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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External links
- {{Cycling Archives|5301}}
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Category:People from Stein, Limburg
Category:Cyclists from Limburg (Netherlands)
Category:20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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