André Noyelle

André Noyelle (born November 29, 1931 in Ieper , Belgium ; † February 4, 2003 in Poperinge , Belgium) was a Belgian cyclist .

Noyelle was a professional from 1953 to 1966 and was able to achieve a total of 48 victories during that time. His greatest successes, however, date before his professional career. In 1952 he was runner-up at the World Championships for Amateurs and won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in the same year both with the team and in the individual road race. In June 1966 he ended his sporting career.

Until Greg van Avermaet's success in 2016, Noyelle was the only Belgian who managed to win a gold medal in an Olympic single road race. Because of this success, he was voted Belgian Sportsman of the Year and awarded the Trophée Nationale du Mérite Sportive , which can only be received once in a lifetime.

Individual evidence

^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 23/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 9 .
↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 312.

Web links

André Noyelle in the Radsportseiten.net database

André Noyelle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Noyelle, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ieper , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	February 4, 2003
Place of death	Poperinge , Belgium

[1] Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 23/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 9 .

[2] Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 312.