Alfred Grenda

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Alfred Grenda (1912)

Alfred Francis Grenda (born September 15, 1889 in Launceston , † May 30, 1977 in Paradise ) was an Australian track cyclist .

Alfred Grenda was one of eight children of his parents of German origin. He had four brothers who were also all very athletic; Alfred Grenda was the only one of them who did cycling . He won his first race in 1907 when he commented that cycling was easier than chopping wood.

Alfred Grenda has been champion of Tasmania and various cycling disciplines seven times. 1911 occupied Grenda second place in the six-day race from Sydney . He then went to the United States and spent the rest of his life there. He started in a total of 37 six-day races in North America, of which he was able to win eight. Among his partners were Alfred Goullet , Oscar Egg and Reggie McNamara . The Dutch six-day star Piet van Kempen said of Grenda that he was the “best six-day driver of all time”.

At the UCI Track World Championships in Newark in 1912 , Grenda was runner-up in the sprint , behind the American cycling idol Frank Kramer . He was also tandem world champion four times . He also set three world records.

After finishing his cycling career in the autumn of 1928, he first bought an orange grove, and later Grenda ran a hotel in New York . In 1930 he became a citizen of the United States of America.

He comes from a family of cyclists: his nephew is Ronald Grenda , who was also successful as a six-day cyclist , whose son Michael Grenda won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and whose grandson Ben Grenda has already achieved initial successes as a racing cyclist could.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alexander Trapeznik: Grenda, Albert Francis (1889–1977). Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Center of Biography, Australian National University, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ Peter Joffre Nye: The Six-Days Bicycle Races . Van der Plas Publications / Cycle Publishing, San Francisco 2006, ISBN 1-892495-49-X , p. 52 (English).
  3. ↑ utas.edu.au These titles are not included in the official UCI lists.
  4. ↑ Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 24 .
  5. ↑ Albert Fancis Grenda. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .

literature

  • Roger de Maertelaere: De Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen. De Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 213

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personal data
SURNAME Grenda, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grenda, Alfred Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Launceston
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1977
Place of death Paradise