Marcel Kint (20 September 1914 23 March 2002) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won 31 races between 1935 and 1951. His finest year was 1938 when he won the World Cycling Championship, three stages of the Tour de France and the season-long competition equivalent to today's UCI ProTour. He specialized in one-day classic cycle races and won Paris–Roubaix, Gent–Wevelgem, Paris–Brussels. He was the only three-time consecutive winner of La Flèche Wallonne until 2016 when Alejandro Valverde won his third consecutive race and fourth overall.

Kints honours would have been much bigger but at his sporting peak, his career was halted for a few years by World War II.

The outbreak of the war would make Marcel Kint the longest reigning world champion in the history of cycling. Kint would hold the rainbow jersey until 1946: eight years, and it could have been nine. In the final of the 1946 world championship in Zurich, Kint and Swiss rider Hans Knecht were riding to the finish, when Kint was stopped by fanatical home supporters, causing him to finish second.

Major results

Road

1. 1933

2. 1st Junior National Road Race Championships

3. 1934

4. 1st stage 1 Tour of Belgium independents

5. 1935

6. 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

7. 1st Stage 7 Tour de Luxembourg

8. 1st Bruxelles-Liège

9. 1st Ronde van Vlaanderen independents

10. 1st Overall Tour of Belgium independents

11. Grote Prijs van Zwevegem

12. 1st Jemeppe-Marche-Jemeppe

13. 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

14. 1936

15. 1st Antwerpen–Gent–Antwerpen

16. 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium

17. 4th Overall Paris–Nice

18. 9th Overall Tour de France

    1. 1st Stage 19

    1937

19. 1st Gent–Ieper

20. 2nd La Flèche Wallonne

21. 2nd Paris–Lille

22. 6th Paris–Brussels

23. 10th Overall Paris–Nice

24. 1938

25. 1st Road race, World Road Championships

26. 1st Paris–Brussels

27. 1st GP d'Espéraza

28. 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège

29. 3rd Tour of Flanders

30. 3rd National Road Race Championships

31. 7th Paris–Tours

32. 9th Overall Tour de France

    1. 1st Stages 15, 16 & 18

    1939

33. 1st Stages 8A & 18B Tour de France

34. 1st National Road Race Championships

35. 1st Antwerpen–Gent–Antwerpen

36. 1st Ransart-Beaumont-Ransart

37. 1st GP Stad Zottegem

38. 2nd Paris–Roubaix

39. 5th Paris–Brussels

40. 5th Bordeaux–Paris

41. 1939

42. 1st Circuit de Belgique

43. 1942

44. 1st Gullegem Koerse

45. 1943

46. 1st La Flèche Wallonne

47. 1st Paris–Roubaix

48. 1st Ronde van Limburg

49. 1st Brussels-Paris

50. 1st Circuit de Belgique

51. 5th Tour of Flanders

52. 8th Paris–Tours

53. 1944

54. 1st La Flèche Wallonne

55. 1st Grand Prix Jules Lowie

56. 1st Grand Prix du Printemps

57. 9th Tour of Flanders

58. 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé

59. 1945

60. 1st La Flèche Wallonne

61. 1st Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen Ichtegem

62. 1st Dwars door West-Vlaanderen

63. 2nd Textielprijs Vichte

64. 1946

65. 1st National Road Race Championships Interclubs

66. 2nd Road race, World Road Championships

67. 2nd GP du Locle

68. 9th Tour of Flanders

69. 10th Paris–Roubaix

70. 1947

71. 1st National Road Race Championships Interclubs

72. 1949

73. 1st Gent–Wevelgem

74. 2nd Gullegem Koerse

75. 2nd Textielprijs Vichte

76. 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

77. 1950

78. 5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

79. 8th Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma

80. 10th Paris–Roubaix

81. 1951

82. 1st Elfstedenronde

83. 7th La Flèche Wallonne

84. 9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Track

1. 1946

2. 1st Prix Hourlier-Comès (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

3. 1947

4. 1st Six Hours of Zürich (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

5. 1948

6. 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

7. 1st Trophée des Routiers (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

8. 1949

9. 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

10. 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

11. 3rd Six Days of Paris (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

References

External links

• Official Tour de France results for Marcel Kint