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1937 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
The UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, men's road race at the 1937 UCI Road World Championships was the 11th edition of the event. The race took place on Monday 23 August 1937 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The race was won by Éloi Meulenberg of Belgium. Final classification References 1937 UCI Road World Championships, Men's Road Race UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race {{UCIMen-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Jersey
The rainbow jersey is the distinctive cycling jersey, jersey worn by the reigning World Cycling Championship, world champion in a cycling discipline, since 1927. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue; the same colours that appear in the rings on the Olympic flag. The tradition is applied to all disciplines, including road bicycle racing, road racing, track cycling, track racing, cyclo-cross, BMX, Trials and the disciplines within mountain biking. A world champion must wear the jersey when competing in the same discipline, category and speciality for which the title was won. For example, the World Cycling Championship, world road race champion would wear the garment while competing in stage races (except for time trial stages) and one-day races, but would not be entitled to wear it during time trials. Similarly, on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 UCI Road World Championships
The 1937 UCI Road World Championships was the seventeenth edition of the UCI Road World Championships. The championships took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The race for the professionals was the longest to date: 297.5 kilometers over a flat course of 8.5 kilometers, which the riders had to complete 35 times. Only eight riders finished the professional road race. In the same period, the 1937 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were organized on the velodrome of Ordrup, near Copenhagen. Events Summary Medals table References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éloi Meulenberg
Eloi Meulenberg (22 September 1912 – 26 February 1989) was a Belgium, Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He is best known for his gold medal in the Elite Race of the 1937 UCI Road World Championships, 1937 Road World Championships and his nine stage wins in the Tour de France. Major results ;1932 : 1st Stage 9 Tour of Belgium Independents ;1934 : 1st :fr:Bruxelles–Liège, Brussels-Liège (fr) : 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ouest ;1935 : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 2nd 1935 Tour of Flanders ;1936 : 1st Brussels Cycling Classic, Paris–Brussels : 1936 Tour de France, Tour de France ::1st Stages 6 & 18a : 3rd : 5th 1936 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th 1936 La Flèche Wallonne, La Flèche Wallonne ;1937 : 1st 1937 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 1937 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 1st 1937 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde : 1st Omloop Groo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Kijewski
Emil Kijewski (22 November 1911 - 23 January 1989) was a German professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his silver medal in the Elite race of the 1937 Road World Championships. Palmares ;1934 - Presto ;1935 : 1st, Rund um Köln : 1st, Sachsen GP : 10th, World Road Race Championship ;1936 : 3rd, National Road Race Championship ;1937 - Wanderer : 1st, Rund um Köln : 1st, Rund um Berlin : 1st, Stage 8, Tour de Suisse : 1st, Stage 10, Deutschland Tour : World Road Race Championship : 2nd, National Road Race Championship ;1938 - Wanderer : 1st, Stage 12, Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important Race stage, multi-stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but fro ... ;1950 - Dürkopp : 1st, Stage 1, Schwarzland Rundfahrt References 1911 births 1989 deaths German male cyclists Cyclists from Dortmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Egli
Paul Egli (18 August 1911 – 23 January 1997) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his silver and bronze medals in respectively the 1938 and the 1937 UCI Road World Championships. He was also the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1935 and 1936. Major results ;1932 : Amateur Cyclo-Cross Champion : World Amateur Road Race Championship ;1933 : World Amateur Road Race Champion ;1934 : Züri-Metzgete : Stage 3, Tour de Suisse : Stage 1, Critérium du Midi ;1935 : Road Race Champion : Züri-Metzgete : Stage 1, Tour of Nord-East-Spain ;1936 : Road Race Champion :Tour de France ::Winner stage 1 ::Wearing yellow jersey for one day : Tour de Suisse: :: Winner Stages 4a & 4b ;1937 : World Road Race Championship :Tour de Suisse: :: Winner Stage 3 ;1938 : World Road Race Championship ;1941 : Berner Rundfahrt ;1942 : Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete (Zürich German; ; ) was a European Classic cycle races, Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
The men's road race at the 1936 UCI Road World Championships was the tenth edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 6 September 1936 in Bern, Switzerland. The race was won by Antonin Magne Antonin Magne (; 15 February 1904 – 8 September 1983) was a French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934. He raced as a professional from 1927 to 1939 and then became a team manager. The French rider and then journalist, Jean Bo ... of France. Final classification References Men's Road Race UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race {{UCIMen-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther von Brauchitsch. Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath is dismi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
The UCI Road World Championships Elite Men's Road Race is a one-day event for professional cyclists that takes place annually. The winner is considered the ''World Cycling Champion'' (or ''World Road Cycling Champion'') and earns the right to wear the ''Rainbow Jersey'' for a full year in road race or stage events. The event is a single 'mass start' road race with the winner being the first across the line at the completion of the full race distance. The road race is contested by riders organized by national cycling teams as opposed to commercially sponsored or ''trade teams'', which is the standard in professional cycling. History The first professional World Cycling Championship took place in 1927 at the Nürburgring in Germany and was won by Alfredo Binda, of Italy. In recent years, the race is held towards the end of the European season, usually following the Vuelta a España. The elite men's race is usually won by riders on the UCI World Tour or its predecessors. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous administrative division, autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.* * * Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border. Denmark proper is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east.The island of Bornholm is offset to the east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. The Kingdom of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, has roughly List of islands of Denmark, 1,400 islands greater than in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Majerus
Jean Majerus (6February 191416June 1983) was a professional Luxembourgish cyclist from 1936 to 1947. Jean had a younger brother, Jacques Majerus, who was also a successful cyclist. Majerus was educated in Rumelange and then Esch-sur-Alzette, where he trained as a locksmith. He received his first bicycle at the age of seven. He took his first race win in 1933 at a race in Itzig. He was the Luxembourg national junior road race champion in 1934 and 1935, finishing ahead of his brother in the latter year. Majerus turned professional in 1936: that year he also made his Tour de France debut, however he was eliminated at the end of the 13th stage. Similarly, he failed to finish the world championship road race that season. His first great success was in the 1937 Tour de France, where Majerus won the first stage from Paris to Lille, staging a solo attack in Arras and finishing ahead of his compatriot Arsène Mersch. He remained in the yellow jersey for two days, but was later forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Speicher
Georges Speicher (; 8 June 1907 – 24 January 1978) was a French cyclist who won the 1933 Tour de France along with three stage wins, and the 1933 World Cycling Championship. After Speicher had won the 1933 Tour de France, he was initially not selected for the 1933 UCI Road World Championships. Only after a French cyclist that had been selected dropped out, Speicher was brought in as a replacement at the last notice, and won the race. Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year. Career achievements Major results ;1931 :Paris-Arras ;1932 :10th Tour de France: ;1933 : World road race championship :Tour de France: :: Winner overall classification ::Winner stages 8, 9 and 12 ;1934 :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 1, 5, 6, 13 and 20 ;1935 : national road race championship :Paris-Rennes :Paris-Angers :Tour de France: ::6th place overall classification ::Winner stage 13B ;1936 :Alger :Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
