Ludo Loos

Ludo Loos (13 January 1955 – 1 March 2019) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

Ludo Loos

Personal information
Full name	Ludo Loos
Born	(1955-01-13)13 January 1955 Essen, Belgium
Died	1 March 2019(2019-03-01) (aged 64) Brasschaat, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
1 stage 1980 Tour de France

Career

During the 1980 Tour de France Loos was able to escape in a solo breakaway during Stage 18, which was a major mountain stage. He was the first rider over all five climbs and won the stage finishing 5:19 ahead of the group of favorites which included his teammate Lucien Van Impe, Robert Alban, Joaquim Agostinho and eventual yellow jersey winner Joop Zoetemelk. Loos would finish eighteenth in that year's general classification and second in the mountains classification.

In the 1985 Vuelta a España, Loos collided with a dog in O Portádego (Culleredo, province of A Coruña), and broke a neck vertebra. This effectively ended his career as cyclist.

On 1 March 2019, Loos died following a long illness.^[1]

Major results

1980

Tour de France:

Winner stage 18