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C&A (cycling team)

C&A
Team information
RegisteredBelgium
Founded1978 (1978)
Disbanded1978
Discipline(s)Road
BicyclesDe Rosa
Key personnel
General managerRudi Altig
Jos Huysmans
Team name history
1978
C&A
C&A (cycling team) jersey
C&A (cycling team) jersey
Jersey

C&A was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed in 1978. The team was formed after the Fiat France team ended the previous season.[1] It was sponsored by Dutch clothing retailer C&A, who only came into the sport to sponsor a team that had Eddy Merckx on its roster. Merckx, who had ridden with Fiat France, was at the end of his career and he quit the team in March 1978.[2]

Team roster

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The following is a list of riders on the C&A squad during the 1978 season, with age given for 1 January 1978.[1]

Rider Date of birth
 Joseph Bruyère (BEL) (1948-10-05)5 October 1948 (aged 29)
 Étienne De Beule (BEL) (1953-11-20)20 November 1953 (aged 24)
 Jos Deschoenmaecker (BEL) (1947-10-02)2 October 1947 (aged 30)
 René Dillen (BEL) (1951-06-18)18 June 1951 (aged 26)
 Edward Janssens (BEL) (1946-01-18)18 January 1946 (aged 31)
 Marcel Laurens (BEL) (1952-06-21)21 June 1952 (aged 25)
 Ludo Loos (BEL) (1955-01-13)13 January 1955 (aged 22)
 René Martens (BEL) (1955-05-27)27 May 1955 (aged 22)
 Martin Jacques (BEL) (1952-04-16)16 April 1952 (aged 25)
Rider Date of birth
 Eddy Merckx (BEL) (1945-06-17)17 June 1945 (aged 32)
 Robert Mintkiewicz (FRA) (1947-10-14)14 October 1947 (aged 30)
 Walter Planckaert (BEL) (1948-04-08)8 April 1948 (aged 29)
 Willy Planckaert (BEL) (1944-04-05)5 April 1944 (aged 33)
 Eddy Schepers (BEL) (1955-12-12)12 December 1955 (aged 22)
 Guido Van Calster (BEL) (1956-02-06)6 February 1956 (aged 21)
 Etienne Van der Helst (BEL) (1953-07-07)7 July 1953 (aged 24)
 Frank Van Impe (BEL) (1955-06-01)1 June 1955 (aged 22)
 Lucien Van Impe (BEL) (1946-10-20)20 October 1946 (aged 31)

References

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  1. ^ a b "C & A (1978)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  2. ^ Fotheringham, William (2012). Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. Yellow Jersey Press. pp. 281–183. ISBN 978-0-224-09195-4.


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