Jean Aerts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Competitor for .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
|||
| Road bicycle racing | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1935 Floreffe | Elite Men's Road Race | |
| Gold | 1927 Nürburgring | Amateur's Road Race | |
Jean Aerts (Laken, 8 September 1907 – Bruges, 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 World Cycling Championship in Floreffe, Belgium.
In 1927, professional and amateur riders rode concurrently at the Nürburgring in Germany and Aerts finished 5th, the highest ranked amateur.
Although he lacked climbing ability for major tours, he used his sprint to win 11 stages of the Tour de France, including six in 1933.
[edit] Major achievements
- 1927
- 1st (Gold), World Cycling Championships Road Race (Amateur)
- 1st, Belgium National Road Race Championship (Amateur)
- 1928
- 1st, Belgium National Road Race Championship (Amateur)
- 1929
- Volta a Catalunya
- Winner stages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7
- 1930
- 1st, 1 stage, Tour de France
- 1931
- 1st, Paris-Brussels
- 1932
- 13th, Overall, Tour de France
- 1st, 1 stage
- 1933
- 1st, Overall, Tour of Belgium
- Winner stages 2, 3 and 5
- 9th, Overall, Tour de France
- Winner stages 4, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 21
- 1st, 1 stage, Paris-Nice
- 1934
- 1st, 1 stage, Tour de Suisse
- 1935
- 1st (Gold), World Cycling Championships Road Race
- 29th, Overall, Tour de France
- Winner stages 4, 8, 10 and 19
- 1936
- 1st, Belgium National Road Race Championship
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Karel Kaers |
World Road Racing Champion 1935 |
Succeeded by Antonin Magne |
This biographical article relating to Belgian cycling is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
