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1923 Tour Of Flanders
The seventh running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 18 March 1923. Swiss rider Heiri Suter won the race in a three-man sprint with Belgians Charles Deruyter and Albert Dejonghe.Vanwalleghem, Rik (1991), De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Pinguin, Belgium, , p 38 Suter became the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders. 43 of 86 riders finished. Route The race started and finished in Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ... – totaling 243 km. The course featured two categorized climbs: * Tiegemberg * Kwaremont Results References Tour of Flanders 1923 in road cycling 1923 in Belgian sport March 1923 sports events {{TourofFlanders-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Van Hevel
Jules Vanhevel (10 March 1895 in Koekelare – 21 July 1969 in Ostend) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He was a professional from 1919 to 1936. Biography In the literature, his name is often misspelled as "Jules Van Hevel. The cyclist Jules A. Vanhevel should not be confused with Jules K. Vanhevel, the last miller of the East Mill at Gistel, a relative Jules Vanhevel his first racing bike was a Bercley. Record as beginner ;1913 * 1st place "The First Step" at Brussels * 1st place Harelbeke- Gent Harelbeke- * 1st place at Tielt Record as independent ;1914 * 1st place coast of Circulation * 3rd place Grand Prix Brussels * 1st place Grand Prix Merkem * 1st place Evergem- Oostende Evergem- * 1st place Grand Prix Franco-Belge Record in the war / in military service Jules Vanhevel served as a cyclist in the 1st Artillery Regiment and later in the trench mortars Van Doren of the 1st Army Division. He was injured and was sent to England ill. ;1917 * Molinari Cup 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Road Cycling
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Denis Verschueren
Denis Verschueren (11 February 1897 – 18 April 1954) was a Belgium, Belgian racing cyclist. External links *Cyclinghalloffame 1897 births 1954 deaths Belgian male cyclists Cyclists from Antwerp Province People from Berlaar {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Frantz
Nicolas Frantz (; 4 November 1899 – 8 November 1985) was a Luxembourgish bicycle racer with 60 professional racing victories over his 12-year career (1923 to 1934). He rode for the Thomann team in 1923 and then for Alcyon- Dunlop from 1924 to 1931. He won the Tour de France in 1927 and 1928. Nicolas Frantz was the son of a prosperous farming family. Frantz could have taken over the farm but had no interest in it. In 1914 he rode his first race. He won. That convinced him that farming was not for him. He was close to unbeatable in Luxembourg until the start of the first world war. Frantz, a well-built man weighing 80 kg, turned professional in 1923. He had immediate success, winning Paris-Lyon and the GP Faber. His advantage in stage races was his consistent health and fitness. He rode the Tour de France for the first time in 1924, won two stages and finished second just 35 minutes and 36 seconds behind Ottavio Bottecchia. In 1925 and 1926 he won another four stages and fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peugeot (cycling Team)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes. It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon. History Peugeot cycles started producing bicycles in 1882, and from then on it was involved in sponsoring cyclists. At the beginning of the century a Peugeot cycling team existed. Hippolyte Aucouturier rode Peugeot cycles when he won Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris in 1903, and when he was disqualified from the 1904 Tour de France in which he had finished fourth overall, for the illegal use of trains and cars. But the Peugeot team obtained success for the following four years in the Tour de France with Louis Trousselier, René Pottier and Lucien Petit-Breton. The Peugeot team finished second overall in the 1912 Giro d'Italia. The team would obtain two further victories in the Tour de France with Belgian Philippe Thys before the out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Rossius
Jean Rossius (27 December 1890, Cerexhe-Heuseux, Soumagne – 2 May 1966) was a Belgian road racing cyclist who won five stages in total in the Tour de France. In the 1914 Tour de France he finished in fourth place in the overall classification, his best finishing. Major results ;1914 :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 2 and 9 ::Leading general classification for 4 days (joint with Philippe Thys) ;1919 :Liège-Malmedy-Liège : Belgian National Road Race Championships :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 1Rossius was the winner of the first stage, but received a 30 minute penalty for helping Philippe Thys illegally, therefore he was not leading the general classification after stage one. ;1920 :Retinne-Spa-Retinne :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcyon (cycling Team)
Alcyon was a French professional cycling team that was active from 1905 to 1959, and returned in 1961 and 1962. It was started by Alcyon, a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. History The team won the Tour de France four times before World War I with François Faber in 1909, Octave Lapize in 1910, Gustave Garrigou in 1911 and Odile Defraye in 1912. Alcyon won the team prize at the Tour de France from 1909 to 1912 and then from 1927 to 1929. Immediately after the First World War, Alcyon like many other bicycle companies joined a Consortium that employed many riders under the La Sportive name. This consortium would win the Tour de France from 1919 to 1921. The Consortium stopped in 1922 and the member companies which included Automoto, Peugeot and Alcyon restarted up their separate cycling teams. Alcyon grew into a very strong team that dominated the Tour de France with three wins in with Nicolas Frantz in 1927 and in 1928 and Maurice De Waele in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Masson (cyclist)
Emile Masson (Morialmé, 16 October 1888 — Bierset, 25 October 1973) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Masson won two stages in the 1922 Tour de France. His son, Émile Masson Jr., also became a successful cyclist. Major results ;1919 :Tour of Belgium ;1922 :1922 Tour de France: ::Winner stages 11 and 12 ;1923 :Bordeaux–Paris The Bordeaux–Paris professional cycle race was one of Europe's classic cycle races, and one of the longest in the professional calendar, covering approximately – more than twice most single-day races. It started in northern Bordeaux in sout ... :Tour of Belgium :Sclessin – St. Hubert – Sclessin : GP Wolber ;1924 :Jemeppe – Bastogne – Jemeppe : Paris-Lyon External links Official Tour de France results for Emile Masson (senior) at ''the Cycling Website'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théophile Beeckman
Théophile Beeckman (1 November 1896, in Meerbeke – 22 November 1955, in Meerbeke) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1922 :Heure le Romain - Malmédy - Heure le Romain ;1924 :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 3 ::5th place overall classification ;1925 :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 10 ::6th place overall classification ;1926 :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...: ::4th place overall classification External links *Official Tour de France results for Théophile Beeckman 1896 births 1955 deaths People from Ninove Belgian male cyclists Belgian Tour de France stage winners Cyclists from East Flanders {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Ruyter
Charles Deruyter (27 January 1890 – 24 January 1955) was a Belgian professional road and track racing cyclist. His best results on the road included second place in the 1913 Paris–Roubaix and the 1923 Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ..., and winning the only edition of the Circuit des Champs de Bataille held as a stage race, in 1919. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Deruyter, Charles Belgian male cyclists Road racing cyclists Belgian track cyclists 1890 births 1955 deaths People from Wattrelos Cyclists from Hauts-de-France Sportspeople from Nord (French department) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiri Suter
Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899 – 6 November 1978) was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won Paris–Roubaix, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year. He also holds a record six victories in Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland's most important one-day race. Suter won 58 professional races, including: * Grand Prix Wolber (unofficial world championship): (1922, 1925) * Road champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929) * motor-paced champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933) * Züri-Metzgete: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929) * Paris–Roubaix: (1923) * Tour of Flanders: (1923) * Bordeaux–Paris (1925) * Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927) Career ;1919 : 1st - Züri-Metzgete : 1st — Grand Prix Aurore : 1st — Tour de Zürich ;1920 : National road champion : 1st - Züri-Metzgete : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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