Jean-Pierre Monseré

Jean-Pierre Monseré

Personal information
Full name	Jean-Pierre Monseré
Nickname	Jempi Monseré
Born	(1948-09-08)8 September 1948 Roeselare, Belgium
Died	15 March 1971(1971-03-15) (aged 22) Lille, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team
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Major wins
1970 World Road Race Championship
Medal record Representing Belgium Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 1970 Leicester World professional road race 1969 Zolder Amateur's Road Race

Jean-Pierre "Jempi" Monseré (8 September 1948 – 15 March 1971) was a Belgian road racing cyclist who died while champion of the world.

Career

Monseré was a talented amateur who finished in 6th place in the individual road race at the 1968 Summer Olympics, before turning professional for Flandria in 1969. He won the Giro di Lombardia that year. A year later he became the Belgian track omnium champion and on 16 August 1970 he won the world championship in Leicester, England. He was the second-youngest world champion after another Belgian, Karel Kaers. In 1971 he again became Belgian champion, this time track madison.

On 15 March 1971, Monseré was riding the Grote Jaarmarktprijs in Retie. On the road from Lille to Gierle a car driven onto the course collided with him and he died on the spot. A monument now stands at the spot. In a cruel twist of fate, in 1976 Monseré's seven-year-old son, Giovanni, died after a collision with a car, while riding his racing bike, given to him on his first communion by another world champion, Freddy Maertens.

Jean-Pierre Monseré is remembered each September with a memorial cycle trophy, the Grote Herdenkingsprijs Monseré, organized by the Retiese Wielerclub 'De Zonnestraal'. Jempi Monseré's medals are in the Belgian national cycle museum in Roeselare.

Palmarès

1968

Belgium national road race for militaries

1968 Olympic Games: 6th place

1969

Giro di Lombardia

1970

World Road Race Championships

Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)

1971

Vuelta a Andalucía

See also

• Curse of the rainbow jersey
• List of professional cyclists who died during a race

External links

• Biographical information at Cycling Hall of Fame
• Jean-Pierre Monseré at Cycling Archives