Edwig Van Hooydonck

Edwig Van Hooydonck (born 4 August 1966 in Ekeren) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He won the prestigious Tour of Flanders twice and Brabantse Pijl four times. Van Hooydonck retired from professional cycling because he felt he could no longer compete with other cyclists, who were at the time starting to dope themselves, without himself cheating too. At this time Erythropoietin (EPO) was becoming a widely used doping agent in the sport. He is the uncle of former professional cyclist Nathan Van Hooydonck.

One minor innovation in cycling credited to Van Hooydonk are three quarter length bibshorts. After he had aggravated a knee problem during the 1989 Tour of Flanders, he had cycling shorts made that stretched below the knee, as an alternative to bandaging the knee.

Major results

 * 1984
 * 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Road race, National Junior Road Championships


 * 1985
 * 7th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs


 * 1986
 * 1st Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
 * 2nd Paris–Troyes
 * 3rd Flèche Ardennaise
 * 5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe


 * 1987
 * 1st Brabantse Pijl
 * 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
 * 3rd Le Samyn
 * 5th Overall Ronde van Nederland
 * 1st Stage 5 (TTT)
 * 5th Overall Classic Brugge–De Panne
 * 5th Paris–Roubaix
 * 5th Züri-Metzgete
 * 10th Grand Prix des Nations
 * 10th Nokere Koerse


 * 1988
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
 * 1st Prologue
 * 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Sweden
 * 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 4th Brabantse Pijl
 * 5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 8th Firenze–Pistoia
 * 10th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt


 * 1989
 * 1st Tour of Flanders
 * 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
 * 1st Grand Prix de Denain
 * 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
 * 3rd Paris–Roubaix
 * 4th Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 5th Circuit des Frontières
 * 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt
 * 7th Brabantse Pijl
 * 8th Overall Classic Brugge–De Panne


 * 1990
 * 1st Dwars door België
 * 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Omloop Het Volk
 * 3rd Paris–Roubaix
 * 4th Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 7th Brabantse Pijl


 * 1991
 * 1st Tour of Flanders
 * 1st Brabantse Pijl
 * 1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 1st Schaal Sels
 * 1st Grand Prix de la Libération (TTT)
 * 3rd Omloop Het Volk
 * 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
 * 4th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
 * 5th Züri-Metzgete
 * 9th Overall Tour de l'Oise
 * 9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
 * 9th Circuit des Frontières
 * 9th Grand Prix des Amériques


 * 1992
 * 1st Grand Prix de Denain
 * 1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
 * 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Étoile de Bessèges
 * 3rd Tour of Flanders
 * 4th Overall Tour of Ireland
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 4th Brabantse Pijl
 * 6th Road race, National Road Championships
 * 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
 * 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
 * 10th Paris–Tours


 * 1993
 * 1st Brabantse Pijl
 * 1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie
 * 1st Stage 3b (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg
 * 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
 * 3rd Overall Tour de l'Oise
 * 3rd Overall Classic Brugge–De Panne
 * 3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
 * 5th Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 6th Paris–Roubaix
 * 7th Tour of Flanders
 * 8th Grand Prix des Nations
 * 10th Road race, National Road Championships


 * 1994
 * 4th Road race, National Road Championships
 * 5th Brabantse Pijl
 * 8th Tour du Haut Var
 * 8th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
 * 9th Tour of Flanders
 * 9th Druivenkoers Overijse


 * 1995
 * 1st Brabantse Pijl
 * 2nd Omloop Het Volk
 * 2nd Binche–Chimay–Binche
 * 3rd Clásica de Almería
 * 3rd Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 5th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
 * 7th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx


 * 1996
 * 2nd Brabantse Pijl
 * 2nd Dwars door België
 * 5th Omloop Het Volk
 * 9th Trofeo Laigueglia