Rudy Pevenage

::1 individual stage (1980) :**Giro d'Italia** ::1 TTT stage ([1985](1985-giro-d-italia)) **Rudy Pévenage** (15 June 1954) is a former Belgian cyclist, and later in his career team coach of cycling teams such as , , , and . Pévenage was a professional cyclist from 1976 until 1988. His largest success was in the [1980 Tour de France](1980-tour-de-france): he won one stage and won the points classification. He reached second place in the [1979 Tour de Suisse](1979-tour-de-suisse). He also spent nine days in the yellow jersey, leading the general classification in the Tour de France. His nickname was *de rosse van Moerbeke*. After his cycling career, Pévenage became a team manager. Pévenage was team manager of Deutsche Telekom when Jan Ullrich started his career. In 2002, when Ullrich was forced to leave the team, Pévenage followed Ullrich to his new team Bianchi. After a good 2003 Tour de France, Ullrich returned to Telekom, without Pévenage. In 2006, Pévenage returned to Telekom (then renamed T-Mobile). When Ullrich was suspected of using illegal doping in *Operación Puerto* and was fired by T-Mobile Team, Pévenage also had to leave. He was rumoured to have worked as a connection between Ullrich and the Spanish Eufemiano Fuentes. ## Major results Source: ;1976 : 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 : 3rd Circuit de Wallonie : 7th Druivenkoers Overijse ;1977 : 2nd Le Samyn : 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland ::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen : 4th Leeuwse Pijl : 6th Milano–Torino : 7th [Dwars door België](1977-dwars-door-belgie) : 7th Brussels Cycling Classic : 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 9th [Paris–Tours](1977-grand-prix-d-automne) ;1978 : 2nd Leeuwse Pijl : 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland : 3rd Ronde van Limburg : 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 7th Trofeo Laigueglia ;1979 : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol : 2nd Overall [Tour de Suisse](1979-tour-de-suisse) : 3rd Circuit des Frontières : 4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton ;1980 : 1st Points classification [Tour de France](1980-tour-de-france) ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Druivenkoers Overijse : 4th Brabantse Pijl : 6th Eschborn–Frankfurt : 8th Züri-Metzgete : 10th [E3 Prijs Vlaanderen](1980-e3-prijs-vlaanderen) ;1981 : 1st Tour de Berne : 1st Druivenkoers Overijse : 1st Omloop van het Houtland : 2nd 1981 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 4th 1981 Amstel Gold Race : 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 4th Brussels Cycling Classic : 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 7th [Liège–Bastogne–Liège](1981-liege-bastogne-liege) : 7th [La Flèche Wallonne](1981-la-fleche-wallonne) : 9th Nokere Koerse : 9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen ;1982 : 3rd [Tour of Flanders](1982-tour-of-flanders) : 4th Tour de Berne : 4th Grand Prix de Wallonie : 4th Brussels Cycling Classic : 6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme : 6th [E3 Prijs Vlaanderen](1982-e3-prijs-vlaanderen) : 6th Trofeo Laigueglia ;1983 : 3rd Coppa Bernocchi : 6th Milano–Torino ;1984 : 2nd Trofeo Pantalica : 2nd GP Montelupo : 4th Trofeo Laigueglia : 7th Coppa Sabatini ;1985 : 1st Stage 2 (TTT) [Giro d'Italia](1985-giro-d-italia) : 9th Züri-Metzgete ### General classification results timeline ::data[format=table] | Grand Tour | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=List of Vuelta a España general classification winners]] Vuelta a España | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia]] Giro d'Italia | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France]] Tour de France | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | [—](1978-vuelta-a-espana) | [—](1979-vuelta-a-espana) | [—](1980-vuelta-a-espana) | [—](1981-vuelta-a-espana) | [—](1982-vuelta-a-espana) | [DNF](1983-vuelta-a-espana) | [DNF](1984-vuelta-a-espana) | [—](1985-vuelta-a-espana) | | | | | | [DNF](1978-giro-d-italia) | [—](1979-giro-d-italia) | [—](1980-giro-d-italia) | [—](1981-giro-d-italia) | [—](1982-giro-d-italia) | [106](1983-giro-d-italia) | [61](1984-giro-d-italia) | [58](1985-giro-d-italia) | | | | | | [—](1978-tour-de-france) | [23](1979-tour-de-france) | [42](1980-tour-de-france) | [75](1981-tour-de-france) | [73](1982-tour-de-france) | [—](1983-tour-de-france) | [—](1984-tour-de-france) | [—](1985-tour-de-france) | | | | | :: ::data[format=table title="Legend"] | — | DNF | |---|---| | Did not compete | | | Did not finish | | :: ## References ## References 1. (30 November 2008). ["Rock Racing hires Rudy Pevenage"](https://www.velonews.com/news/road/rock-racing-hires-rudy-pevenage/). 2. (19 May 2020). ["Rudy Pevenage: If I wrote a doping book, it would be crazy"](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/rudy-pevenage-if-i-wrote-a-doping-book-it-would-be-crazy/). 3. (9 November 2004). [""Preparing for next season sooner", An interview with Rudy Pevenage"](http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2004/interviews/?id=rudy_pevenage04). *Deutsche Welle*. 4. (10 July 2006). ["T-Mobile Sacks Ullrich Mentor"](http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2085183,00.html). 5. ["Rudy Pevenage"](https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/rudy-pevenage). ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Pevenage) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. 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