 1st Bruxelles-Luxembourg-Mondorf : 1st Bruxelles-Liège (fr) : 2nd Belgian National Road Race Championships Independents : 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium Independents :: 1st Stage 3 : 2nd De Drie Zustersteden : 3rd Grand Prix François Faber
Professional
;1923 : 1st [[File:Jersey red.svg|20px]] Overall Le Havre-Rouen-Le Havre :: 1st Stage 2 : 1st Arlon-Oostende : 2nd Belgian National Road Race Championships : 2nd Paris–Brussels : 2nd Scheldeprijs : 3rd National Cyclo-cross Championships : 4th Overall Tour of Belgium : 5th De Drie Zustersteden ;1924 : 1st [[File:Jersey purple Epic Series.svg|20px]] Overall Circuit des villes d'eaux d'Auvergne (fr) :: 1st Stage 1 : 1st [[File:Jersey green Epic Series.svg|20px]] Overall Grand Prix Alceida :: 1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium : 2nd National Cyclo-cross Championships : 2nd De Drie Zustersteden :3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 6th Liège-Bastogne-Liège : 6th Paris–Brussels :7th Paris–Roubaix : 8th Tour of Flanders ;1925 :1st Kampioenschap van Oost-Vlaanderen :1st Balgerhoeke :2nd Overall Tour of Belgium :2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen :3rd Circuit du Massif Central :6th Tour of Flanders :7th Paris–Roubaix
;1926 : 1st Paris-Menin (fr) : 1st Circuit Vosges-Alsace : 1st Saint-Brieuc-Brest-Saint-Brieuc : 1st Grand Prix Alceida : 2nd Paris-Saint-Étienne (fr) :3rd Paris-Longwy (fr) :5th Scheldeprijs : 6th Paris–Brussels
;1927 : Tour de France :: 2nd Overall, @ + 1h 48' 21" :: 1st, Stage 2 (Dieppe - Le Havre), 103km :: 1st, Stage 13 (Perpignan - Marseille), 360km : 1st Paris-Menin (fr) :3rd Tour of Flanders :3rd Paris–Brussels
;1928 : Tour de France :: 3rd Overall, @ + 56' 16" :: 1st, Stage 8 (Bordeaux - Hendaye), 225km :: 1st, Stage 20 (Charleville - Malo-les-Bains), 271km : 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall Tour of the Basque Country :: 1st Stage 2 : 2nd Bordeaux–Paris : 6th Paris–Brussels
;1929 : Tour de France :: 1st [[File:Jersey gold.svg|20px]] Overall, 5254km in 186h 39' 16" (28.319km/h) :: 1st, Stage 20 (Charleville - Malo-les-Bains), 270km : 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall Tour of the Basque Country :: 1st Stage 3 : 2nd Paris–Brussels : 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium : 3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen :7th Paris–Tours
;1930 :4th Tour of Flanders :6th Paris–Roubaix
;1931 : 1st [[File:Jersey red.svg|20px]] Overall Tour of Belgium : 1st Lebbeke : 5th Overall Tour de France : 9th Road race, UCI World Championships
Grand Tour results timeline
References
References
- "Maurice De Waele". Cycling Archives.
- "Palmarès de Maurice De Waele (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu.
- (2023). "Maurice de Waele".
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