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Eddy Planckaert (Nevele, September 22, 1958) is a former Belgian cyclist from a cycling family. His two older brothers Willy and Walter were also professional cyclists in the past. His cousin Jo Planckaert was also a professional cyclist. His son Francesco also tried to break through as a professional cyclist, but could not continue the successes achieved in his youth and stopped in 2006. In his career, Planckaert drove successively at Mini Flat - Vermeer Thijs, Splendor, Panasonic (Peter Post's team), AD Renting and again at Panasonic. His greatest successes included two victories in the Omloop Het Volk, the Brabantse Pijl, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. He also won several stages in the Tour de France, Vuelta and in the Giro d'Italia. He also conquered the green jersey in the Tour de France. One of his greatest victories was Paris-Roubaix in 1990 where he beat Steve Bauer with a tire thickness in the velodrome in Roubaix (Robaais). After his career, Planckaert took over a sawmill in Lithuania. However, he left this company after a while and started over in Poland, but went bankrupt there after a year. Eventually he returned to Belgium and came into the picture again through the reality soap "De Planckaerts". This follows the Planckaert family who lives in a house in the woods in the Ardennes. In 2007 Planckaert became sports director for the Belgian team Jartazi. In 2009 he participated in the television program M! LF on the commercial channel 2BE. He won the final of a contest for BVs for sponsorship of the program, defeating Tom Waes.
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