- He was a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile Team, professional team.
- Godefroot was a specialist in one-day classic cycle races, winning the Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1967), Paris-Roubaix (1969), and the Tour of Flanders (1968, 1978).
- He won a bronze medal in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
- On 25 May 2007 Bjarne Riis, winner of the 1996 Tour de France and member of Team Telekom of which Godefroot was coach, admitted using EPO. Riis claims Godefroot turned a blind eye to drug use on the team.
- Besides winning the green jersey at the 1970 Tour de France, Godefroot was the first to win the final stage on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France.
- Walter Godefroot was the first to discover the Koppenberg. He informed the organizer of the Tour of Flanders about the climb's existence but didn't reveal its location. This information only came to light many years later.
- Godefroot was the owner of a bicycle shop in the Flemish municipality of Deurle.
- Godefroot was a professional cyclist from 1965 to 1979 and won, among other things, ten stages in the Tour de France,.
- In 1992, Godefroot was appointed sporting director of Team Telekom, and from 2004 to 2005, he was the team manager of the T-Mobile team. He retired after the 2005 season, but returned in 2006 as an advisor to Astana, a ProTour team led by Alexander Vinokourov and Andreas Klöden.
- Following accusations by Jörg Jaksche regarding involvement in doping practices, Godefroot resigned from his position as team manager in June 2007.
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