Marcel Kint (20 September 1914, in Zwevegem – 23 March 2002, in Kortrijk) 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  Junior National Road Race Championships Interclubs
 2nd  Road race, World Road Championships
 2nd GP du Locle
 9th Tour of Flanders
 10th Paris–Roubaix
1947
 1st  Junior 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)

References

External links 

Official Tour de France results for Marcel Kint

1914 births
2002 deaths
Belgian male cyclists
Belgian Tour de France stage winners
UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
People from Zwevegem
Cyclists from West Flanders