Jean Aerts
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| Full name | Jean Aerts | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 September 1907 Laken, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 June 1992 (aged 84) Bruges, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1929 | Elvish-Fontan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 | Fontan-Wolber | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1931–1939 | Alcyon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940–1943 | individual | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1935 World Cycling Champion 11 stages Tour de France | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jean Aerts (8 September 1907 – 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships. In 1935, Aerts captured first place and the gold medal at the professional UCI Road World Championships in Floreffe, Belgium.
In 1927 professional and amateur riders rode concurrently at the Nürburgring in Germany and Aerts finished 5th, the highest ranked amateur. He also competed in three events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1]
Although he lacked climbing ability for major tours, he used his sprinting ability to win 11 stages of the Tour de France, including six in 1933.
Major results
- 1927
- World Cycling Championships Road Race (Amateur)
Belgium National Road Race Championship (Amateur)- 1928
- Belgium National Road Race Championship (Amateur)
- 1929
- Volta a Catalunya
- Winner stages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7
- 2nd place overall classification
- Tour du Sud-Ouest
- 1930
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 6
- 1931
- Paris–Brussels
- 1932
- Tour de France
- 13th place Overall classification
- Winner stage 1
- 1933
- Tour of Belgium:
- Overall winner
- Winner stages 2, 3 and 5
- Tour de France
- 9th place Overall classification
- Winner stages 4, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 21
- 1 stage Paris–Nice
- 1934
- 1 stage Tour de Suisse
- Paris - Boulogne-sur-Mer
- 1935
- World Cycling Championships Road Race
- Tour de France
- Winner stages 4, 8, 10 and 19
- 29th place overall classification
- Paris - Vichy
- 1936
- Belgium National Road Race Championship
- 1937
- Six days of Brussels (with Omer De Bruycker)
- Six days of Paris (with Omer De Bruycker)
- 1941
- Belgium national track stayers championships
- 1942
- Belgium national track stayers championships
References
- ^ "Jean Aerts Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
External links
- Palmares Template:Fr icon
- Jean Aerts at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Official Tour de France results for Jean Aerts
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