Jean Aerts
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Full name | Jean Aerts | ||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Laken, Belgium | 8 September 1907||||||||||||||||||
Died |
15 June 1992 84) Bruges, Belgium | (aged||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
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1929 1930 1931–1939 1940–1943 |
Elvish-Fontan Fontan-Wolber Alcyon individual | ||||||||||||||||||
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1935 World Cycling Champion 11 stages Tour de France | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Infobox last updated on 30 June 2008 |
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 UCI Road World Championships in Floreffe, Belgium.
In 1927, professional and amateur riders rode concurrently at the NĂĽrburgring in Germany and Aerts finished 5th, the highest ranked amateur.
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 achievements
- 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
External links
- Palmares (French)
- Jean Aerts profile at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Jean Aerts
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