Rudy Matthijs

Rudy Matthijs (born 3 March 1959, in Eeklo) is a Belgian retired professional road bicycle racer. He won 4 stages in the Tour de France, 3 of which came during the 1985 Tour de France on stages 1 and 2, and then on the final stage of the tour with one of the biggest sprinter's stages in all of cycling on the Champs Elysees.

Major results

 * 1981
 * 1st Omloop Schelde-Durme
 * 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Aragón
 * 2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden
 * 3rd Polder–Kempen


 * 1982
 * 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
 * 1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
 * 2nd Omloop van het Leiedal
 * 3rd Nokere Koerse


 * 1983
 * 1st Ronde van Limburg
 * 1st Leeuwse Pijl
 * 1st Stage 3 Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg
 * 2nd Brabantse Pijl
 * 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
 * 7th Dwars door België
 * 9th Omloop Het Volk


 * 1984
 * 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
 * 1st Stages 2 & 4 Tour de Luxembourg
 * 1st Stage 5a (ITT) Four Days of Dunkirk
 * 2nd Dwars door België
 * 5th Tour of Flanders
 * 9th GP Stad Zottegem
 * 10th Paris–Roubaix


 * 1985
 * Tour de France
 * 1st Stages 1, 2 & 22
 * 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse
 * 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Aragón
 * 2nd GP Ouest–France
 * 2nd Leeuwse Pijl
 * 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
 * 1st Stages 1 & 3
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium
 * 8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne