Frank Hoste

Frank Hoste

Hoste in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Frank Hoste
Born	(1955-08-29) 29 August 1955 Ghent, Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1977–1978	IJsboerke–Colnago
1979–1980	Marc Zeep Savon–Superia
1981–1982	TI–Raleigh–Creda
1983–1984	Europ Decor–Dries
1985	Del Tongo–Colnago
1986–1987	Fagor
1988–1990	AD Renting–Mini-Flat–Enerday
1990–1991	La William-Saltos
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Points classification (1984) 5 individual stages (1982, 1984, 1986) 3 TTT stages (1981, 1982) Giro d'Italia 2 individual stages (1983, 1985) 1 TTT stages (1985) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1982) Gent–Wevelgem (1982)

Frank Hoste (born 29 August 1955) is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1977 until 1991. He won the points classification in the Tour de France in 1984.

He rode in 13 grand tours throughout his career, eight times in the Tour de France and five times in the Giro d'Italia. All total he won five stages in the Tour de France and during the 1983 Giro d'Italia he came in the top 5 on eight different stages, one of which was a stage win. Hoste started a bicycle factory after his professional career.

Major results

1976

3rd Flèche Ardennaise

9th Circuit du Hainaut

1977

3rd GP Union Dortmund

6th Grand Prix de Fourmies

7th Scheldeprijs

8th Circuit du Hainaut

10th Overall Ronde van Nederland

1978

1st Grand Prix de Denain

2nd Dwars door België

2nd Le Samyn

3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

3rd Omloop van het Zuidwesten

10th Omloop van het Waasland

1979

2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

2nd Scheldeprijs

2nd Druivenkoers Overijse

3rd Omloop Het Volk

6th Dwars door België

6th Omloop van het Houtland

7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

10th Overall Three Days of De Panne

1980

8th Overall Three Days of De Panne

10th Herinneringsprijs Dokter Tistaert – Prijs Groot-Zottegem

1981

1st Dwars door België

1st Prologue Tour Méditerranéen

Tour de France

1st Stages 1b (TTT) & 4 (TTT)

2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

2nd Circuit des Frontières

3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges

4th Omloop Het Volk

5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Stage 3

7th Road race, National Road Championships

10th Scheldeprijs

1982

1st Road race, National Road Championships

1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Stage 3

1st Gent–Wevelgem

Tour de France

1st Stages 8 & 9a (TTT)

4th Dwars door België

4th Brussels–Ingooigem

4th Omloop van het Leiedal

7th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

8th Druivenkoers Overijse

1983

Tour de Suisse

1st Stages 1, 2 & 8

Volta a Catalunya

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1 & 3a

Vuelta a las Tres Provincias

1st Stages 2 & 3a

Vuelta a Andalucía

1st Stages 5a & 5b (ITT)

1st Stage 16a Giro d'Italia

3rd Gent–Wevelgem

3rd Scheldeprijs

5th Overall Three Days of De Panne

1st Stage 2

5th Züri-Metzgete

8th Paris–Roubaix

1984

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

Tour de France

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1, 6 & 21

Vuelta a Aragón

1st Stages 2 & 5

2nd Trofeo Luis Puig

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

7th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

1985

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 2 (TTT) & 6

1st Stage 5a Vuelta a Andalucía

5th Trofeo Laigueglia

1986

1st GP du canton d'Argovie

1st Stage 15 Tour de France

Volta a Catalunya

1st Stages 1 & 3

6th Brussels–Ingooigem

9th Paris–Tours

1987

5th Herinneringsprijs Dokter Tistaert – Prijs Groot-Zottegem

1988

2nd Omloop van het Houtland

3rd GP du canton d'Argovie

3rd De Kustpijl

6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4a

6th Circuit des Frontières

7th Overall Kellogg's Tour

8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs

1989

2nd Scheldeprijs

7th Overall Tour of Belgium

7th Paris–Brussels

10th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden

1990

1st Omloop van de Westkust

8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

9th GP du canton d'Argovie

1991

7th Nokere Koerse

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991
Vuelta a España	Did not contest during career
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—	—	114	—	117	136	119	—	125	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	DNF	95	DNF	—	100	—	116	DNF	124	DNF	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

External links

• Frank Hoste's bicycle factory Archived 12 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• Frank Hoste at Cycling Archives (archived)