Antoine Demoitié (16 October 1990 – 27 March 2016) was a Belgian cyclist, who rode professionally between 2011 and his death in 2016.

Death

At the age of 25, Demoitié crashed on 27 March 2016 when he went down in a pile-up of several cyclists and was then hit by a motorcycle in the Gent–Wevelgem road race. He died that evening in the hospital.

Major results

2012 1st Stage 2b Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux 3rd Overall Triptyque Ardennais 1st Stage 3 3rd Gooikse Pijl 5th De Vlaamse Pijl 6th La Côte Picarde 7th Overall Carpathian Couriers Race 1st Stages 2 & 3 9th Memorial Van Coningsloo 2013 2nd Grote Prijs Stad Geel 3rd Ronde Pévéloise 4th Ronde van Noord-Holland 9th Zuid Oost Drenthe Classic I 10th Polynormande 10th Druivenkoers Overijse 2014 1st Tour du Finistère 2nd Omloop van het Waasland 4th Handzame Classic 6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 7th Paris–Bourges 2015 1st Wanzele Koerse 2nd Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem 2nd Handzame Classic 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 4th Cholet-Pays de Loire 7th Halle–Ingooigem 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 9th Omloop van het Waasland 10th Overall Circuit des Ardennes 1st Stage 4 2016 2nd Dorpenomloop Rucphen

See also List of professional cyclists who died during a race

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