André Aumerle
André Aumerle (born February 16, 1907 in Vélizy-Villacoublay , † October 24, 1990 in Créteil ) was a French cyclist and national champion in cycling .
Athletic career
He had his first significant successes as an amateur with victories in the road races Paris - Reims and Paris - Troyes in 1926, and in 1929 at Paris - Rouen . A year later he won one of the most traditional one-day races for French amateurs with the Paris- Évreux race . In the summer of that year he won the French road racing championship. In 1928 the French federation nominated him for the Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam , where he was classified eighth in the road race and seventh in the team classification. In the team pursuit , he finished fourth with his team. A little later he was fifth at the UCI Road World Championships . In 1929 he was again fifth at the World Cup. He started for the Velo Club de Levallois .
In 1930 he switched to the professional driver's camp and drove in his new Thomann-Dunlop team at the side of Georges Speicher .
Web links
- André Aumerle in the Radsportseiten.net database
- André Aumerle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 33 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aumerle, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vélizy-Villacoublay |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1990 |
| Place of death | Créteil |