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Christophe Sercu

Belgian cycling team manager

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ2889132 ↗
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Christophe Sercu (born 16 October 1970) is a Belgian cycling manager, who currently works as the general manager of UCI ProTeam Team Flanders–Baloise.

He is the son of former cycling champion Patrick Sercu. He is involved in organizing some cycling races.

From 2000 until 2004, he was General Manager of the Lotto–Adecco cycling teams.

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The public source identifies “Christophe Sercu” as belgian cycling team manager. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Christophe, Sercu and Belgian.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2000, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-10-16. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Christophe, Sercu and Belgian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Christophe Sercu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.