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Frans De Mulder
	De Mulder during the 1960 Vuelta a España
Personal information
Full name	Frans De Mulder
Born	17 December 1937; Kruishoutem, Belgium
Died	5 March 2001 (aged 63); Deinze, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
	Grand Tours Vuelta a España General classification (1960) 4 individual stages (1960) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1960) Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (1961)

Frans De Mulder (17 December 1937 in Kruishoutem – 5 March 2001 in Deinze) was a professional road racing cyclist from Belgium between 1958 and 1963.^[1]

De Mulder is most famous for winning the overall title and four stages the 1960 Vuelta a España. He bested fellow countryman Armand Desmet and Spaniard Miguel Pacheco across 3566 km in 17 stages.^[2]

Major results

Source:^[3]

1959

1st Stage 5a Tour de l'Ouest

3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège

4th Milan–San Remo

4th Brussels–Ingooigem

7th Paris–Roubaix

7th La Flèche Wallonne

1960

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st

Overall Vuelta a España

1st Stages 4, 7, 16 & 17a

2nd Gent–Wevelgem

3rd Omloop van het Houtland

5th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke

6th Tour of Flanders

6th Dwars door België

7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4

7th Milan–San Remo

7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

10th Brussels–Ingooigem

1961

1st

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1962

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st

Points classification

1st Stage 7

3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg

3rd Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke

4th Road race, National Road Championships

5th Omloop Het Volk

7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

9th De Kustpijl

1963

1st Nokere Koerse

3rd Overall Tour of Belgium

1st Stage 3b (ITT)

5th De Kustpijl

8th GP Stad Zottegem

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1960	1961	1962
Vuelta a España	1	DNF	—
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	DNF

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ "Frans De Mulder". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
^ "Palmarès de Frans De Mulder (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^ "Frans De Mulder". ProcyclingStats. 2022.