# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rik-van-linden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:57:03.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rik-van-linden"
name: "Rik Van Linden"
slug: "rik-van-linden"
description: "Rik Van Linden is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. He won the points classification in the 1975 Tour de France, ahead of Eddy Merckx."
tagline: "Road bicycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rik_van_linden_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1949-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.69
  momentum:             0.3846153846153846
  historical:           12.68124666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Rik Van Linden"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Linden"
    title: "Rik Van Linden"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Linden"
    title: "Rik Van Linden"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Linden"
    title: "Rik Van Linden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریک فان لیندن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rik Van Linden"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump