Sylvère Maes (pronounced [sil.vɛːʁ maːs]; 27 August 1909 – 5 December 1966) was a Belgian cyclist, who is most famous for winning the Tour de France in...

instead of helping his team leader Sylvère Maes. Vissers won the stage, but Vietto was able to stay with Maes. Maes climbed to the second place in the...

cyclist Sylvère Maes. In the early stages, he battled with French Maurice Archambaud, until Archambaud lost many minutes on the eighth stage. Maes was then...

Maes or Maës is a Dutch and Spanish (Maes/e) patronymic surname. It is the third most common surname in Belgium (25,683 people). Notable people with the...

all occupied by Belgian cyclists; Romain Maes, Vervaecke and Sylvère Maes. In the sixteenth stage Romain Maes ran into trouble for the first time in 1935...

from the first day all the way to Paris. René Pottier, Roger Lapébie, Sylvère Maes, Fausto Coppi and Bradley Wiggins all won the Tour de France the last...

abandoned the race. Maes rode on the track for several years with his namesake, Sylvère Maes, to whom he wasn't related. Romain Maes stopped racing in 1944...

+ 27′ 31″ 3 1935  Belgium Romain Maes Belgium 4,338 km (2,696 mi) 141h 23′ 00″ + 17′ 52″ 3 1936  Belgium Sylvère Maes Belgium 4,442 km (2,760 mi) 142h...

twelve times, by eight different cyclists: 1938: Gino Bartali 1939: Sylvère Maes 1948: Gino Bartali 1949: Fausto Coppi 1952: Fausto Coppi 1959: Federico...

d'Iseran from Bonneval-sur-Arc to Bourg-Saint-Maurice and was won by Sylvere Maes by four minutes. The pass has been used five times on the Tour de France...