# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddy-maertens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:58.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddy-maertens"
name: "Freddy Maertens"
slug: "freddy-maertens"
description: "Freddy Maertens is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist who was twice world road race champion. Maertens' career swung between winning more than 50 races in a season to winning almost none and then back again. His life has been marked by debt and alcoholism. It took him more than two decades to pay a tax debt. At one point early in his career, between the 1976 Tour and 1977 Giro, Maertens won 28 out of 60 Grand Tour stages that he entered before abandoning the Giro due to injury on stage 8b. He achieved eight Tour stage wins, thirteen Vuelta stage wins and seven Giro stage wins in less than one calendar year."
tagline: "Belgian cyclist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freddy_Maertens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1952-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.69
  momentum:             1.385435168738899
  historical:           20.06635333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump