List of career achievements by Eddy Merckx
Eddy Merckx is widely considered to be the greatest bicycle racer in history.[1] His eleven Grand Tour victories are the most ever, and he also won a record of 28 classic cycle races, in addition to a prolific career as an amateur and on the track.[2]
Career achievements[edit]
Major results[edit]
Limited list, only mentioning 1st places. Source:[3][4][5]
Road[edit]
- 1961 (Debutant)
- 1st Petit-Enghien
- 1962
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships - 1st
Overall Liège-La Gleize - 1963 (Amateur)
- 1st Rund um Sebnitz
- 1st Overall Tour of Limburg amateur race
- 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant (TTT)
- 1964
- 1st
Road race, UCI Amateur Road Championships - 1st Brussels-Opwijk
- 1st GP Affligem
- 1965 (Solo-Supéria)
- 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde
- 1st Omloop van het Houtland (Torhout)
- 1st Trofee Luc Van Biesen
- 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant (TTT)
- 1st GP Itterbeek
- 1st Wezembeek-Oppem
- 1st Kessel-Lo
- 1st Critérium du Renaix
- 1st Nederbrakel
- 1st Critérium de Visé
- 1st Critérium de St. Jansteen
- 1966 (Team Peugeot–BP)
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Ferdinand Bracke)
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stage 1b
- 1st Circuit des Frontières
- 1st
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen - 1st Geraardsbergen-Viane
- 1st Boucles de l'Aulne
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 1st Overall Tour of Morbihan
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
- 1st Wattrelos–Meulebeke
- 1st GP Pino Cerami
- 1st Helchteren
- 1st Rousiès
- 1st Denderleeuw
- 1st Rumes
- 1st GP Le Télégramme à Châteaulin
- 1st Criterium de Puteaux
- 1967 (Team Peugeot–BP)
- 1st Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 12 & 14
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Ferdinand Bracke)
- 1st Critérium des As
- 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 1st Stage 3 Paris–Luxembourg
- 1st Omloop der Zennevallei
- 1st Tour du Condroz
- Paris–Nice
- 1st Stages 2 & 6
- Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stages 6 & 7
- 1st Critérium de Camors
- 1st GP Salvarani
- 1st GP du Tournaisis
- 1st Nandrin
- 1st Simpelveld
- 1st Enter
- 1st Liedekerkse Pijl
- 1st La Clayette
- 1st Critérium de La Panne
- 1st Critérium de St. Lenaarts
- 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant
- 1st Critérium de Liedekerke
- 1st Critérium d'Armentières
- 1st Putte-Kapellen
- 1968 (Team Faema)
- 1st
Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stages 1, 2, 8, & 12
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stages 1 & 5b
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Overall À travers Lausanne
- 1st Stages 1a & 2a
- 1st
Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stages 1 & 6
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Luxembourg
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Gran Premio di Lugano
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice
- 1st Rombano Lombardo
- 1st Salsiomaggiore
- 1st La Clayette
- 1st Bornem
- 1st Woluwé-St Lambert
- 1st La Panne
- 1st Ohain
- 1st Alsemberg
- 1st GP Malderen
- 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant
- 1st Roue d'Or
- 1st Trofeo Dicen
- 1969 (Team Faema)
- 1st
Overall Tour de France
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st
Combination classification - 1st
Combativity award - 1st Stages 1b (TTT), 6, 8a (ITT), 11, 15 (ITT), 17 & 22b (ITT)
- 1st
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Levante
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Stages 3, 4 & 5
- 1st Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Stages 2, 3b & 7b
- 1st Wattrelos–Meulebeke
- 1st Overall Paris–Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Boucles de l'Aulne
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Mallorca
- 1st Ronde du Carnaval d'Aix-en-Provence
- 1st La Roche-sur-Yon (with R. Lelangue & F. Mintjens)
- 1st La Trimouille
- 1st Ottignies
- 1st Critérium d'Alost
- 1st Critérium de Woluwé-St Lambert
- 1st Vincennes omnium
- 1st Guerlesquin Tro-Ker
- 1st Remiremont
- 1st Chateau-Chinon
- 1st Londerzeel Critérium
- 1st Saussignac
- 1st Moorslede Critérium
- 1st Auvelais Critérium
- 1st Schaerbeek
- 1st Alès
- 1st Circuit de l'Aulne a Châteaulin
- 1st Scorze
- 1st G. P. de Wallonie a Charleroi individuelle
- 1st Coupe du Monde intermarques
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 1970 (Team Faema–Faemino)
- 1st Overall Tour de France
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Combination classification
- 1st Combativity award
- 1st Prologue (ITT) & Stages 3 (TTT), 7a, 10, 11a (ITT), 12, 14, 20b (ITT) & 23 (ITT)
- 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Combination classification
- 1st Stages 2, 7 & 9
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- Winner Combativity award
- 1st Stages 3, 7b & 8b
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Stages 1b & 3b
- 1st
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st GP Union Dortmund
- 1st Stage 1 Puy-de-Dôme
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st Critérium des As
- 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 1st Overall À travers Lausanne
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Sanary
- 1st Col San Martino
- 1st Lorient
- 1st Villafranca
- 1st Caen
- 1st Critérium de Renxaix
- Critérium de Woluwé-St Lambert
- 1st Overall
- 1st Time Trial
- 1st Ronde de Seignelay
- 1st Vailly-sur-Sauldre
- 1st Saint-Cyprien Critérium
- 1st Bilzen Critérium
- 1st St. Niklaas Critérium
- 1st Baussières
- 1st Varilhes
- 1st Castelfranco
- 1st Chateaugiron
- 1st Bastia
- 1st Eeklo cyclo-cross (with Roger De Vlaeminck)
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stages 2 & 5
- 1971 (Team Molteni)
- 1st Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Overall Tour de France
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Combination classification
- 1st Stages 2, 13 (ITT), 17 & 20 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Omloop Het Volk
- 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stages 1, 3 & 7
- 1st Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT), 2 & 4
- 1st
- 1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm
- 1st
Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 2 & 7
- 1st Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 1st Stage 3 Cronostafetta
- 1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st LuK Challenge Chrono (with Herman Vanspringel)
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 1st Badia a Settimo
- 1st Ghedi
- 1st Trofeo Montorsi
- 1st Cordenons
- 1972 (Team Molteni)
- 1st Overall Tour de France
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Combination classification
- 1st Prologue, Stages 5b (ITT), 8, 13, 14a & 20a (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
- Hour record
– 49.431 km - 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- 1st Grand Prix de Momignies
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- 1st GP Union Dortmund
- 1st Giro del Piemonte
- 1st Giro del Mendrisio
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 1st Overall À travers Lausanne
- 1st Stages 1a & 2a
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi, with Roger Swerts
- 1st Challenge Gan
- 1st Castelfranco
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 6
- 1973 (Team Molteni)
- 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Combination classification
- 1st Prologue, Stages 1, 4, 8, 10 & 18
- 1st
- 1st Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Omloop Het Volk
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st Trofeo Laigueglia
- 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Prologue Paris–Nice
- 1st Ronde van Oost-Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 1 Cronostafetta
- 1st Overall Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st Overall À travers Lausanne
- 1st Stages 1a & 2a
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1st Overall Course de côte de Montecampione
- 1st Challenge Gan
- 1st Monsummano
- 1st Pavullo
- 1st Nandrin
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 1974 (Team Molteni)
- 1st Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Overall Tour de France
- 1st Combination classification
- 1st Combativity award
- 1st Prologue, Stages 7, 9, 10, 15, 19b (ITT), 21a & 22
- 1st
- 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 12 (ITT) & 21
- 1st Trofeo Laigueglia
- 1st Prologue & Stage 1 Paris–Nice
- 1st Grand Prix de Momignies
- 1st Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 11 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st Critérium des As
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st GP Malderen
- 1st Challenge Gan
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1975 (Team Molteni)
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Classica Sarda
- 1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Stage 4
- Tour de Romandie
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 6
- 1st
- 1st Boucles de l'Aulne
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st ITT & TTT with Lucien Van Impe
- 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International
- 1st Sassari-Cagliari
- 1st Stuttgart-Böblingen
- 2nd Overall Tour de France
- 1st Combativity award
- 1st Stages 6 (ITT) & 9b (ITT)
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Prologue & Stage 5
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 8
- 1976 (Team Molteni)
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Prologue & Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st Omloop Leiedal
- 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour de Romandie
- 1st Omloop van de Westkust-De Panne
- 1st Ronde van West-Vlaanderen
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1977 (Team Fiat)
- 1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice
- 1st Tour du Condroz
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse
- 6th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 9 (TTT)
Grand Tour general classification and World Championships results[edit]
| 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour de France | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | DNE | 1 | 2 | DNE | 6 |
| Stages won | — | — | — | — | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | — | 8 | 2 | — | 0 |
| Mountains classification | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | — | 11 |
| Points classification | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | — | 5 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNE | DNE | 9 | 1 | DSQ | 1 | DNE | 1 | 1 | 1 | DNE | 8 | DNE |
| Stages won | — | — | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | — | 4 | 6 | 2 | — | 0 | — |
| Mountains classification | — | — | 3 | 1 | DSQ | 4 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 7 | — |
| Points classification | — | — | 2 | 1 | DSQ | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | 4 | — | 2 | — |
| Vuelta a España | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | 1 | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
| Stages won | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| Mountains classification | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Points classification | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| World Championship | 29 | 12 | 1 | 8 | DNF | 29 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 33 |
| 1 | Winner |
| 2–3 | Top three-finish |
| 4–10 | Top ten-finish |
| 11– | Other finish |
| DNE | Did not enter |
| DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
| DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
| HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not ranked in this classification |
Monuments results timeline[edit]
| Monument | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | 1 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 98 |
| Tour of Flanders | DNF | 3 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 76 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | DNF |
| Paris–Roubaix | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | 8 | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Giro di Lombardia | 2 | 7 | 3 | — | 4 | 1 | 1 | DSQ | 2 | 6 | — | — |
Major stage race general classification results timeline[edit]
| Race | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
— | 28 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 20 |
 Paris–Nice
|
4 | 10 | DNF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | DNF |
 Tirreno–Adriatico
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
 Volta a Catalunya
|
— | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour of the Basque Country
|
X | X | X | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour of Belgium
|
11 | — | DNF | — | 1 | 1 | — | ? | — | — | 26 | — |
| Grand Prix du Midi Libre
|
11 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 7 |
 Tour de Romandie
|
— | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | 3 | 7 |
 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
|
— | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 10 | — | 8 |
| Tour de Suisse
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 12 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Track[edit]
- 1963
- 1st Madison, National Amateur Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1964
- 1st Madison, National Amateur Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1965
- 1st Madison, National Amateur Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Rocourt Madison
- 1966
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Roubaix Omnium
- 1st Brussels Omnium (with Rik Van Looy and Edward Sels)
- 1st Antwerpen individual
- 1967
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Edward Sels & Rik Van Looy)
- 1st Aulnay-sous-Blois omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke)
- 1st Milan Omnium
- 1st Ostende Madison (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Rocourt Madison (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Daniel Van Ryckeghem)
- 1st Madrid Madison (with Jan Janssen)
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Rocourt Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Ostende Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Brussels Omnium (24 October) (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Gent Omnium (1 November) (with Walter Godefroot)
- 1st Gent Omnium (7 November) (with Rik Van Steenbergen, Patrick Sercu, & Noël Van Clooster)
- 1st Brussels Omnium (15 November) (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 1st Lorient Omnium (Rudi Altig, Tom Simpson, & Howling)
- 1st Roubaix Omnium
- 1st Ostende Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke)
- 1968
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Charleroi (with Ferdinand Bracke)
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Rik Van Looy)
- 1st Milan Omnium (with Vittorio Adorni)
- 1st Rocourt Omnium
- 1st Ostende Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Ostende Omnium
- 1st Rocourt Omnium
- 1st Milan Omnium (with Rudi Altig, Lucien Aimar, & Jean Jourdan)
- 1st Rome Omnium (with Vittorio Adorni
- 1st Milan Pursuit
- 1st Milan Omnium (with Rudi Altig)
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Guido Reybrouck)
- 1969
- 1st
Madison, European Championships (with Patrick Sercu) - 1st Gent Omnium (with Roger De Vlaeminck & Walter Godefroot)
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium
- 1st Rome Omnium
- 1st Ostende Omnium
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Jacques Anquetil, Rudi Altig & Harm Ottenbros)
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Julien Stevens)
- 1st Gand Omnium (with Roger De Vlaeminck)
- 1st Charleroi Omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke)
- 1970
- 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Julien Stevens)
- 1st Charleroi Omnium
- 1st Charleroi Madison (with Julien Stevens)
- 1st Grenoble Omnium
- 1st Milan Omnium (with Jean-Pierre Monseré)
- 1971
- 1st Six Days of Milan (with Julien Stevens)
- 1st Vincennes Omnium
- 1972
- 1st Gent Omnium (with Walter Godefroot and Patrick Sercu)
- 1973
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Oostende Omnium
- 1st Gent Omnium
- 1974
- 1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Genève Omnium
- 1st Luxembourg Omnium
- 1st Rotterdam Omnium
- 1st Madrid Omnium
- 1975
- 1st Omnium, European Championships
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Genève Omnium
- 1st Zürich Omnium
- 1st Antwerp Omnium
- 1st Valkenburg Omnium
- 1976
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Marseille Omnium
- 1st Antwerp Omnium (with Rik Van Linden)
- 1st Gent Omnium
- 1st Vincennes Omnium
- 1977
- 1st Madison, European Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Munich (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Zürich (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Maastricht (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Berlin (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1978
- 1st Zürich Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
Win rate[edit]
In his best year, Merckx won almost every other race he rode. Merckx won the equivalent of a race a week for six years.[6] This table shows his strike rate of wins as a percentage of races undertaken.[5]
| Year | Races | Won | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 14 | 1 | 7,7% |
| 1962 | 55 | 23 | 41,8% |
| 1963 | 78 | 28 | 35,9% |
| 1964 | 74 | 24 | 32,4% |
| 1965 | 74 | 13 | 17,6% |
| 1966 | 95 | 20 | 21,1% |
| 1967 | 113 | 26 | 23,0% |
| 1968 | 129 | 32 | 24,8% |
| 1969 | 129 | 43 | 33,3% |
| 1970 | 138 | 52 | 37,7% |
| 1971 | 120 | 54 | 45,0% |
| 1972 | 127 | 50 | 39,4% |
| 1973 | 136 | 51 | 37,5% |
| 1974 | 140 | 38 | 27,1% |
| 1975 | 151 | 38 | 25,2% |
| 1976 | 111 | 15 | 13,5% |
| 1977 | 119 | 17 | 14,3% |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 | 0,0% |
Overall: 1808 races entered, 525 wins for a win rate of 29%.[7]
1961–1964: Amateur results. 5 of the 74 races in 1965 were as amateur, of which 4 were won.
Records[edit]
Road[edit]
See Eddy Merckx records overview
Track[edit]
- 17 Six-day races, of which 15 with Patrick Sercu.
- 3 European championships (Omnium: 1975 Madison: 1969, 1977)
- 8 Belgian Madison championships with Patrick Sercu: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1975 & 1976
World record[edit]
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| Discipline | Record | Date | Event | Velodrome | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour record | 49.431 km | 25 October 1972 | — | Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome, Mexico City | [8] |
References[edit]
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