Wim Schepers

{{short description|Dutch cyclist}}

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| name = Wim Schepers

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| caption = Wim Schepers during the 1967 Tour de France.

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| birth_date = 25 September 1943

| birth_place = Stein, Netherlands

| death_date = 25 September 1998 (aged 55)

| death_place = Meers, Stein, Netherlands

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| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

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| proyears1 = 1966–1971

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|Caballero|1966}}

| proyears2 = 1972–1973

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Rokado|1972}}

| proyears3 = 1974–1975

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|Miko–de Gribaldy|1974}}

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Wim Schepers (25 September 1943 – 25 September 1998) was a Dutch professional road cyclist. A professional from 1966 to 1975, he won two stages of the 1970 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and finished second in the 1972 Liège–Bastogne–Liège to Eddy Merckx.{{cite web | url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=168596 | title=Wim Schepers | work=ProCclingStats | accessdate=14 March 2019}}

After the final stage of the 1971 Vuelta a España, Schepers was ranked in second place, 19 seconds behind Ferdinand Bracke, but he was given a ten-minute time penalty for a doping offence, and dropped to 15th.{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1971/05/17/pagina-31/963605/pdf.html|title=Clasificaciones Oficiales|work=El Mundo Deportivo|language=Spanish|date=17 May 1971}}

Major results

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;1965

: 1st Stages 1 & 6 Tour of Austria

;1966

: 1st Manx Trophy

: 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

;1967

: 3rd National Road Race Championships

: 4th Amstel Gold Race

;1968

: 4th Rund um den Henninger Turm

: 5th Amstel Gold Race

: 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

: 9th Overall Tour of Belgium

;1969

: 1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde

: 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium

;1970

: 1st Stages 2a & 2b Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

: 1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk

: 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm

: 10th Amstel Gold Race

;1971

: 10th Overall Tour of Belgium

;1972

: 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège

: 4th Rund um den Henninger Turm

: 8th La Flèche Wallonne

: 9th Gent–Wevelgem

;1973

: 4th Rund um den Henninger Turm

: 10th Züri-Metzgete

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References

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