Michel Dernies

{{short description|Belgian cyclist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Michel Dernies | image = Michel DERNIES.jpg | caption = Dernies at the 1993 Tour de France | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|1|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nivelles, Belgium | death_date = | death_place = | height = 1.8 m | weight = 75 kg | currentteam = {{UCI team code|XRL}} | discipline = Road | role = {{unbulleted list|Rider (retired)|Team manager|Directeur sportif}} | ridertype = | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = | proyears1 = 1983–1984 | proteam1 = {{UCI team code|Fangio|1983}} | proyears2 = 1985–1988 | proteam2 = {{UCI team code|LTS|1985}} | proyears3 = 1989–1991 | proteam3 = {{UCI team code|Weinmann|1989}} | proyears4 = 1992–1995 | proteam4 = {{UCI team code|7-Eleven|1992}} | manageyears1 = 2011–2014 | manageteam1 = {{UCI team code|WBC|2011}} | manageyears2 = 2016– | manageteam2 = {{UCI team code|XRL|2016}} | majorwins = }} '''Michel Dernies''' (born 6 January 1961) is a Belgian former racing cyclist, who rode in twelve Grand Tours between 1985 and 1994.<ref name="CyclingArchives">{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8894 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140901191011/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8894 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=1 September 2014 |title=Michel Dernies |access-date=1 September 2014 |work=Cycling Archives}}</ref><ref name="procyclingstats">{{cite web |url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=113221 |title=Michel Dernies |access-date=1 September 2014 |work=ProCyclingStats}}</ref> He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team {{UCI team code|XRL}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15313/1001276/276|title=Xelliss – Roubaix Lille Metropole|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306215305/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15313/1001276/276|archive-date=6 March 2021}}</ref> thumb|Belgian Michel Dernies celebrates as he crosses the finishing line to win the Round the Henninger Tower cycle race in Frankfurt, Germany on May 1, 1988.

==Major results== {{div col}} ;1983 :1st Stage 2 Tour Européen Lorraine-Alsace :3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;1985 :3rd Binche-Tournai-Binche ;1986 :2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie ;1988 :1st Rund um den Henninger Turm :2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1990 :1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour of Britain ::1st Stage 3 :1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie :2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie :2nd Paris–Brussels :3rd Grand Prix de Momignies :5th Overall Route du Sud ::1st Stage 1 :6th Wincanton Classic :8th Tour du Nord-Ouest ;1991 :1st Binche-Tournai-Binche {{div col end}}

===Grand Tour general classification results timeline===

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col" | Grand Tour ! scope="col" | 1985 ! scope="col" | 1986 ! scope="col" | 1987 ! scope="col" | 1988 ! scope="col" | 1989 ! scope="col" | 1990 ! scope="col" | 1991 ! scope="col" | 1992 ! scope="col" | 1993 ! scope="col" | 1994 |- style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" | 20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey Giro d'Italia |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |84 |125 |81 |- style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" | 20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey Tour de France |96 |113 |115 |— |108 |58 |105 |106 |116 |104 |- style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" | 20px|link=|alt=A gold jersey Vuelta a España |colspan=10 {{N/A|Did not contest during his career}} |}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dernies, Michel}} Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Belgian male cyclists Category:Sportspeople from Nivelles Category:Cyclists from Walloon Brabant Category:Directeur sportifs Category:20th-century Belgian sportsmen