# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudy-matthijs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:53:36.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudy-matthijs"
name: "Rudy Matthijs"
slug: "rudy-matthijs"
description: "Rudy Matthijs is a Belgian retired professional road bicycle racer. He won 4 stages in the Tour de France, 3 of which came during the 1985 Tour de France on stages 1 and 2, and then on the final stage of the tour with one of the biggest sprinter's stages in all of cycling on the Champs Elysees."
tagline: "Belgian road bicycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rudi_Matthys_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1959-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.937077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthys"
    title: "Rudy Matthys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "رودي ماتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "رودى ماتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthijs"
    title: "Rudy Matthijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthijs"
    title: "Rudy Matthijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthijs"
    title: "Rudy Matthijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthijs"
    title: "Rudy Matthijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "رودی ماتایس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthijs"
    title: "Rudy Matthijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Matthijs"
    title: "Rudy Matthijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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