{{short description|Belgian cyclist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Richard Depoorter | image = Richard_Depoorter.png | caption = Depoorter with Super | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|4|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = Ichtegem, Belgium | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|6|16|1915|4|29|df=yes}} | death_place = Wassen, Switzerland | height = | weight = | discipline = | role = Rider | ridertype = | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = | proyears1 = | proteam1 = | majorwins = | medaltemplates = | show-medals = }} '''Richard Depoorter''' (29 April 1915 – 16 June 1948) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the 1943 and 1947 editions of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.<ref name="ProCyclingStats">{{cite web |url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Richard_Depoorter |title=Richard Depoorter |accessdate=3 October 2015 |work=ProCyclingStats}}</ref> He crashed into a tunnel wall on a "descent of the Sustenpas near Bern"<ref>{{cite web|last=Pelkey|first=Charles|title=The Explainer — Surviving in the hardest of times|url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2009/09/news/the-explainer-surviving-in-the-hardest-of-times_97336|publisher=VeloNews.Com|accessdate=17 July 2012|date=2 September 2009}}</ref> during the 1948 Tour of Switzerland and died onsite or shortly thereafter due to his injuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8797#memo |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121095351/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8797%23memo |url-status=usurped |archive-date=21 January 2013 |title=Richard Depoorter |publisher=Cyclingarchives.com |date=29 April 1915 |accessdate=17 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Richard Depoorter|url=http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/palmares/depoorter_richard.php|publisher=Memoire di cyclisme|accessdate=17 July 2012|archive-date=13 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313035815/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/palmares/depoorter_richard.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Richard Depoorter (body being carried off road after fatal accident)|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/beeldfiche.php?beeldid=94231|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121080941/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/beeldfiche.php?beeldid=94231|url-status=usurped|archive-date=21 January 2013|publisher=Cycling Archives|accessdate=11 July 2012}}</ref>
==See also== * List of professional cyclists who died during a race
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