Alfons Hermans

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Alfons Hermans (born April 4, 1937 in Sint-Lenaarts , Belgium ) is a former Belgian cyclist and national champion in cycling .

In 1953 he started cycling in the Belgian beginner class. As an amateur, he started for the WAC Hoboken club. In April 1956 he had his first major success with a win at the Grobbendonk Street Prize . Hermans was mainly active as a road cyclist . As a 19-year-old amateur , he achieved significant success by winning the Belgian road cycling championship in a 206-kilometer race around victory in the GDR Tour (with two stage wins) in 1956. He had thus qualified for participation in the UCI World Championships in Copenhagen . There he took a very good fifth place. After the World Cup he received his draft notice to the Belgian military and he did his military service in Belgium for 18 months. Before joining the Belgian cycling team Dr. Mann started as a professional driver , he made a name for himself this year as fourth in the three-country amateur stage race Internationale Friedensfahrt . He was able to wear the leader's yellow jersey for one day during the tour.

Hermans achieved his first place in a major professional race in 1959 in the French cycling classic Paris-Tours with 79th place. In 1960 he came to the top 10 for the first time in demanding events. At La Flèche Wallonne he came in sixth and in the Tour of Flanders , one of the monuments of cycling , he landed in tenth place. Hermans also competed in other races of the monuments of cycling. Most often he drove at Paris – Roubaix , where he was 23rd in 1960, 32nd in 1962, 45th in 1963 and eighth in 1965. At Liège – Bastogne – Liège he came in 1961 on the ninth, 1963 on the 13th, 1964 on the seventh and 1965 on the 17th place. He was able to win several criteria, such as the Dwars door Vlanderen race in 1965.

Throughout his career, Hermans was mainly a one-day races player . In addition to his participation in the GDR Tour in 1956, only the start of the Tour of Germany in 1962 is registered, in which he reached eighth place. Alfons Hermans does not appear in the results lists of major cycling events such as the Tour de France , Giro d'Italia or the road world championships . After his contract with the cycling team Dr. In 1964, Hermans changed the racing team every year. He played his last season as a professional driver in 1967 with the Belgian team Goldor-Gerka, without making a big appearance again. In 1968 he ended his career.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Cycling Week . No. 29/1956 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1956, p. 9 .
  2. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 239 .
personal data
SURNAME Hermans, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermans, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Sint-Lenaarts , Belgium