Roger Swerts
{{short description|Belgian cyclist}}
{{use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name = Roger Swerts
| image = Roger Swerts c1973.jpg
| caption = Swerts c. 1973
| full_name = Roger Swerts
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|12|28}}
| birth_place = Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
| height = 180 cm
| weight = 75 kg
| currentteam = Retired
| discipline = Road
| role = Rider
| ridertype =
| amateuryears1 =
| amateurteam1 =
| proyears1 = 1965–1967
| proteam1 = Mercier-BP-Hutchinson
| proyears2 = 1968–1970
| proteam2 = Faema
| proyears3 = 1971–1973
| proteam3 = Molteni
| proyears4 = 1974–1975
| proteam4 = IJsboerke–Colner
| proyears5 = 1976
| proteam5 = Molteni–Campagnolo
| proyears6 = 1977
| proteam6 = Fiat
| proyears7 = 1978
| proteam7 = Old Lord's–Splendor–K.S.B.
| majorwins = Grand Tours
::1 individual stage (1972)
::1 TTT stage (1973)
::5 individual stages (1973, 1974, 1975)
::1 TTT stage (1973)
:National Road Race Championship (1974)
| show-medals = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's road bicycle racing}}
{{MedalCountry| {{BEL}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|1965 San Sebastián|Road race}}
}}
Roger Swerts (born 28 December 1942) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. As an amateur he placed 18th in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sw/roger-swerts-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084557/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sw/roger-swerts-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Roger Swerts Olympic Results |access-date=18 August 2014 |work=sports-reference.com}} and won a bronze medal at the 1965 UCI Road World Championships. He turned professional later in 1965.{{cycling Archives|6851}}
Major results
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;1962
: 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
::1st Stage 5
;1964
: 1st Stage 10 Tour de l'Avenir
;1965
: 3rd 15px Road race, UCI Road World Championships
: 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
: 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
: 7th Overall Course de la Paix
;1966
: 1st Stage 2b (TTT) Tour of Belgium
: 4th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke
: 5th Road race, National Road Championships
: 5th La Flèche Wallonne
: 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
: 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
;1967
: 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
;1968
: 1st Grand Prix de Monaco
: 1st Stage 6a Volta a Catalunya
: 4th Brabantse Pijl
: 4th Heist-op-den-Berg
: 5th Sassari-Cagliari
: 6th Overall Tour of Belgium
: 8th Giro del Veneto
: 8th Omloop der Zennevallei
;1969
: 1st Züri–Metzgete
: 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Tour de France
: 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
: 6th Overall Giro di Sardegna
: 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
: 6th Trofeo Laigueglia
: 6th Omloop van de Fruitstreek
: 7th Druivenkoers Overijse
;1970
: 1st Stage 3a (TTT) Tour de France
;1971
: 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
: 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour de France
: 2nd Brussels–Ingooige
: 4th Züri–Metzgete
: 6th Paris–Tours
: 8th Amstel Gold Race
: 8th Brabantse Pijl
: 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
;1972
: 1st 20px Overall Tour of Belgium
::1st Stages 4 & 5b (ITT)
: 1st Gent–Wevelgem
: 1st Grand Prix des Nations
: 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Eddy Merckx)
: 1st Stage 12b (ITT) Giro d'Italia
: 1st Stage 1a (ITT) Escalada a Montjuïc
: 1st Stage 3b (TTT) Tour de France
: 2nd Gran Premio di Lugano
: 3rd Brabantse Pijl
: 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
: 6th Tour of Flanders
: 9th Tour du Condroz
: 10th La Flèche Wallonne
: 10th Züri–Metzgete
;1973
: 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
: 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium
::1st Prologue (TTT)
::Held 20px after Prologue
: 3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
: 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
::1st Stage 5b (ITT)
: 7th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
: 9th Road race, National Road Championships
: 9th Overall Vuelta a España
::1st Stages 6a & 6b (TTT)
;1974
: 1st 20px Road race, National Road Championships
: 1st 20px Overall Tour of Belgium
: 7th Brabantse Pijl
: 8th Ronde van Limburg
: 9th Circuit des Onze Villes
: 10th Overall Vuelta a España
::1st Prologue, Stages 8a & 12
::Held 20px after Prologue & Stage 1
: 10th Gent–Wevelgem
;1975
: 1st Heist-op-den-Berg
::1st Prologue
::Held 20px after Prologue & Stage 1
: 3rd Dwars door België
: 5th Road race, National Road Championships
: 5th Overall Tour of Belgium
: 7th Paris–Roubaix
: 8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
: 9th Gent–Wevelgem
: 9th Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen
;1976
: 7th Amstel Gold Race
: 8th Brabantse Pijl
;1977
: 8th Overall Tour of Belgium
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=Grand Tour general classification results timeline=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Grand Tour
! scope="col" | 1965 ! scope="col" | 1966 ! scope="col" | 1967 ! scope="col" | 1968 ! scope="col" | 1969 ! scope="col" | 1970 ! scope="col" | 1971 ! scope="col" | 1972 ! scope="col" | 1973 ! scope="col" | 1974 ! scope="col" | 1975 ! scope="col" | 1976 ! scope="col" | 1977 ! scope="col" | 1978 |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | File:Jersey yellow.svg Vuelta a España |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |style="background:#ddddff;"|9 |style="background:#ddddff;"|10 |29 |— |— |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia |— |— |— |25 |— |53 |21 |16 |20 |— |— |— |— |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France |41 |63 |54 |— |44 |24 |35 |14 |— |— |— |— |— |— |
=Classics results timeline=
| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" colspan=19 align=center| Monuments results timeline |
| Monument
! scope="col" | 1965 ! scope="col" | 1966 ! scope="col" | 1967 ! scope="col" | 1968 ! scope="col" | 1969 ! scope="col" | 1970 ! scope="col" | 1971 ! scope="col" | 1972 ! scope="col" | 1973 ! scope="col" | 1974 ! scope="col" | 1975 ! scope="col" | 1976 ! scope="col" | 1977 ! scope="col" | 1978 |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|Milan–San Remo |— |— |— |— |— |143 |— |30 |34 |26 |35 |55 |— |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|Tour of Flanders |— |— |14 |— |— |— |61 |style="background:#ddddff;"|6 |— |14 |18 |— |— |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|Paris–Roubaix |— |— |15 |29 |— |— |— |12 |— |— |style="background:#ddddff;"|7 |17 |— |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|Liège–Bastogne–Liège |— |style="background:#ddddff;"|6 |19 |— |style="background:#ddddff;"|6 |— |— |style="background:#ddddff;"|4 |— |— |— |— |— |45 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|Giro di Lombardia | style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;" colspan=14|Did not contest during career |
= Major championship results timeline =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" |
! scope="col" | 1965 ! scope="col" | 1966 ! scope="col" | 1967 ! scope="col" | 1968 ! scope="col" | 1969 ! scope="col" | 1970 ! scope="col" | 1971 ! scope="col" | 1972 ! scope="col" | 1973 ! scope="col" | 1974 ! scope="col" | 1975 ! scope="col" | 1976 ! scope="col" | 1977 ! scope="col" | 1978 |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|File:Jersey rainbow.svg World Championships |style="text-align:center; background:#C9AE5D;"|3 |— |— |— |style="background:#ddf;"|5 |— |style="background:#ddf;"|10 |DNF |— |DNF |— |— |— |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|File:MaillotBélgica.svg National Championships |37 |style="text-align:center; background:#ddf;"|5 |14 |— |27 |18 |11 |16 |style="text-align:center; background:#ddf;"|9 |style="text-align:center; background:gold;"|1 |style="text-align:center; background:#ddf;"|5 |22 |— |— |
| class="wikitable"
|+ Legend |
| scope="row" | —
| Did not compete |
|---|
| scope="row" | DNF
| Did not finish |
References
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External links
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{{Belgian National Road Race Championships (men) |state=collapsed}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Swerts, Roger}}
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