Alfred Goullet

Alfred "Alf" Goullet (born April 8, 1891 in Australia ; † March 11, 1995 in Toms River , New Jersey ) was an Australian and later American cyclist who was known as the "king" of the six-day races before and after the First World War the USA.

In 1909 Alfred Goullet was the Australian sprint champion . The following year he went to the USA and settled in Newark , New Jersey , where he also competed in his first races on American soil. At the Newark Velodrome in August 1920 he set a world record over 50 miles with 1 hour, 49 minutes and 8 seconds. By 1925 he drove 400 races on three continents, including 29 six-day races, of which he won 15, eight of them in Madison Square Garden and the first six-day race in Paris , together with Joe Fogler . In 1920, he and the cyclists Frank Kramer and Reggie McNamara were among the top earners of the sport in the USA and also surpassed the popular baseball player Babe Ruth . In addition, he set six world records in the course of his career, including a highly regarded record over a mile (1.51 min) on July 1, 1912 in Salt Lake City .

In 1916, Goullet became a US citizen. In 1923 he resigned from active cycling after he had married shortly before. He became an insurance broker and ran an ice rink in Wayne Township . In 1967 he was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame . After 75 years he traveled back to Australia for the first time, where he was inducted into the Australian Sports Hall of Fame and in 1988 also into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame . Alfred Goullet died in a retirement home at the age of 103.

Honors

In 2016 he was posthumously inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame .

Web links

Alfred Goullet in the database of Radsportseiten.net
The Grand Game on jimlangley.net

Individual evidence

^ Peter Joffre Nye: The Six-Days Bicycle Races . Van der Plas Publications / Cycle Publishing, San Francisco 2006, ISBN 1-892495-49-X , p. 47 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Goullet, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goullet, Alf (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Australia
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1995
Place of death	Toms River , New Jersey

[1] Peter Joffre Nye: The Six-Days Bicycle Races . Van der Plas Publications / Cycle Publishing, San Francisco 2006, ISBN 1-892495-49-X , p. 47 (English).