page_title: Eric Vanderaerden
section_title: Major results
hierarchical_section_title: Eric Vanderaerden / Major results
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Na zijn overwinning in 1991. Een jaar eerder maakte de Limburger de overstap van Panasonic naar Buckler en blijft daarmee in Nederlandse loondienst.
context_page_description: Eric Vanderaerden is a retired road cyclist from the town of Lummen, Belgium.
  He was a considerable talent, winning the prologue time trial of both the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France in his professional debut year 1983. In subsequent years, he won two monument races: in 1985, at 23, he won the storm ridden edition of the Tour of Flanders, and in 1987 he won Paris–Roubaix. In the Tour de France, his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage. The following year, he won the green jersey.
  After 1988, his career went in decline and, despite his talent, he failed to win major races. He certainly had considerable talent as a time trial racer, but as a climber in the mountains his talent was limited. Perhaps, he was partly a victim of the high expectations the Belgian public had to get a successor for Eddy Merckx, a cyclist who was very versatile in winning both classic races and big stage races.
  After his active career, Vanderaerden has led a few semi-professional racing teams and was also assistant-manager of a professional Belgo-Italian team.
context_section_description: 1983
  Tour de France
  1st Prologue
  Held  for two days
  Vuelta a España
  1st Stages 2 & 11
  3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
  4th Milan–San Remo
  5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
  1984
  1st  Road race, National Road Championships
  Tour de France
  1st Stages 10 & 23
  Tour de Suisse
  1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 7
  1st Paris–Brussels
  2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
  2nd Gent–Wevelgem
  2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm
  3rd Milan–San Remo
  9th Omloop Het Volk
  10th Tour of Flanders
  10th Nokere Koerse
  1985
  Tour de France
  1st Stages 13 (ITT) & 19
  Held  for three days
  1st Tour of Flanders
  1st Gent–Wevelgem
  1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  1st Ronde van Nederland
  1st Stage 5 Tour de Suisse
  2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
  4th Milan–San Remo
  4th Rund um den Henninger Turm
  1986
  1st  Points classification Tour de France
  1st  Overall Three Days of De Panne
  1st Halle–Ingooigem
  1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
  1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
  1st Trofeo Isla de Mallorca
  3rd Scheldeprijs
  10th Tour of Flanders
  1987
  1st  Overall Three Days of De Panne
  1st Paris–Roubaix
  1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  2nd Milan–San Remo
  3rd Tour of Flanders
  5th Omloop Het Volk
  8th Gent–Wevelgem
  1988
  1st  Overall Three Days of De Panne
  1st Ronde van Limburg
  1989
  1st  Overall Three Days of De Panne
  1st  Overall Nissan Classic
  1st GP Impanis
  1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse
  4th Gent–Wevelgem
  5th Omloop Het Volk
  1990
  Etoile de Bessèges
  1st Stage 2 & 3
  1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico
  1st Six Days of Antwerp
  2nd Scheldeprijs
  3rd Binche–Tournai–Binche
  8th Omloop Het Volk
  9th Overall Three Days of De Panne
  1991
  1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
  2nd Le Samyn
  3rd Milan–San Remo
  4th Gent–Wevelgem
  5th Amstel Gold Race
  1992
  1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España
  1st GP Wielerrevue
  2nd Le Samyn
  3rd Omloop Het Volk
  3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
  1993
  1st  Overall Three Days of De Panne
  1st Stage 3 Etoile de Bessèges
  2nd Gent–Wevelgem
  3rd Omloop Het Volk
  8th Le Samyn
  1995
  4th Scheldeprijs
  6th Paris–Roubaix
  1996
  3rd Scheldeprijs
caption: Eric Vanderaerden gives an interview after victory during Dwars door Vlaanderen 1991 (Maurice Terryn, collection KOERS. Museum of Cycle Racing)
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