Stan Ockers

Stan Ockers

Monument built for Stan Ockers
Personal information
Full name	Constant Ockers
Born	3 February 1920(1920-02-03) Belgium
Died	1 October 1956(1956-10-01) (aged 36)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948–1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956	Individual Helyett Metropole Metropole-Dunlop Groene Leeuw and Mondia Mondia and Garin-Wolber Metropole-Dunlop and Terrot-Wolber Girardengo and Terrot-Wolber Peugeot-Dunlop and Girardengo-Clement Peugeot-Dunlop and Girardengo Girardengo-Eldorado and Peugeot-Dunlop Elvé-Peugeot Elvé-Peugeot and Gardengo-Icep
Major wins
Tour de France green jersey (1955, 1956) La Flèche Wallonne (1955) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1955)
Medal record Competitor for  Belgium Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1955 Frascati Professional road race Bronze 1953 Lugano Professional road race
Infobox last updated on 3 January 2008

Constant ("Stan") Ockers (3 February 1920, Borgerhout – 1 October 1956, Antwerp) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist.

He was runner-up in the Tour de France in 1950 and 1952, and the best sprinter in that race in 1955 and 1956. In 1955 he won the Classic "Ardennes double" by winning La Flèche Wallonne and the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in the same year. At this time the races were run on successive days as "Le Weekend Ardennais". He also won the World Cycling Championship that year.

Stan Ockers died after crashing during a track race in Antwerp in 1956. A year later a monument was built in Les Forges, Sprimont, in the south of Belgium.

Palmarès

• Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 1955, 2nd 1956, 3rd (1952, 1953)
• Trophée Gentil: 1955

• World road champion 1955
• Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1955
• Flèche Wallonne 1953, 1955
• Weekend Ardennais 1955
• Tour de Belgique 1948
• Rome–Naples–Rome 1956
• Grand Prix de l'Escaut 1941, 1946
• 3 stages Tour de France
• Points Classification Tour de France 1955, 1956

• 2nd Tour de France 1950
• 2nd Paris–Roubaix 1954
• 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen 1956
• 2nd Bordeaux–Paris 1956
• 2nd Tour de Suisse 1955
• 2nd Bruxelles-Couvin 1956
• 2nd Critérium des As 1952, 1953
• 2nd Circuit des Ardennes Flamandes 1948
• 2nd Grand Prix Martini 1955, 1956

External links

• Stan Ockers profile at Cycling Archives

Persondata
Name	Ockers, Stan
Alternative names
Short description	cyclist
Date of birth	3 February 1920
Place of birth	Borgerhout, Belgium
Date of death	1 October 1956
Place of death	Antwerp, Belgium