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.[1]
 Aerts during the 1929 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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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.[2]
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.[3]
Major results
editAmateur
edit- 1926
- 2nd
National Road Championships, Amateur Road Race - 1927
- UCI Road World Championships
- 1st
Amateur Road Race - 5th Men's Road Race
- 1st
- 1st
National Road Championships, Amateur Road Race - 1st La Haye-Bruxelles
- 1st GP Egg-Tiberghien
- 1928
- 1st National Road Championships, Amateur Road Race
- 3rd
UCI Road World Championships, Amateur Road Race
Professional
edit- 1929
- 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya
- Winner stages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7
- 1st Tour du Sud-Ouest
- 1st Villeneuve sur Lot
- 1st Circuit de la Chalosse
- 6th Paris–Roubaix
- 7th Paris–Tours
- 1930
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 6
- 1st GP du Marthonnais
- 2nd GP de la Tribune Républicaine
- 3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 6th Paris–Roubaix
- 7th Paris–Tours
- 8th Paris–Brussels
- 8th GP Wolber
- 1931
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st Circuit du Midi
- 1st Wanze
- 3rd Tour 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
- 4th Paris–Roubaix
- 4th Tour of Flanders
- 5th Paris–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 stage Paris–Nice
- 1934
- 1 stage Tour de Suisse
- 1st Paris - Boulogne-sur-Mer
- 1st Critérium de Bâle
- 1935
- 1st Road race, UCI World Championships
- Tour de France
- Winner stages 4, 8, 10 and 19
- 29th place overall classification
- 1st Paris - Vichy
- 1st Zürich Criterium
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 1936
- 1st National Road Championships, Road Race
- 1st Critérium de Pau
- 1937
- 1st London Criterium
Track
edit- 1936
- 1st Brussels (Derny)
- 2nd Six Days of London (with Albert Buysse)
- 3rd Six Days of Brussels (with Adolf Schön)
- 1937
- 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Omer De Bruycker)
- 1st Six Days of Paris (with Omer De Bruycker)
- 1941
- 1st National Championships Stayers
- 1942
- 1st National Championships Stayers
- 1943
- 3rd
National Championships Stayers
References
edit- ^ "Jean Aerts". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
- ^ "Jean Aerts Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "Palmarès de Jean Aerts (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
External links
edit- "Palmares" (in French). Archived from the original on 15 June 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Jean Aerts at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Official Tour de France results for Jean Aerts Archived 26 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine
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