# Edwig Van Hooydonck

Edwig Van Hooydonck (born 4 August 1966) 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 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 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