He won Paris–Nice, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and came in the top 10 of Gent–Wevelgem, La Flèche Wallonne, Paris–Roubaix, Paris-Tours and Milan San Remo.

[2] Fred De Bruyne also won the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo competition three years running, from 1956 to 1958.

This was the forerunner of the Super Prestige Pernod, later replaced by the UCI Ranking Points List.

Six years later, in February 1994, De Bruyne died of a heart attack after a lingering illness.

He was not known as the great top talent, but his intelligence and innate discipline enabled him to amass a brilliant record.