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Gustaaf Deloor

Belgian cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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Gustaaf Deloor was a Belgian road racing cyclist and the winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España in 1935 and 1936. The 1936 edition remains the slowest winning finish time of the Vuelta in 150:07:54, the race consisted of 22 stages with a total length of 4,407 km. Gustaaf finished first and his older brother Alfons finished second overall.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gustaaf Deloor” is belgian cyclist. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gustaaf, Deloor and Belgian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gustaaf, Deloor and Belgian is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1935 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gustaaf Deloor” 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.