# Marcel Kint

Marcel Kint (20 September 1914 – 23 March 2002) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won 31 races between 1935 and 1951. His finest year was 1938 when he won the World Cycling Championship, three stages of the Tour de France and the season-long competition equivalent to today's UCI ProTour.
He specialized in one-day classic cycle races and won Paris–Roubaix, Gent–Wevelgem, Paris–Brussels. He was the only three-time consecutive winner of La Flèche Wallonne until 2016 when Alejandro Valverde won his third consecutive race and fourth overall.
Kints honours would have been much bigger but at his sporting peak, his career was halted for a few years by World War II.
The outbreak of the war would make Marcel Kint the longest reigning world champion in the history of cycling. Kint would hold the rainbow jersey until 1946: eight years, and it could have been nine. In the final of the 1946 world championship in Zurich, Kint and Swiss rider Hans Knecht were riding to the finish, when Kint was stopped by fanatical home supporters, causing him to finish second.

## Major results
### Road
#### 1933

    1st Junior National Road Race Championships

#### 1934

    1st stage 1 Tour of Belgium independents

#### 1935

    1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    1st Stage 7 Tour de Luxembourg
    1st Bruxelles-Liège
    1st Ronde van Vlaanderen independents
    1st Overall Tour of Belgium independents
    Grote Prijs van Zwevegem
    1st Jemeppe-Marche-Jemeppe
    2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

#### 1936

    1st Antwerpen–Gent–Antwerpen
    1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium
    4th Overall Paris–Nice
    9th Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 19

#### 1937

    1st Gent–Ieper
    2nd La Flèche Wallonne
    2nd Paris–Lille
    6th Paris–Brussels
    10th Overall Paris–Nice

#### 1938

    1st Road race, World Road Championships
    1st Paris–Brussels
    1st GP d'Espéraza
    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    3rd Tour of Flanders
    3rd National Road Race Championships
    7th Paris–Tours
    9th Overall Tour de France
       1st Stages 15, 16 & 18

#### 1939

    1st Stages 8A & 18B Tour de France
    1st National Road Race Championships
    1st Antwerpen–Gent–Antwerpen
    1st Ransart-Beaumont-Ransart
    1st GP Stad Zottegem
    2nd Paris–Roubaix
    5th Paris–Brussels
    5th Bordeaux–Paris

#### 1939

    1st Circuit de Belgique

#### 1942

    1st Gullegem Koerse

#### 1943

    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    1st Paris–Roubaix
    1st Ronde van Limburg
    1st Brussels-Paris
    1st Circuit de Belgique
    5th Tour of Flanders
    8th Paris–Tours

#### 1944

    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    1st Grand Prix Jules Lowie
    1st Grand Prix du Printemps
    9th Tour of Flanders
    1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé

#### 1945

    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    1st Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen Ichtegem
    1st Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
    2nd Textielprijs Vichte

#### 1946

    1st National Road Race Championships Interclubs
    2nd Road race, World Road Championships
    2nd GP du Locle
    9th Tour of Flanders
    10th Paris–Roubaix

#### 1947

    1st National Road Race Championships Interclubs

#### 1949

    1st Gent–Wevelgem
    2nd Gullegem Koerse
    2nd Textielprijs Vichte
    4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

#### 1950

    5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    8th Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma
    10th Paris–Roubaix

#### 1951

    1st Elfstedenronde
    7th La Flèche Wallonne
    9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

### Track
#### 1946

    1st Prix Hourlier-Comès (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

#### 1947

    1st Six Hours of Zürich (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

#### 1948

    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
    1st Trophée des Routiers (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

#### 1949

    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
    3nd Six Days of Paris (with Rik Van Steenbergen)