Jozef Schils Explained

Jozef Schils
Birth Date:4 September 1931
Birth Place:Kersbeek-Miskom, Belgium
Death Place:Liège, Belgium
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Amateuryears1:1951
Amateurteam1:Garin–Wolber
Proyears1:1951–1953
Proteam1:Garin–Wolber
Proyears2:1953
Proteam2:Bianchi–Pirelli
Proyears3:1954
Proteam3:Touring–Pirelli
Proyears4:1955
Proteam4:Girardengo
Proyears5:1956–1959
Proteam5:Faema
Proyears6:1960–1962
Proteam6:Mercier–BP–Hutchinson
Proyears7:1963
Proteam7:Wiel's–Groene Leeuw
Proyears8:1964
Proteam8:Dr. Mann
Proyears9:1965
Proteam9:Lamot–Libertas
Majorwins:Stage races

Paris–Tours (1953)One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1952)

Nationale Sluitingsprijs (1953)

Nokere Koerse (1955)

Brussels–Ingooigem (1956)

Schaal Sels (1956)

Grand Prix d'Isbergues (1960)

Flèche Hesbignonne (1960, 1962)

Jozef "Jef" Schils (4 September 1931, in Kersbeek-Miskom – 3 March 2007, in Liège) was a Belgian cyclist.

In 1952, at the age of 21, Jozef Schils, who had just become a professional racing cyclist[1] and was still in the army, became Belgian road racing champion. He was nominated for the road world championships in Luxembourg in the same year and finished tenth.

Schils rode as a professional until 1965 and won around 40 Belgian criteria during this time. 1953 was his most successful year, in which he won Paris-Tours and the Nationale Sluitingsprijs.[2] In 1955 he won at Nokere Koerse. His nickname was "little Coppi", because Fausto Coppi had praised him. However, he turned down offers to go to Italy. In 1957, he won the Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten in Ichtegem on a postman's bike.[3] In 1960, he switched to the French team "Mercier", which was led by Antonin Magne and in which Raymond Poulidor rode. At the end of the season he had a hard crash and he crashed again heavily in 1961. In 1965, he ended his career.[4]

Then Jozef Schils opened a café in Koekelberg, later a laundry and a bicycle shop. Jozef Schils was the father of the former professional racing cyclist Patrick Schils and was the grandfather of Dominic Schils, also a racing cyclist of note.[5]

Major results

Source:[6]

1951
  • 4th Coppa Bernocchi
    1952
  • 1st Belgian Road Champion Road race
  • 1st Stage 3a Tour de Romandie
    1953
  • 1st Belgian Road Champion Interclubs road race
  • 1st Paris–Tours
  • 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
  • 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé
  • 1st Vilvoorde–Houtem
  • 1st Grand Prix of Walloon Brabant
  • 1st Grand Prix of Haspengouw
    1954
  • 1st Tour of Hesbaye
  • 1st De Drie Zustersteden
  • 1st Brussels–Bost
  • 1st Brussels–Couvin
  • 1st Grand Prix of Brabant Wallon
  • 1st Trophée des Trois Pays
  • 1st Ronde van Haspengouw
  • 3rd Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé
  • 4th Paris–Brussels
  • 4th Omloop van Limburg
  • 4th Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
    1955
  • 1st Nokere Koerse
  • 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde
  • 1st Grote Prijs Berlare
  • 1st Hoeilaart-Diest-Hoeilaart
  • 1st GP Benego
  • 5th Flèche Halloise
  • 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
  • 8th Paris–Tours
    1956
  • 1st Brussels–Ingooigem
  • 1st Schelde–Dender–Leie
  • 1st Schaal Sels
  • 1st Sint-Lievens-Esse
  • 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ouest
  • 3rd Heistse Pijl
    1957
  • 1st GP Benego
  • 1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
  • 1st Flèche Halloise
  • 1st Brussels–Bost
  • 2nd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
  • 2nd Brussels–Ingooigem
  • 2nd Grote Prijs Berlare
  • 3rd Coppa Bernocchi
  • 3rd Etoile du Leon
  • 4th Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 5th Tour de Wallonie
  • 8th Omloop Het Volk
  • 9th Gent–Wevelgem
    1958
  • 1st Trofee Luc Van Biesen
  • 1st Vilvoorde–Houtem
  • 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Netherlands
  • 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour du Levant
  • 1st Stage 3 Driedaagse van Antwerpen
  • 1st Antwerp–Genk
  • 1st Stage 3 (TTT) & 8 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
  • 2nd GP Flandria
  • 2nd Milano–Mantova
  • 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
  • 2nd De Drie Zustersteden
  • 3rd Heistse Pijl
  • 3rd Overall GP Marvan
  • 1st Stage 1
  • 4th Overall Tour of Lombardy
  • 5th Scheldeprijs
  • 5th Brussels–Ingooigem
  • 6th Belgian Road Champion Road race
    1959
  • 1st Circuit des 3 Provinces
  • 1st Stages 1b and 5 Tour du Levant
  • 1st Stage 2 & 6 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
  • 5th Tour de Wallonie
  • 6th Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 8th Paris–Brussels
    1960
  • 1st Grand Prix of Isbergues
  • 1st Stage 4 Tour du Nord
  • 1st Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
  • 1st GP de la Basse-Sambre
  • 1st GP Brabant Wallon
  • 1st Flèche Hesbignonne-Cras Avernas
  • 1st Stages 2 and 4b Tour of Belgium
  • 1st Circuit of Basse-Sambre
  • 2nd Heistse Pijl
  • 2nd Schaal Sels
  • 2nd Schelde–Dender–Leie
  • 2nd Paris–Valenciennes
  • 3rd GP Flandria
  • 5th Brussels–Ingooigem
  • 8th Tour de Wallonie
    1961
  • 1st Hoegaarden–Antwerp–Hoegaarden
  • 1st Sint-Lievens-Esse
    1962
  • 1st Flèche Hesbignonne-Cras Avernas
  • 1st Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
  • 3rd Druivenkoers Overijse
  • 3rd Schelde–Dender–Leie
  • 3rd Trofee Luc Van Biesen
  • 4th Omloop van de Vlasstreek
  • 5th Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
  • 8th Tour de Wallonie
  • 10th La Flèche Wallonne
    1963
  • 1st Trofee Luc Van Biesen
  • 4th Schelde–Dender–Leie
  • 5th Scheldeprijs
  • 5th Brussels–Ingooigem
  • 5th GP Stad Vilvoorde
    1964
  • 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
  • 2nd Omloop van het Houtland
  • 4th De Kustpijl

    Notes and References

    1. Personal communication
    2. Web site: 2022 . Joseph Schils . ProcyclingStats . en.
    3. Web site: 4 March 2007 . Ex-renner Jozef Schils (75) overleden . hbvl.be . nl.
    4. Web site: Palmarès de Jozef Schils (Bel) . 31 December 2021 . Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu . fr.
    5. Web site: 4 March 2007 . Ex-renner Jozef Schils (75) overleden . gva.be . nl.
    6. Web site: Jozef Schils. Cycling archives. 9 February 2018.

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