List of career achievements by Rik Van Steenbergen
# List of career achievements by Rik Van Steenbergen

This is a list of career achievements by Rik Van Steenbergen, a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 1942 and 1966. Van Steenbergen is noted as one of the best sprinters of his generation and is a winner of a number of one-day races and stage races. Van Steenbergen won 25 Grand Tour stages during his career; four at the Tour de France, fifteen at the Giro d'Italia and six at the Vuelta a España. As a track cyclist, he won a record of 1,314 races, of which national and European titles in different disciplines and forty six-day races.

## Major results

### Road

**1942**


    1st National Road Championships - Interclubs road race
    1st Antwerp provincial championship
    1st in 3 stages of Omloop van Vlaanderen

**1943**


    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Interclubs road race
    1st Championship of Flanders
    1st Brussels, Charleroi, Eke, Erpe-Mere, Herk-de-Stad, Herstal, La Louvière, Liège-Coronmeuse, Mol, Niel, Oedelem, Waregem

**1944**


    1st Tour of Flanders
    1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
    1st Charleroi, Liège, Verviers

**1945**


    1st National Road Championships - Road race
    1st Dwars door België
    1st Brussels–Ingooigem
    1st Charleroi, Heusden, La Louvière, Mol, Neerpelt, Nieuwerkerken, Retie

**1946**


    3rd UCI Road World Championships Road race
    1st Tour of Flanders
    1st Tour des Quatre-Cantons (fr)
    1st Brussels, Genève, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lausanne, Marchienne-au-Pont, Neuchâtel, Retie, Saint-Gall, Schoenerwerd, Terkmerenbos, Turnhout, Waregem, Westerlo, Zürich

**1947**


    Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stage 4
    1st GP de Soignies
    1st Antwerp, Brussels, Grobbendonk, Tesenderlo, Turnhout, Zwijndrecht

**1948**


    1st Paris–Roubaix
    1st Omloop der drie Provinciën
    1st Critérium des As
    1st Charleroi, Doornik, Jumet, Kessel-Lo, Overpelt, Sint-Niklaas, Stabroek, Turnhout

**1949**


    1st UCI Road World Championships, Road race
    Tour de France
       1st Stages 12 & 21
    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    1st Tour of Limburg
    1st Barvaux, Berlaar, Brussels, Charleroi, Croisé-Laroche, Halluin, Houthalen, Mechelen, Pâturages

**1950**


    1st Paris–Brussels
    1st Grand Prix d'Europe
    1st Bordighera, Kortrijk, Mortsel, Oude God, Ronse, 's-Hertogenbosch, Saint-Amand les Eux

**1951**


    2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 1 & 15
       Held after Stages 1, 7, & 13–17
       1st Best foreign rider
    1st Overall Tour de l'Ouest
       1st Stage 2, 4 and 7
    1st Grand Prix d'Europe
    1st Niel–St Truiden
    1st Bâle, Mauberge, Recanati, Sain-Méen le Grand, Zonhoven
    2nd Critérium des As
    3rd Paris–Roubaix

**1952**


    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 6, 9 & 10
    Tour de France
       1st Stage 1
       Held after Stages 1–2
    1st Paris–Roubaix
    1st Overall Vuelta a la Argentina
       1st Stages 1, 8, 12 & 13
    Roma–Napoli–Roma
       1st Stage 4
    1st Critérium des As
    1st Boucles de l'Aulne
    1st Stage 4 Roma–Napoli–Roma
    1st Amiens, Charlieu, Jambes, Jemappes, Recanati, Roue d'Or

**1953**


    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 9
    1st Haumont, Lille, Pleurtuit, Troyes

**1954**


    1st National Road Championships - Road race
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 5, 16, 17 & 22
       1st sprints classification
    1st Milan–San Remo
    1st Alessandria, Arendonck, Bâle
    3rd Roma–Napoli–Roma

**1955**


    Tour de France
       1st Stage 16
    1st Critérium des As
    1st Stage 1b (TTT) Driedaagse van Antwerpen
    1st Omloop van Limburg
    1st Antwerp, Auch, Bâle, Brussels, Ede, Peer, Sint-Michiels
    3rd Tour of Flanders

**1956**


    1st UCI Road World Championships, Road race
    5th Overall Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 1, 7, 8, 11, 14 & 17
       1st Points classification
    Tour de l'Ouest
       1st Stage 8
    1st Omloop van Limburg
    1st Acht van Chaam
    1st Hanret, Lokeren, Turnhout, Virton, Zingem
    2nd Critérium des As
    3rd Paris-Brussels

**1957**


    1st UCI Road World Championships, Road race
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 1, 11, 17b, 20 & 21
       1st sprints classification
    Roma–Napoli–Roma
       1st Stages 1b and 5b
    1st Critérium des As
    1st Stage 3 Driedaagse van Antwerpen
    1st Antwerp, Chambéry, Dendermonde, Elisabethville, Hanret, Herenthals, Léopoldville, Londerzeel, Mellebeke, Namur, Ruisbroek, Turnhout, Wavre, Willebroek
    2nd Paris-Roubaix

**1958**


    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    Tour of the Netherlands
       1st Stage 4a
    1st Acht van Chaam
    1st Critérium des As
    1st Overall GP Bali
       1st Stage 1
    1st Aalst, Aarschot, Arlon, Brest, Chambéry, Charleroi, Châteauneuf, Hanret, Montignes-en-Goële, Saint-Pierre le Moutier, Sllanches, Woluwé

**1959**


    1st National Road Championships - Interclubs road race
    Tour de l'Ouest
       1st Stage 3
    1st Flèche Halloise
    1st Aalst, Amiens, Belsele, Brasschaat, Charleroi, Cremone, De Panne, Geneve, Halle, Hanret, Heldesheim, Leuze, Locarno, Leuven, Zandhoven
    2nd Milan-San Remo

**1960**


    1st Acht van Chaam
    1st Aalst, Dendermonde, Deurne, Eizer, Hanret, Londerzeel, Mol, Neuvic, Overijse, Vergt
    2nd Critérium des As

**1961**


    1st National Road Championships - Interclubs team time trial
    1st Elfstedenronde
    1st Bourcefranc, Bree, Daumesnil, Houthalen, Knokke, Riom, Rodez, Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges, Sint-Niklaas, Tongeren, Tothout, Woluwe
    2nd Tour d'Hesbaye
    2nd Critérium des As

**1962**


    1st National Road Championships - Interclubs team time trial
    1st Bourcefranc, De Panne, Dendermonde, Deurne, Lokeren, Made, Pleslin, Roim, Zwijdrecht

**1963**


    1st Arendonk, Herenthals, Lokeren

**1964**


    1st Bacaldo

### Track

**1942**


    1st National Track Championships juniors – Men's sprint
    1st Madison in Brussels
    1st Omnium in Antwerp, Brussels

**1943**


    1st Madison in Antwerp (x2), Brussels, Maldegem, Rocourt
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x5), Brussels, Ghent (x2), Maldegem
    1st Pursuit in Ghent (x5)
    1st Sprint in Antwerp, Brussels
    2nd National Track Championships – Omnium

**1944**


    National Track Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Men's individual pursuit
    1st Madison in Montaigu (x2), Rocourt, Sint-Niklaas, Zwartberg
    1st Omnium in Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels (x3), Paris, Sint-Niklaas (x3), Zwartberg
    1st Pursuit in Antwerp, Brussels
    1st Sprint in Zwartberg

**1945**


    1st Madison in Ghent, Zwartberg
    1st Omnium in Brussels (x5)
    2nd National Track Championships – Men's individual pursuit

**1946**


    1st Madison in Bruges, Ghent, Genève, Ostend, Paris, Zürich
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x2), Bruges (x2), Brussels (x7), Ghent (x3), Ostend, Paris (x2), Rocourt, Zürich
    1st Pursuit in Brussels (x2), Ghent (x3)
    1st Sprint in Maldegem
    1st Prix Hourlier-Comès (with Marcel Kint)

**1947**


    1st Madison in Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent (x2), Herne Hill, Luxembourg, Ostend, Zürich
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Bruges, Brussels (x3), Ghent (x3), Ostend, Paris
    1st Pursuit in Antwerp (x3), Brussels, Ghent (x3)
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Robert Naeye)

**1948**


    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Marcel Kint)
    1st Madison in Bruges, Brussels (x2), Ostend
    1st Omnium in Antwerp, Brussels (x2), Ghent, Genève, Heist-op-den-Berg, Marcinelle, Milan, Mons-Crotteux, Paris, Rocourt
    1st Pursuit in Antwerp, Paris
    1st Sprint in Bruges, Genève
    2nd Prix du Salon (with Marcel Kint)
    3rd National Track Championships – Men's individual pursuit
    3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Stan Ockers)

**1949**


    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Marcel Kint)
    1st Madison in Amsterdam, Antwerp (x2), Bruges, Ghent, Heist-op-den-Berg, Liederkerke, Lommel, Marcinelle, Niedercorn, Rocourt, Rouen, Turin, Zürich
    1st Derny in Brussels
    1st Omnium in Antwerp, Brussels (x2), Copenhagen, Ghent, Heist-op-den-Berg, Marcinelle (x2), Moorslede, Paris, Rocourt, Zürich
    1st Pursuit in Brussels
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Marcel Kint)
    3rd Six Days of Paris (with Marcel Kint)

**1950**


    1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Achiel Bruneel)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Brussels (x2), Ostend, Walem
    1st Derny in Heist-op-den-Berg, Rocourt, Ronse
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Brussels (x2), Ghent (x3), Heist-op-den-Berg, Luxembourg, Paris, Turin, Walem
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Robert Naeye)

**1951**


    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Stan Ockers)
    1st Madison in Alger, Antwerp, Brussels (x2), Montceau-les-Mines, Rocourt (x2), Zwartberg
    1st Omnium in Alger, Antwerp (x2), Brussels, Copenhagen, Liederkerke (x2), Ostend, Marcinelle, Rocourt, Zürich (x3), Zwartberg
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Achiel Bruneel)
    3rd Six Days of Paris (with Raymond Goussot)

**1952**


    1st Six Days of Paris (with Raymond Goussot)
    1st Madison in Alger, Buenos-Aires (x2), Cavaillon, Colmar, Lyon, Milan, Montceau-les-Mines, Montluçon, Rennes, Mans
    1st Derny in Paris
    1st Omnium in Copenhagen, Lyon Milan, Paris, Rocourt, Zwartberg
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Achiel Bruneel)
    3rd Six Days of Dortmund (with Gustav Killian)

**1953**


    1st Prix du Salon (with Stan Ockers)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Barcelona, Brussels (x2), Marcinelle, Paris (x2), Rocourt (x2), Toulon
    1st Derny in Antwerp, Brussels
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x2), Copenhagen, Milan, Paris, Port-de-Bouc, Rocourt, Saint-Étienne, Zwartberg
    1st Sprint in Modena
    2nd Six Days of Paris (with Achiel Bruneel)
    3rd Six Days of Brussels (with Stan Ockers)

**1954**


    1st Six Days of Ghent (with Stan Ockers)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Brussels (x2), Milan, Roanne, Rocourt, Sint-Amands, Turin, Zwartberg
    1st Derny in Lyon, Roanne
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x2), Brussels
    1st Pursuit in Milan, Roanne
    1st Sprint in Limoges, Saint-Étienne
    2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Stan Ockers)
    2nd Six Days of Brussels (with Stan Ockers)
    3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Stan Ockers)

**1955**


    National Track Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Madison
       2nd Men's sprint
    1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Stan Ockers)
    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Madison in Amsterdam, Bayonne, Brussels (x2), Copenhagen (x2), Dortmund, Frankfurt, Ghent, Ostend, Marcinelle, Rocourt (x2), Saint-Omer, Zwartberg
    1st Derny in Antwerp
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x4), Brussels (x5), Copenhagen, Grenoble, Le Havre, Padua, Rocourt
    1st Pursuit in Brussels
    1st Sprint in Antwerp
    3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Stan Ockers)
    3rd Six Days of Berlin (with Sydney Patterson)

**1956**


    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Madison in Brussels (x2), Copenhagen (x2), Dortmund, Frankfurt, Ghent, Lisbon, Ostend, Tortosa, Zürich
    1st Derny in Antwerp, Brussels, Milan, Rocourt
    1st Omnium in Brussels, Ghent, Le Havre, Ostend, Milan, Rocourt
    1st Pursuit in Zürich
    1st Sprint in Antwerp
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns and Arsène Rijckaert)

**1957**


    1st Six Days of Berlin (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Ghent (with Fred De Bruyne)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Copenhagen (x3), Ghent, Lurcy-Levis. Paris
    1st Derny in Antwerp (x4), Brussels (x2)
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Brussels (x5), Cologne, La Rochelle, Paris, Zürich
    1st Sprint in Élisabethville, Ghent, Roubaix
    2nd Six Days of Dortmund (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd European Track Championships – Omnium
    3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns and Willy Vannitsen)
    3rd Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)

**1958**


    1st European Track Championships – Madison (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns and Reginald Arnold)
    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Copenhagen (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Prix Hourlier-Comès (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Berlin, Blaton, Bordeaux, Copenhagen (x3), Fougères, Ghent, Paris, Zürich
    1st Derny in Antwerp (x2), Ghent (x2)
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Brussels (x5), Ghent (x2), Paris (x2)
    1st Pursuit in Antwerp
    1st Sprint in Antwerp
    2nd National Track Championships – Men's sprint
    2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Prix du Salon (with Emile Severeyns)

**1959**


    European Track Championships
       1st Madison (with Emile Severeyns)
       1st Omnium
    1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Klaus Bugdahl)
    1st Six Days of Ghent (with Fred De Bruyne)
    1st Six Days of Zürich (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Madison in Aarhus, Berlin, Copenhagen (x3), Zürich
    1st Derny in Antwerp (x5), Bâle, Brussels, Ghent (x2), Paris
    1st Omnium in Aarhus, Berlin, Brussels (x3), Copenhagen (x2), Ghent (x4), Paris (x2)
    1st Pursuit in Paris
    1st Sprint in Brussels (x2)
    2nd Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Copenhagen (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Frankfurt (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd Six Days of Cologne (with Heinz Vöpel)

**1960**


    European Track Championships
       1st Madison (with Emile Severeyns)
       1st Omnium
    1st Six Days of Aarhus (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Copenhagen (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Bâle, Brussels (x2), Copenhagen (x3), Ghent, Madrid, Zürich (x2)
    1st Derny in Antwerp, Brussels (x4), Cologne, Ghent, Zürich
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Alger, Brussels (x6), Dortmund, Ghent (x3), Paris, Rocourt
    1st Pursuit in Antwerp
    1st Sprint in Nantes
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Cologne (with Günther Ziegler)
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns and Leo Proost)

**1961**


    European Track Championships
       1st Madison (with Emile Severeyns)
       3rd Omnium
    National Track Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Madison (with Emile Severeyns)
       1st Derny
    1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Zürich (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Berlin (with Klaus Bugdahl)
    1st Madison in Bâle, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne (x3), Dortmund, Ghent (x2), Saintes, Saint-Quentin
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x4), Berlin (x2), Brussels (x2) Ghent
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Brussels (x7), Copenhagen, Ghent (x4), Paris, Rocourt
    1st Pursuit in Brussels
    1st Sprint in Antwerp, Brussels (2)
    2nd Six Days of Cologne (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Brussels (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns and Gilbert Maes)
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd Six Days of Aarhus (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd Six Days of Frankfurt (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd Six Days of Berlin (with Emile Severeyns)

**1962**


    European Track Championships
       2nd Omnium
       3rd Madison (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st National Track Championships – Derny
    1st Six Days of Brussels (with Palle Lykke)
    1st Six Days of Madrid (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Cologne (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Madison in Bâle, Berlin, Cologne, Milan
    1st Derny in Antwerp (x4), Berlin (x4)
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x2), Brussels (x4), Fresnes, Ghent (x3), Rocourt, Zürich
    1st Pursuit in Cologne
    1st Sprint in Antwerp, Brussels, Pont-Aven, Zürich
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Emile Severeyns and Palle Lykke)
    2nd Six Days of Münster (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Berlin-a (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Berlin-b (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Essen (with Emile Severeyns)

**1963**


    European Track Championships
       1st Madison (with Palle Lykke)
       2nd Derny
       3rd Omnium
    National Track Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Derny
    1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Palle Lykke) and Leo Proost)
    1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with Palle Lykke)
    1st Six Days of Madrid (with Joseph De Bakker)
    1st Madison in Milan, Zürich
    1st Derny in Bâle, Brussels
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x2), Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Netherlands, Rocourt, Valentigney, Vincennes
    1st Sprint in Antwerp (x2), Brussels
    2nd Six Days of Essen (with Peter Post)
    2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Rik Van Looy)
    2nd Six Days of Brussels (with Palle Lykke)
    3rd Six Days of Cologne (with Palle Lykke)
    3rd Six Days of Dortmund (with Palle Lykke)
    3rd Six Days of Milan (with Emile Severeyns)
    3rd Six Days of Zürich (with Rik Van Looy))

**1964**


    National Track Championships
       1st Derny
    European Track Championships
       2nd Derny
    1st Six Days of Milan (with Leandro Faggin)
    1st Six Days of Madrid (with Federico Bahamontes)
    1st Madison in Antwerp (x2), Brussels (x2), Cologne, Dortmund, Milan (x3), Ostend, Zürich
    1st Derny in Antwerp, Berlin, Cologne (x2)
    1st Omnium in Antwerp (x3), Brussels (x2), Dortmund, Madrid, Ostend, Paris, Rocourt
    1st Sprint in Antwerp (x2)
    2nd Six Days of Brussels (with Palle Lykke)
    2nd Six Days of Cologne (with Palle Lykke)
    2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Emile Severeyns)
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Palle Lykke) and Leo Proost)
    3rd Six Days of Essen (with Palle Lykke)

**1965**


    1st Six Days of Bremen (with Leandro Faggin)
    1st Six Days of Milan (with Gianni Motta)
    1st Six Days of Essen (with Peter Post)
    1st Six Days of Toronto (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Quebec (with Emile Severeyns)
    1st Six Days of Madrid (with Romain De Loof)
    1st Madison in Antwerp, Luçon, Niederborn, Saint-Quentin, Netherlands GP, Ostend
    1st Derny in Antwerp, Netherlands GP
    1st Omnium in Brussels (x2), Colmar, Ghent, Roubaix
    1st Sprint in Antwerp, Ghent (x2)
    European Track Championships
       2nd Madison (with Palle Lykke)
    2nd Six Days of Antwerp (with Palle Lykke) and Freddy Eugen)
    2nd Six Days of Brussels (with Palle Lykke)
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Severeyns)

**1966**


    1st Derny in Antwerp
    1st Omnium in Antwerp
    European Track Championships
       2nd Madison (with Palle Lykke)
       2nd Omnium
    National Track Championships
       2nd Omnium
    2nd Six Days of Cologne (with Peter Post)

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