# Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke

Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (born 31 May 1955) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, track cyclist and directeur sportif. He is an uncle of Frank Vandenbroucke. He was a prologue specialist, winning 19 prologues throughout his career.

## Cycling career

He won the one-day classic Blois-Chaville (a reconfigured version of Paris–Tours) in 1982. However, certain victory in the race was snatched from Laurent Fignon, who broke a pedal crank while in the lead near the finish.

## Major results
### 1975

    1st Flèche Ardennaise
    1st Omloop van de Westhoek
    5th Omloop van het Houtland
    9th Circuit des Frontières
    9th Grand Prix des Nations

### 1976

    1st Overall Étoile des Espoirs
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    1st Omloop van het Zuidwesten
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Milan–San Remo
    5th Paris–Tours
    7th Tour du Condroz
    8th Grand Prix des Nations
    9th Overall Tour de l'Aude

### 1977

    1st Overall Étoile des Espoirs
    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    1st Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    2nd Giro di Lombardia
    3rd Overall Paris–Nice
    3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    4th Dwars door België
    4th Omloop Het Volk
    4th Grand Prix des Nations
    5th Overall Tour de l'Aude
    5th Tour du Haut Var
    5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    6th Overall Ronde van Nederland
    6th Giro dell'Emilia
    7th Road race, National Road Championships
    7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
    9th Paris–Brussels
    10th Milan–San Remo

### 1978

    1st Circuit des Frontières
    1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 2b Tour de l'Aude
    1st Prologue Tour de Corse
    3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
    3rd Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
       1st Stage 2a
    3rd Tour du Haut Var
    3rd Paris–Brussels
    4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    5th Tour of Flanders
    6th Grand Prix de Monaco
    7th Grand Prix des Nations

### 1979

    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    Étoile des Espoirs
       1st Prologue & Stage 2
    2nd Omloop van het Zuidwesten
    3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
    4th Giro di Lombardia
    5th Paris–Tours
    7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
    7th Paris–Brussels
    9th Dwars door België

### 1980

    1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Stage 4b (ITT)
    1st Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
       1st Stage 2a (ITT)
    1st Grand Prix des Nations
    1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Alfons De Wolf)
    6th Tour du Haut Var
    7th Giro di Lombardia
    8th Overall Paris–Nice
       1st Stage 6
    8th Overall Étoile des Espoirs
       1st Stage 5
    8th Omloop Het Volk

### 1981

    1st Overall Tour de l'Oise
       1st Stage 2b
    1st Stage 1 Four Days of Dunkirk
    2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    3rd Omloop Het Volk
    3rd Tour du Haut Var
    5th Tour of Flanders
    7th Overall Tour de l'Aude
       1st Prologue
    9th Overall Paris–Nice
       1st Stage 7a

### 1982

    1st Overall Étoile des Espoirs
       1st Stage 5b (ITT)
    1st Paris–Tours
    1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude
    2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise
       1st Prologue
    2nd Dwars door België
    3rd Overall Paris–Nice
    3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
    3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    4th Giro di Lombardia
    5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
    5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Prologue

### 1983

    1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen
    Étoile des Espoirs
       1st Prologue & Stage 6 (ITT)
    2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
    4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    4th Overall Tour de l'Aude
       1st Prologue
    4th Grand Prix des Nations
    7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

### 1984

    1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude
    2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    2nd Omloop Het Volk
    2nd Critérium des As
    2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    3rd Tour of Flanders
    5th Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Prologue & Stage 4a (ITT)
    5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
    6th Paris–Roubaix
    6th Grand Prix des Nations
    7th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    7th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
    8th Trofeo Baracchi
    9th Paris–Tours
    10th GP du canton d'Argovie

### 1985

    1st Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Prologue
    1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    1st Prologue Tour de l'Aude
    3rd Grand Prix des Nations
    5th Paris–Tours
    8th Nice–Alassio
    9th Paris–Brussels
    10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

### 1986

    1st Overall Tour de l'Aude
    3rd Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    5th Overall Tour de l'Oise
    5th Grand Prix Cerami

### 1987

    Vuelta a España
       1st Prologue
       Held & after Prologue
    1st Prologue Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 7 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía
    1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    3rd Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    7th Circuit des Frontières
    8th Overall Tour de l'Oise
    9th Overall Tour d'Armorique
    10th Le Samyn

### 1988

    1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen