Patrick Lefevere (born January 6, 1955 in Moorslede) is a Belgian cycling team manager of the Quick Step-Innergetic cycling team. A former professional himself (1976-1979), he is from Flanders and has been involved with professional road bicycle racing for many years.

His major wins are the 1978 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne edition and the fourth stage in the Vuelta a España, also in 1978. He was a sporting director of the immensely successful Mapei of the 1990s, and he started the Domo-Farm Frites team of the early 2000s. Since 2003 he has been manager of the Quick Step-Davitamon which is now named the Quick Step-Innergetic team.

Lefevere is famous for having managed teams with many one-day race super-stars such as Johan Museeuw, Michele Bartoli, Paolo Bettini, Richard Virenque, and many others. His teams' successes in the Classic cycle races is nearly unmatched, on occasion dominating to the point that his riders fill the entire podium. At the end of the 2005 season he had two world champions on his roster: Tom Boonen on the road and the departing Michael Rogers in the time trial.

Unfortunately, his success in the one-day races has not been successfully replicated in the stage races.

Lefevere has suffered several heart diseases due to over-excitement when in the races, and now delegates the role of directeur-sportif to his assistants.

Lefevre has been accused for his role in alleged doping procedures with various riders by the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws in an article titled "Lefevre, 30 Years Of Dope"

Quotes

• "Whoever wins five of the former World Cup races in one year, as well as having a World Champion , and has been in the firing line from January to October, can speak of a huge year."
• "It's hypocritical. Armstrong brought so much more international attention to cycling. I have a lot of strong feelings about this, so I better not say anything else."
• "I treat all my riders the same, but Johan Museeuw has a special place in my heart."
• Maybe we should sue Landis, why not? Why don't we use the American way? As long as Landis continues to claim he doesn't know about anything, such a scenario becomes more and more likely.
• I want to throw up when I hear him. Landis has turned the clock twenty years backwards.

External links

• Quick Step-Innergetic official website

References