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Benoni Beheyt
	Benoni Beheyt in 1964
Personal information
Full name	Benoni Beheyt
Born	27 September 1940 (age 84); Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1964) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1963)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Belgium
World Championships

Benoni Beheyt (born 27 September 1940) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who raced from 1962 to 1968.^[1] Beheyt won 22 races and is most famous for winning the 1963 World Cycling Championships Road Race and stage win of the 1964 Tour de France.^[2] He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Major results

1962 – Wiel's-Groene Leeuw

1st Brussel–Ingooigem

2nd Overall Tour du Nord

1st stage 1

1st stage 2 Tour de Picardie

1st Melle

2nd Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen

3rd Paris–Tours

3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs

1963 – Wiel's-Groene Leeuw

1st

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st Gent–Wevelgem

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies

1st Overall Tour de Wallonie

1st Antwerpen - Ougrée

1st St-Andries

1st Bruxelles-Alsemberg

1st Gavere

2nd Omloop van Midden-Vlaanderen

2nd La Roue d'Or (with Noël Foré)

3rd Grand Prix de Denain

3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs

3rd Boulogne

1964 – Wiel's-Groene Leeuw

49th Overall Tour de France

1st Stage 22a (Orléans – Versailles, 118.5 km)

1st Overall Tour of Belgium

Circuit du Provençal

1st stage 1a and 2b

1st La Ronde d'Aix-en-Provence

1st Bourcefranc

1st Callac

1st Ronde van Oost-Vlaanderen

2nd Tour of Flanders

2nd Paris–Roubaix

2nd GP du Tournaisis

2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs

3rd Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten

3rd Paris-Brussels

1965 – Wiel's-Groene Leeuw

1st Omloop van Midden-Vlaanderen

1st Plumeliau

1st Trelissac

2nd Brussels-Ingooigem

3rd Dwars door West-Vlaanderen

1966 – Wiel's-Groene Leeuw

1967 – Tibetan-Pullover Centrale

1968 – Pullover Centrale-Motte

Tour de France record

1963: 49th overall
1964: 49th overall and 1 stage win
1965: 47th overall

References

^ "Palmarès de Benoni Beheyt (Bel)". Mémoire du Cyclisme.
^ "Benoni Beheyt". Procyclingstats. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Benoni Beheyt". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.