Frans Verbeeck (cyclist)

Frans Verbeeck
	Verbeeck in 1973
Personal information
Full name	Frans Verbeeck
Nickname	Flying Milkman
Born	13 June 1941; Langdorp, Belgium
Died	21 August 2026 (aged 85)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1963	Marcel Kint–Reno
1964–1966	Wiel's–Groene Leeuw
1968–1969	Okay Whisky–Diamant
1970	Geens–Watney
1971–1972	Watneys–Avia
1973–1975	Maes–Watney
1976–1977	IJsboerke–Colnago
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 TTT Stage (1973) Stage races Tour de l'Oise (1970) Tour de Luxembourg (1975, 1976) One-day races and Classics Amstel Gold Race (1970); Omloop Het Volk (1970, 1972); National Road Race Championship (1973) La Flèche Wallonne (1974); E3 Prijs Vlaanderen (1975); Scheldeprijs (1976) Brabantse Pijl (1977);

Frans Verbeeck (13 June 1941 – 21 August 2026) was a Belgian road bicycle racer.^[1]

Verbeeck managed to win 66 races in an era of legendary cyclists like Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck, something he also combined for a long time with his job as a milkman. After his career, he became a successful businessman with his clothing company, Vermarc Sport.^[2]

Verbeeck at the start of the 1970 Amstel Gold Race

Verbeeck died on 21 August 2026, at the age of 85.^[3]

Major results

Source:^[4]

1964

1st GP Dr. Eugeen Roggeman

2nd Grand Prix de Denain

1965

2nd Frankfurt Grand Prix

3rd Grand Prix de Denain

1968

3rd GP Union Dortmund

1969

1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten

1st Circuit du Tournaisis

2nd Paris–Tours

2nd Druivenkoers Overijse

3rd Grote 1-MeiPrijs

1970

1st Omloop Het Volk

1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

1st Stage 1a Tour of Belgium

1st

Overall Tour de l'Oise

1st Stage 2

1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg

1st Flèche Hesbignonne

1st Omloop van de Fruitstreek

1st Brussels–Merchtem

1971

1st Amstel Gold Race

1st Grand Prix de Cannes

1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

1st Flèche Halloise

1st Stage 1 and 5 Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Stage 1, 3, 4 and 5 Tour de Luxembourg

1st Grand Prix de Monaco

1st Leeuwse Pijl

1st Circuit du Tournaisis

1st Grand Prix d'Antibes

1st Brussels–Merchtem

1st Hoeilaart–Diest–Hoeilaart

1972

1st GP Frans Verbeeck

1st Omloop Het Volk

1st Tour du Haut-Var

1st Grand Prix de Nice

1st Grand Prix de Monaco

1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stages 3 and 5a Tour of Belgium

1st Stages 1, 3 and 5 Tour du Nord

1st Leeuwse Pijl

1st Grand Prix de Saint-Tropez

1st Trèfle à Quatre Feuilles

3rd Tour of Flanders

1973

1st

National Road Race Championship

1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 2 Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 2a (TTT) Tour de France

1st Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen-Ichtegem

1st Grote Prijs Marcel Kint

1st Grand Prix de Saint-Tropez

1st Omloop van de Westkust

1st Flèche rebecquoise

2nd Tirreno–Adriatico

2nd Gent–Wevelgem

2nd Amstel Gold Race

2nd 1973 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

3rd Four Days of Dunkirk

3rd Paris–Brussels

3rd La Flèche Wallonne

3rd Paris–Tours

1974

1st La Flèche Wallonne

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

1st GP Frans Verbeeck

1st Prologue Tour of Belgium

1st Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg

1st Ronde van Limburg

1st Tour du Condroz

1st Grand Prix de Nice

1st Circuit du Tournaisis

1st Flèche rebecquoise

1st Omloop van Midden-Brabant

1st Grand Prix d'Orchies

2nd Tour of Flanders

2nd Brabantse Pijl

2nd Grand Prix de Cannes

2nd Tour de Luxembourg

2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

3rd E3 Harelbeke

3rd Frankfurt Grand Prix

3rd Championship of Zürich

3rd Grand Prix du Midi Libre

3rd Super Prestige Pernod

3rd GP Roeselare

1975

1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

1st GP Frans Verbeeck

1st Prologue A Ronde van Nederland

1st

Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 1 & 3

1st Hyon–Mons

2nd Tour of Flanders

2nd Gent–Wevelgem

2nd Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen-Ichtegem

2nd La Flèche Wallonne

2nd Frankfurt Grand Prix

2nd Tour of the Netherlands

2nd GP Roeselare

2nd Omloop van Midden-Brabant

2nd Flèche rebecquoise

3rd Tour Belgium

3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami

1976

1st GP Frans Verbeeck

1st 1976 Scheldeprijs

1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

1st Tour du Haut-Var

1st

Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stages 1 and 2

1st Grand Prix de Monaco

1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen

1st Grand Prix d'Antibes

1st Grand Prix de Saint-Tropez

1st Brussels–Biévène

1st Omloop van Midden-Brabant

2nd La Flèche Wallonne

2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami

2nd Frankfurt Grand Prix

2nd Coppa Agostoni

3rd Brabantse Pijl

3rd Gent–Wevelgem

3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège

3rd Grand Prix de Wallonie

1977

1st Brabantse Pijl

1st Druivenkoers Overijse

1st GP Stad Vilvoorde

1st Circuit de Wallonie

1st Omloop van West-Brabant

3rd Frankfurt Grand Prix

References

↑ "Frans VERBEECK". ProcyclingStats. 2022.
↑ "Frans "Hij rijdt 5 per uur te snel voor ons" Verbeeck is overleden: Vliegende Melkboer en oprichter Vermarc Sport". Sporza (in Dutch). 21 August 2026.
↑ Le cycliste belge Frans Verbeeck est décédé à l’âge de 85 ans (in French)
↑ "Frans Verbeeck". FirstCycling.com. 8 December 2023.

External links

Palmarès by velo-club.net at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 December 2008) (in French)
Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 October 2007) (in French)
Frans Verbeeck at IMDb

[1] "Frans VERBEECK". ProcyclingStats. 2022.

[2] "Frans "Hij rijdt 5 per uur te snel voor ons" Verbeeck is overleden: Vliegende Melkboer en oprichter Vermarc Sport". Sporza (in Dutch). 21 August 2026.

[3] Le cycliste belge Frans Verbeeck est décédé à l’âge de 85 ans (in French)

[4] "Frans Verbeeck". FirstCycling.com. 8 December 2023.

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Belgian National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Léon Houa (1894) Henri Luyten (1895–1896) Henri Bertrand (1897–1898) Jules Degeetere (1899)
1900–1919	Mathieu Quoidbach (1900) Paul Burger (1901) Jules Defrance (1902) Arthur Vanderstuyft (1903) Jules Sales (1904) Dieudonné Jamar (1905) Francois Verstraeten (1907–1908) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1909) Henri Hanlet (1910) Odile Defraye (1911) Omer Verschoore (1912) Joseph Van Daele (1913) Victor Dethier (1914) Jean Rossius (1919)
1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920–1921) René Vermandel (1922) Félix Sellier (1923) René Vermandel (1924) Gerard Debaets (1925) Félix Sellier (1926) August Mortelmans (1927) Joseph Dervaes (1928) Joseph Wauters (1929–1930) Alphonse Schepers (1931) Georges Lemaire (1932) Louis Duerloo (1933) Louis Roels (1934) Gustave Danneels (1935) Jean Aerts (1936) Karel Kaers (1937) Petrus Van Theemsche (1938) Marcel Kint (1939)
1940–1959	Odiel Van Den Meersschaut (1940) André Defoort (1941) André Maelbrancke (1942) Rik Van Steenbergen (1943, 1945) Émile Masson Jr. (1946–1947) Achiel Buysse (1948) Valère Ollivier (1949) Albert Ramon (1950) Lode Anthonis (1951) Jozef Schils (1952) Alois Vansteenkiste (1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Emiel Van Cauter (1955) André Vlayen (1956–1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Petrus Oellibrandt (1959)
1960–1979	Frans De Mulder (1960) Michel Van Aerde (1961) Jef Planckaert (1962) Rik Van Looy (1963) Edward Sels (1964) Walter Godefroot (1965) Guido Reybrouck (1966) Jozef Boons (1967) Julien Stevens (1968) Roger De Vlaeminck (1969) Eddy Merckx (1970) Herman Vanspringel (1971) Walter Godefroot (1972) Frans Verbeeck (1973) Roger Swerts (1974) Willy Teirlinck (1975) Freddy Maertens (1976) Michel Pollentier (1977–1978) Gery Verlinden (1979)
1980–1999	Jos Jacobs (1980) Roger De Vlaeminck (1981) Frank Hoste (1982) Lucien Van Impe (1983) Eric Vanderaerden (1984) Paul Haghedooren (1985) Marc Sergeant (1986) Ferdi Van Den Haute (1987) Etienne De Wilde (1988) Carlo Bomans (1989) Claude Criquielion (1990) Benjamin Van Itterbeeck (1991) Johan Museeuw (1992) Alain Van Den Bossche (1993) Wilfried Nelissen (1994–1995) Johan Museeuw (1996) Tom Steels (1997–1998) Ludo Dierckxsens (1999)
2000–2019	Axel Merckx (2000) Ludovic Capelle (2001) Tom Steels (2002) Geert Omloop (2003) Tom Steels (2004) Serge Baguet (2005) Niko Eeckhout (2006) Stijn Devolder (2007) Jürgen Roelandts (2008) Tom Boonen (2009) Stijn Devolder (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Stijn Devolder (2013) Jens Debusschere (2014) Preben Van Hecke (2015) Philippe Gilbert (2016) Oliver Naesen (2017) Yves Lampaert (2018) Tim Merlier (2019)
2020–2039	Dries De Bondt (2020) Wout van Aert (2021) Tim Merlier (2022) Remco Evenepoel (2023) Arnaud De Lie (2024) Tim Wellens (2025) Rune Herregodts (2026)