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Gerrit Schulte
Gerrit Schulte (7 January 1916 – 26 February 1992) was a Dutch professional track bicycle racer. Between 1940 and 1960 he won 19 six-day races out of 73 starts and was one of the dominant Six days racers of his time. Schulte was as well successful in track pursuit, becoming national champion ten times, European champion twice and world champion once, in 1948, when he beat Fausto Coppi in the final. He was also successful as a road race cyclists, becoming national champion three times and winning a stage in the 1938 Tour de France. Since 1955, the Gerrit Schulte Trophy has been awarded by the national federation to the best professional rider in the Netherlands. Biography Amateur career Schulte competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the individual and team road races, but did not finish. Next year he turned professional. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the City Region of Amsterdam, urban area and 2,480,394 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now designated a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Amstel River that was dammed to control flooding; the city's name derives from the Amstel dam. Originally a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became a major world port during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, when the Netherlands was an economic powerhouse. Amsterdam is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Schulte 1960b
Gerrit is a Dutch male name meaning "''brave with the spear''", the Dutch and Frisian form of Gerard. People with this name include: * Gerrit Achterberg (1905–1962), Dutch poet * Gerrit van Arkel (1858–1918), Dutch architect * Gerrit Badenhorst (born 1962), South African powerlifter and professional strongman competitor * Gerrit Battem (c. 1636 – 1684), Dutch landscape painter * Gerrit Beneker (1882–1934), American painter and illustrator * Gerrit Berckheyde (1638–1698), Dutch painter * Gerrit Berkhoff (1901–1996), Dutch chemist and university rector * Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer (1903–1996), Dutch theologian * Gerrit Berveling (born 1944), Dutch Esperanto author * Gerrit Blaauw (born 1924), Dutch computer engineer * Gerrit de Blanken (1894–1961), Dutch pottery artist * Gerrit van Bloclant (1578–1650), Dutch Renaissance painter * Gerrit Bol (1906–1989), Dutch mathematician * Gerrit Braamcamp (1699–1771), Dutch distiller, timber merchant and art collector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Post
Peter Post (12 November 193314 January 2011) was a Dutch professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1956 to 1972. Post competed in road and track racing. As a rider he is best remembered for Six-day racing, having competed in 155 races and won 65. Because of this success he was known as “De Keizer van de Zesdaagse” or “The Emperor of the Six Days”. In road racing his main achievements were winning the 1964 Paris–Roubaix and becoming national road race champion in 1963. He was on the podium three times at the La Flèche Wallonne but never won. Post’s other nickname was “de Lange” or “Big Man” because he was tall for a cyclist. Gives nicknames and birth date. After retiring from racing he had success as a Directeur sportif. Peter Post died in Amstelveen on 14 January 2011. Road career Post turned professional in 1956 with the small Dutch team R.I.H. He rode for the first few years with Gerrit Schulte, a track rider who also rode on the road and was an inspir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Bugdahl
Klaus Bugdahl (born 24 November 1934) is a retired German cyclist who was active between 1954 and 1978 both on the road and track. He won the German National Road Race in 1958. On track, he won several medals at European championships, mostly in the madison event. On the road, he competed in 228 six-day races and won 37 of them, nearly all in his native Germany, which places him as one of the ten most successful racers. He completed his last six-day race in 1978 in Milan, aged 43. His racing partners included Eddy Merckx, Patrick Sercu, Rolf Wolfshohl, Rudi Altig, Dieter Kemper and Rik Van Steenbergen Rik Van Steenbergen (9 September 1924 – 15 May 2003) was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists. Early life Van Steenbergen was born in Arendonk into a poor fami .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bugdahl, Klaus 1934 births Living people German male cyclists Cyclists from Berlin German cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armin Von Büren
Armin von Büren (20 April 1928 – 10 February 2018) was a Swiss cyclist. A professional from 1948 to 1962 and a specialist in six-day races, he competed in 58 and won 13. He also won the European Madison Championships in 1953 and 1954 and the European Omnium Championships in 1956. He also occasionally competed on the road and won the Tour du Lac Léman in 1951 and 1953. His brothers Oskar and Émile were also professional cyclists. Major results Track ;1950 : 1st Six Days of Hanover (with Hugo Koblet) : 3rd Six Days of Paris ;1951 : 1st (with Ferdi Kübler) : 3rd Six Days of Saint-Étienne : 3rd Six Days of Berlin ;1952 : 1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Hugo Koblet) : 1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with Hugo Koblet) : 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Walter Bucher) : 1st Six Days of Kiel (with Jean Roth) : 3rd Six Days of London ;1953 : 1st Madison, European Track Championships (with Hugo Koblet) : 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Hugo Koblet) : 1st Six Days of Frankfurt (wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Gillen
Lucien Gillen (7 October 1928 in Luxembourg City – 11 August 2010 in Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgish cyclist. Gillen followed in the footsteps of his father, Maurice Gillen, who worked as a train driver but also competed as a cyclist at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Although he competed on the road, his most significant successes were on the track: in the World Championship individual pursuit, which he competed in 19 times, he took the silver medal in 1949 behind Fausto Coppi, and took two bronze medals in 1952 and 1954. In 1955 Gillen also set a new world record for the 5 km individual pursuit at the opening of the Palazzo dello Sport in Milan, where he took two seconds off the old record held by Rolf Graf, recording a time of 6:19.2. He also competed in 143 six-day races, making his debut in 1948 at the Six Days of New York, where he and team-mate Mett Clemens finished second. He took a total of 11 six-day wins between 1953 and 1964. He retired from international compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Werner Nielsen
Kay Werner Nielsen (28 May 1921 in Aarhus – 13 March 2014 in Copenhagen) was a Danish cyclist. Major results ;1948 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships ;1949 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships ;1950 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships ;1951 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships :1st Six Days of Copenhagen (with Oscar Plattner) :3rd World Individual Pursuit Championships ;1952 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships :1st Six Days of Copenhagen (with Lucien Gillen) ;1953 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships :2nd World Individual Pursuit Championships ;1954 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships ;1955 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships :1st Six Days of Copenhagen (with Evan Klamer) :1st Six Days of Aarhus (with Evan Klamer) ;1956 :1st National Individual Pursuit Championships :1st Six Days of Zurich (with Gerrit Schulte) :1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with Evan Klamer) :3rd World Individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Forlini
Dominique Forlini (Paris, 14 September 1924 - October 2014) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Forlini won many six-day racing events, and also some road victories, most importantly two stages in the 1954 Tour de France. Major results ;1950 :Paris - Valenciennes ;1954 :Six days of Berlin (with Emile Carrera) :Six days of Brussels (with Georges Senfftleben) :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 6 and 15 ;1955 :European championship track madison (with Georges Senfftleben) :Six days of Frankfurt (with Georges Senfftleben) ;1956 :Six days of Copenhagen (with Georges Senfftleben Georges Senfftleben (19 December 1922 in Clamart – 24 August 1998 in Èze) was a French track cyclist. Major results ;1944 :1st National Sprint Championships :1st Grand Prix de Paris ;1946 :2nd World Sprint Championships ;1947 :1st Nation ...) ;1959 :Daumesnil External links *Official Tour de France results for Dominique Forlini French male cyclists 1924 births 2014 deaths French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Carrara
Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren Military *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s * Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other * ''Emile'' (film), a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan See also * * *Aemilius (other) *Emilio (other) *Emílio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Peters
Gerard "Gerrit" Peters (31 July 1920 – 6 April 2005) was a Dutch track and road cyclist who was active between 1941 and 1956. On track he won the world title in the individual pursuit in 1946 and the European title in madison in 1950. On the road, he won six six-day races, in Ghent (1950), Paris (1950, 1953), Berlin (1954), Antwerpen (1954) and Münster (1955). He also rode in the 1951 Tour de France Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United .... References 1920 births 2005 deaths Dutch male cyclists Sportspeople from Haarlem UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Dutch track cyclists Cyclists from North Holland 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronde Van Nederland
The Tour of the Netherlands ''(Dutch: Ronde van Nederland)'' was a road bicycle racing stage-race in the Netherlands, founded in 1948. It's an annual race since 1975. Because of the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was replaced by the Eneco Tour. The first edition started on May 6, from Dam Square, Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar .... The riders finished on May 15, nine days later, in the Olympisch Stadion. Winners External links History {{RondevanNederland Cycle races in the Netherlands Defunct cycling races in the Netherlands Recurring sporting events established in 1948 1948 establishments in the Netherlands Recurring sporting events disestabli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Days Of Ghent
The Six Days of Ghent ( nl, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium. It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's ''Citadelpark''. The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred by the death of one of the riders. During the fifth day's racing, Isaac Gálvez of Spain rode into the barrier edging the outside of the track and died on his way to hospital. The event includes the Memorial Patrick Sercu madison, named after the former race director at Ghent and holder of the world record for number of six-day victories, Patrick Sercu, who died in 2019. The 2009 event took place from 24 November to 29 November. A Danish team formed by Alex Rasmussen and his companion Michael Mørkøv won with a 3-point difference. The previous year's winner, Iljo Keisse, ended second. The 2010 event was held from 23 November to 28 November. The track used for the event, the Kuipke, is measured at 166.66 m, with steep side banks s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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