1955 Tour of Flanders

39th Tour of Flanders Louison Bobet (1951).jpg Louison Bobet, the first French winner of the Tour of Flanders 220 27 March 1955 1 263 km 7h 27' Louison Bobet FRA Bobet–BP–Hutchinson Hugo Koblet SUI Faema–Guerra Rik Van Steenbergen BEL Elvé–Peugeot 1954 1956 The 39th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 27 March 1955. French rider Louison Bobet won the race in a three-man sprint with Hugo Koblet and Rik Van Steenbergen.Vanwalleghem, Rik (1991), De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Pinguin, Belgium, 90-73322-02-2, p 112 47 of 203 riders finished.McGann McGann Bill Carol http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/classics/Tour%20of%20Flanders/1955-tour-of-flanders.html 1955 Ronde van Vlaanderen results BikeRaceInfo McGann Publishing Cherokee Village, AR 29 February 2016 Race Report Rik Van Steenbergen was in an early breakaway with 12 riders and was first on the Kluisberg and Kruisberg. In Geraardsbergen, just after the peloton caught the group, Van Steenbergen, Louison Bobet, Bernard Gauthier and Hugo Koblet broke away on the steep Kloosterstraat. Gauthier did most of the work in the four-man group for his team leader Bobet. Van Steenbergen, favourite to win in the sprint, paid his earlier efforts and was beaten by Bobet and Koblet. Louison Bobet, a three-time winner of the Tour de France, secured the first ever victory for a French rider in the Tour of Flanders. Route The race started in Ghent and finished in Wetteren – totaling 263 km. The course featured four categorized climbs: Kluisberg Kruisberg Edelareberg Kloosterstraat (Geraardsbergen) Results 1 Louison Bobet FRA Bobet–BP–Hutchinson 7h 27' 00" 2 Hugo Koblet SUI Faema–Guerra s.t. 3 Rik Van Steenbergen BEL Libertas s.t. 4 Bernard Gauthier FRA Mercier–Hutchinson + 5" 5 Karel De Baere BEL Mercier–Hutchinson + 22" 6 Jean Bellay FRA Mercier–Hutchinson s.t. 7 Roger Decock BEL Van Hauwaert–Maes Pils + 28" 8 Marcel Rijckaert BEL Tebag + 33" 9 Germain Derijcke BEL Alcyon–Dunlop s.t. 10 Lode Anthonis BEL L'Avenir s.t. References 1955 Category:1955 in road cycling Category:1955 in Belgian sport Category:1955 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo Category:March 1955 sports events in Europe