André Auffray

André Auffray

André Auffray 1910
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Date of birth	September 2, 1884
date of death	3rd November 1953
nation	France
discipline	Track cycling, road cycling
Most important successes
1908: Olympic champion in tandem
Last updated: January 19, 2020

André Auffray (born September 2, 1884 in Puteaux , Hauts-de-Seine , † November 3, 1953 in Paris ) was a French cyclist who successfully took part in several distances in track cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London .

Career

In 1907 won Auffray in the amateurs the sprint competition of the famous Grand Prix de Paris and was second in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Sprint . As an amateur, he started for the Vélo Club de Levallois in Levallois-Perret .

At the Olympic competitions in 1908, André Auffray and his partner Maurice Schilles won the gold medal over 2000 m in the tandem race , which was generally surprising, because both were individually excellent sprinters, but never before competed together. This gold medal represented the only first place in a cycling competition for the French nation, although with 23 participants behind the 36 athletes of the outstanding cycling nation of these games, Great Britain (nine medals, five of them gold), they were the second most successful nation. In addition, Auffray won the bronze medal in the race over the 5000 m behind his partner Schilles and the winner Benjamin Jones . With the entire French team, he was eliminated from the team pursuit in the preliminary round.

In 1908 and 1909, Auffray was third at the Grand Prix de Paris and two years later switched to the professional camp. In 1911 he won the national championship with the amateurs and then appeared as a professional driver as an advertising medium for Peugeot , as you can see from the frequently displayed picture of him. In the professional rider camp, he won the Prix ​​Barden in Paris, one of the most important sprint tournaments at the time.

Web links

• André Auffray in the Radsportseiten.net database
• André Auffray in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to other information May 13, 1884 in Saumur , Maine-et-Loire department , see André Auffray in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), cf. http://www.freebase.com/view/en/andre_auffray u. The Golden Book of the Olympic Games - Erich Kamper & Bill Mallon (Vallardi & Associati) - 1992 - ISBN 88-85202-35-7
2. ↑ This club still exists today, see: Sport Levallois - VCL (Vélo Club de Levallois) ( Memento from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Bill Mallon, Ian Buchanan: Results of the Early Modern Olympics: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary (Olympic Games: Results of the Early Modern Olympics), Mcfarland & Co Inc. 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864- 0598-5 , p. 135. A protest by the third place winners , Colin Brooks and Walter Isaacs , that the French had cut their way by "swinging" from their original line was thrown out. Only two other protests saw the entire cycling competitions.
4. ^ Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 32 (French).