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Jean Aerts

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Jean Aerts
Aerts during the1929 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameJean Aerts
Born(1907-09-08)8 September 1907
Laken,Belgium
Died15 June 1992(1992-06-15)(aged 84)
Bruges,Belgium
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1929Elvish-Fontan
1930Fontan-Wolber
1931–1939Alcyon
1940–1943individual
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
12 individual stages (1930,1932,1933,1935)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships(1935)
Paris-Brussels(1931)
Medal record
RepresentingBelgium
Men'sroad bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1935 Floreffe Elite Men's Road Race
Gold medal – first place 1927 Nürburgring Amateur's Road Race
Bronze medal – third place 1928 Budapest Amateur's Road Race

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]

Aerts during1934 Paris-Tours

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

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Amateur

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1926
2ndNational Road Championships,Amateur Road Race
1927
UCI Road World Championships
1stAmateur Road Race
5thMen's Road Race
1stNational Road Championships,Amateur Road Race
1st La Haye-Bruxelles
1st GP Egg-Tiberghien
1928
1stNational Road Championships,Amateur Road Race
3rdUCI Road World Championships,Amateur Road Race

Professional

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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

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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
3rdNational ChampionshipsStayers

References

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  1. ^"Jean Aerts".FirstCycling.2023.
  2. ^"Jean Aerts Olympic Results".sports-reference.Archived fromthe originalon 5 November 2013.Retrieved8 June2014.
  3. ^"Palmarès de Jean Aerts (Bel)".Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu(in French).Retrieved31 December2021.
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