fullname updated death_date birth_place majorwins discipline birth_date role article_title name
marc demeyer 2007-10-16 20 january 1982 belgium paris -- roubaix -lrb- 1976 -rrb- road 19 april 1950 rider marc demeyer
 marc demeyer
marc demeyer

marc demeyer -lrb- 19 april 1950 -- 20 january 1982 -rrb- was a professional road racing cyclist from avelgem , belgium .
he died of a heart attack at the age of 31 .
demeyer turned professional in 1972 for the flandria team managed by briek schotte .
he signed the contract while resting it on a car beside the start of dwars door belgië , which he then won .
shortly afterwards he won the gp d'isbergues .
demeyer was one of the so-called `` three musketeers '' , riding with and for freddy maertens and michel pollentier he led out sprints for maertens in particular but could win them for himself , including stages of the tour de france .
he rode the tour six times , finishing 72nd in 1973 , 41st in 1974 , 42nd in 1975 , 56th in 1976 , 49th in 1978 and 57th in 1979 .
he won the intermediate sprints competition , known then as points chaud -lrb- ` hot spot sprints ' -rrb- in the tours of 1973 and 1975 .
he won two stages : the 19th in 1978 from lausanne to belfort , and the 14th in 1979 from belfort to evian-les-bains .
in 1974 he won paris -- brussels and two years later paris -- roubaix .
