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Eric Vanderaerden (born 11 February 1962) is a retired road cyclist from the town of Lummen Belgium.He was a considerable talent winning the prologue time trial of the Vuelta and the Tour de France in his professional debut year 1983. As for classics he won the Tour of Flanders in 1985 and Paris–Roubaix in 1987. In the Tour de France his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage.