Walter Godefroot was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer and directeur sportif of Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile Team.
Godefroot at the 1997 Paris–Nice
The peloton led by Godefroot in Dwars door België, 1975
The 1971 Tour de France was the 58th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,608-kilometre race consisted of 22 stages, including three split stages, starting in Mulhouse on
Walter Godefroot
…Milan–San Remo 5th Paris–Roubaix 7th Road race, UCI World Championships 9th Rund um den Henninger Turm 10th GP du Tournaisis 1971 1st Textielprijs Vichte Tour de France 1st Stage 9 Held after Stages 1b & 9 Vuelta a España 1st Stages 7 & 8 1st Stage 1 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie 4th E3 Prijs…
The eastern city of Mulhouse hosted the Grand Départ across three days.
Sonolor–Lejeune rider Lucien Van Impe won the mountains classification and finished third in the general classification.
Eddy Merckx leading his Molteni team during the team time trial prologue in Mulhouse, which they won
In stage 2, the Col du Firstplan [fr] aided in the formation of a sixteen-strong breakaway group of mostly pre-race favourites who finished with a margin of over nine minutes.