title: Daniel Willems
text: # Daniel Willems
  
  Daniel Willems (16 August 1956 – 2 September 2016) was a Belgian road bicycle racer. Health problems ended his career in 1986. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
  
  ## Major results
  
  ### 1976
  
      5th Overall Ruban Granitier Breton
  
  ### 1977
  
      1st Road race, National Amateur Road Championships
      1st Overall Ruban Granitier Breton
         1st Stages 1a & 4a (ITT)
      4th Flèche Ardennaise
      6th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
  
  ### 1978
  
      1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
      1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
      1st Circuit du Hainaut
      2nd Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
      3rd Kattekoers
      7th Overall Ronde van Nederland
  
  ### 1979
  
      1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
         1st Stage 4b
      1st Overall Tour of Belgium
         1st Stage 4b
      1st Scheldeprijs
      1st Brabantse Pijl
      1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm
      2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
      2nd Critérium des As
      3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
      3rd Tour of Flanders
      3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
      4th Paris–Tours
      4th Circuit des Frontières
      5th Overall Paris–Nice
      5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
      6th Gent–Wevelgem
      6th Züri-Metzgete
      8th Milan–San Remo
      9th Circuit du Hainaut
  
  ### 1980
  
      1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
         1st Stages 3 & 5a
      1st Paris–Tours
      1st Ronde van Limburg
      1st Grand Prix Le Télégramme
      2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
         1st Stage 5
      2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
      4th Rund um den Henninger-Turm
      5th Overall Tour de Suisse
         1st Points classification
         1st Combination classification
         1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (ITT)
      5th Züri-Metzgete
      7th Paris–Roubaix
      7th Amstel Gold Race
      8th Circuit du Hainaut
      9th Overall Tour de Romandie
      9th Tour du Haut Var
  
  ### 1981
  
      1st La Flèche Wallonne
      1st Critérium des As
      1st Heistse Pijl
      Tour de France
         1st Stages 11 & 19
      1st Stage 3 GP du Midi-Libre
      1st Stage 1a Tour of Belgium
      3rd Züri-Metzgete
      3rd Rund um den Henninger-Turm
      4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
      5th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
         1st Stages 1, 4 & 5
      6th Overall Tour de l'Aude
         1st Stage 3
      6th Trofeo Laigueglia
      10th Road race, National Road Championships
      10th Tour of Flanders
  
  ### 1982
  
      1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
      Tour Midi-Pyrénées
         1st Stages 1a & 2
      2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
         1st Stage 3
      2nd Le Samyn
      3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
      6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
      7th Overall Tour de France
         1st Stages 3 & 20
      7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
         1st Stage 1
      7th Brabantse Pijl
      8th Road race, National Road Championships
      8th Overall Tour de l'Aude
  
  ### 1983
  
      2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
  
  ### Grand Tour general classification results timeline
  
  | Grand Tour | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Vuelta a España | — | — | DNF | — |
  | Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 71 |
  | Tour de France | DNF | 7 | DNF | — |
  
  Legend :
  
  | — | Did not compete |
  | - | - |
  | DNF | Did not finish |
  