passes his statue. Career achievements Major results 1968 1st Overall Ronde van Midden-Zeeland 1st Stage 1 1st Team time trial, Olympic Games 1969 1st Overall Circuit de Lorraine 1st Stage 1a 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir 3rd Overall Tour of Austria 1st Stage 2b, 3 & 6 1970 1st Stage 2b Paris–Luxembourg 2nd Overall Tour de France 2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 5th Brabantse Pijl 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 1971 1st Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Tour de France 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 2nd Grand Prix des Nations 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 1st Stage 4b 4th La Flèche Wallonne 6th Overall Vuelta a España 1st Mountains classification 1st Stage 16 9th Brabantse Pijl 1972 1st Trophée des Grimpeurs 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 2nd Grand Prix des Nations 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium 3rd Overall À travers Lausanne 3rd Amstel Gold Race 4th Overall Tour de la Nouvelle-France 5th Overall Tour de France 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 6th Giro di Lombardia 10th Overall Paris–Nice 1973 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Tour du Haut Var 1st Stage 1a Escalada a Montjuïc 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Stage 1a & 2 2nd Overall Grand Prix de Fourmies 2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Stage 2b 3rd Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 7b (ITT) 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 3rd Grand Prix des Nations 4th Overall Tour de France 1st Combination classification 1st Prologue & Stage 4 4th Amstel Gold Race 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 5th Tour of Flanders 9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1974 1st Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stages 6a (ITT) & 7b (ITT) 1st Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 4 1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 1st Stage 5 1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges 9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 1st Stage 2 1975 1st Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stages 6a (ITT) & 7b (ITT) 1st Overall Ronde van Nederland 1st Stage 4 1st Overall À travers Lausanne 1st Stage 1 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 2nd Overall Escalada a Montjuïc 1st Stage 1b 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Grand Prix des Nations 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré