Jean Aerts
 Aerts during the1929 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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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Medal record
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Jean Aerts(8 September 1907 – 15 June 1992) was a Belgianroad bicycle racerwho specialized as asprinter.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 professionalUCI Road World ChampionshipsinFloreffe,Belgium.[1]
In 1927 professional and amateur riders rode concurrently at theNürburgringin Germany and Aerts finished 5th, the highest ranked amateur. He also competed inthree eventsat the1928 Summer Olympics.[2]
Although he lacked climbing ability for major tours, he used his sprinting ability to win 11 stages of theTour de France,including six in 1933.[3]
Major results
[edit]Amateur
[edit]- 1926
- 2nd
National Road Championships,Amateur Road Race - 1927
- UCI Road World Championships
- 1st
Amateur Road Race - 5thMen's Road Race
- 1st
- 1st
National Road Championships,Amateur Road Race - 1st La Haye-Bruxelles
- 1st GP Egg-Tiberghien
- 1928
- 1stNational Road Championships,Amateur Road Race
- 3rd
UCI Road World Championships,Amateur Road Race
Professional
[edit]- 1929
- 2nd OverallVolta a Catalunya
- Winner stages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7
- 1st Tour du Sud-Ouest
- 1st Villeneuve sur Lot
- 1st Circuit de la Chalosse
- 6thParis–Roubaix
- 7thParis–Tours
- 1930
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 6
- 1st GP du Marthonnais
- 2nd GP de la Tribune Républicaine
- 3rd OverallTour of the Basque Country
- 6thParis–Roubaix
- 7thParis–Tours
- 8thParis–Brussels
- 8thGP Wolber
- 1931
- 1stParis–Brussels
- 1st Circuit du Midi
- 1st Wanze
- 3rdTour of Flanders
- 1932
- Tour de France
- 13th place Overall classification
- Winner stage 1
- 1st Prix Goullet-Fogler (with Omer De Bruycker)
- 1st Grand Critérium d'Europe
- 2nd Paris-Belfort
- 2nd Circuit du Morbihan
- 4thParis–Roubaix
- 4thTour of Flanders
- 5thParis–Brussels
- 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 stageParis–Nice
- 1934
- 1 stageTour de Suisse
- 1st Paris - Boulogne-sur-Mer
- 1st Critérium de Bâle
- 1935
- 1stRoad race,UCI World Championships
- Tour de France
- Winner stages 4, 8, 10 and 19
- 29th place overall classification
- 1st Paris - Vichy
- 1st Zürich Criterium
- 3rdParis–Roubaix
- 1936
- 1stNational Road Championships,Road Race
- 1st Critérium de Pau
- 1937
- 1st London Criterium
Track
[edit]- 1936
- 1st Brussels (Derny)
- 2ndSix Days of London(withAlbert Buysse)
- 3rdSix Days of Brussels(withAdolf Schön)
- 1937
- 1stSix Days of Brussels(withOmer De Bruycker)
- 1stSix Days of Paris(withOmer De Bruycker)
- 1941
- 1stNational ChampionshipsStayers
- 1942
- 1stNational ChampionshipsStayers
- 1943
- 3rd
National ChampionshipsStayers
References
[edit]- ^"Jean Aerts".FirstCycling.com.2023.
- ^"Jean Aerts Olympic Results".sports-reference.com.Archived fromthe originalon 5 November 2013.Retrieved8 June2014.
- ^"Palmarès de Jean Aerts (Bel)".Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu(in French).Retrieved31 December2021.
External links
[edit]- "Palmares"(in French). Archived from the original on 15 June 2007.Retrieved11 June2007.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Jean AertsatCycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Jean Aerts
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