title: Désiré Keteleer
text: # Désiré Keteleer
  
  Désiré "Dis" Keteleer (13 June 1920 – 17 September 1970) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Keteleer was born in Anderlecht and was professional from 1942 until 1961, winning the inaugural Tour of Romandie in 1947 and La Flèche Wallonne in 1946. He rode in the 1949 Tour de France, winning stage 15. Keteleer died in Rebecq-Rognon.
  
  ## Major results
  
  ### 1943
  
      3rd La Flèche Wallonne
  
  ### 1945
  
      3rd Overall Tour of Belgium
         1st Stages 3 & 5
      3rd Nokere Koerse
      10th Omloop Het Volk
  
  ### 1946
  
      1st Brussels–Spa
      1st La Flèche Wallonne
      7th Overall Tour of Belgium
         1st Stage 5
      8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
  
  ### 1947
  
      1st Elfstedenronde
      1st Kampenhout–Charleroi–Kampenhout
      1st Scheldt–Dender–Lys
      1st Overall Tour de Romandie
         1st Stages 1B & 2
      1st Stages 6 & 7 Tour de Suisse
  
  ### 1948
  
      1st Circuit des régions frontalières
      1st Roubaix–Huy
      1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia
  
  ### 1949
  
      1st Stage 15 Tour de France
      2nd Overall Tour of the Netherlands
      8th Omloop Het Volk
  
  ### 1950
  
      1st Stages 5, 8, 13 & 17 Deutschland Tour
      1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie
      1st Stage 3 Volta a Catalunya
      3rd Züri-Metzgete
  
  ### 1952
  
      1st Stage 4 Giro d'Italia
      1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse
      5th Overall Paris–Nice
      6th 1952 Paris–Roubaix
      7th Tour of Flanders
      9th La Flèche Wallonne
  
  ### 1953
  
      2nd Tour of Flanders
      5th Gent–Wevelgem
      8th 1953 Paris–Roubaix
  
  ### 1955
  
      2nd Gent–Wevelgem
      3rd Ronde van Limburg
  
  ### 1956
  
      3rd Gent–Wevelgem
      6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
  
  ### 1957
  
      2nd Overall Paris–Nice
         1st Stage 1
      8th Paris–Bruxelles
      10th Tour of Flanders
  
  ### 1958
  
      2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna
      3rd Grand Prix d'Antibes
      5th Overall Tour de Suisse
         1st Stage 5
      10th Milan–San Remo
  