Antoine Mazairac
Antonius Hendrikus "Antoine" Mazairac (born May 24, 1901 in Roosendaal , † September 1, 1966 in Dortmund ) was a Dutch cyclist and world champion aviator from 1929.
Antoine Mazairac only found cycling at the age of 16, when he was still a schoolboy and watched the races on the “Raayberg” cycle track in Bergen op Zoom . In 1921 he was the first Dutch pilot on the track . He was able to repeat this success five times as an amateur. Internationally, Mazairac was twice vice world champion and once world championship third. He also won the silver medal over 1000 meters at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam .
In 1929 Mazairac fell so badly that he wanted to give up cycling. He then started for the last time in world championships and was able to win the title.
After completing his career, Mazairac began an apprenticeship in a garage in Antwerp , where he cycled the 40-kilometer route from Bergen op Zoom every day. For several years he worked in administration in his home parish. Since this job wasn't what he was looking for, he later started his own garage in his hometown.
Mazairac had a serious crash at the age of 65 in a “gentleman race” in Dortmund and died as a result.
Web links
- Antoine Mazairac in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Antoine Mazairac in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 40/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 2 .
1893 Arthur A. Zimmerman | 1894 August Lehr | 1895 Jaap Eden | 1896 Harry Reynolds | 1897 Edwin Schrader | 1898 Paul Albert | 1899 Thomas Summersgill | 1900 Alphonse Didier-Nauts | 1901 Émile Maitrot | 1902 Charles Piard | 1903 Arthur L. Reed | 1904 Marcus Hurley | 1905 Jimmy S. Benyon | 1906 Francesco Verri | 1907 Jean Devoissoux | 1908 Victor Johnson | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 William Bailey | 1912 Donald McDougall | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Maurice Peeters | 1921 Henry Brask Andersen | 1922 Thomas Johnson | 1923, 1924 Lucien Michard | 1925 Jaap Meijer | 1926 Avanti Martinetti | 1927 Mathias Engel | 1928 Willy Falck Hansen | 1929 Antoine Mazairac | 1930 Louis Gérardin | 1931 Helge Harder | 1932 Albert Richter | 1933 Jacobus van Egmond | 1934 Benedetto Pola | 1935 Toni Merkens | 1936 Arie van Vliet | 1937, 1938 Jef van de Vijver | 1939 Jan Derksen | 1940–1945 not held | 1946 Oscar Plattner ; | 1947 Reginald Harris | 1948 Mario Ghella | 1949 Sydney Patterson | 1950 Maurice Verdeun | 1951, 1952 Enzo Sacchi | 1953 Marino Morettini | 1954 Cyril Peacock | 1955 Giuseppe Ogna | 1956, 1957 Michel Rousseau | 1958, 1959 Valentino Gasparella | 1960 Sante Gaiardoni | 1961, 1962 Sergio Bianchetto | 1963 Patrick Sercu | 1964 Pierre Trentin | 1965 Omar Pchakadze | 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 Daniel Morelon | 1968 Luigi Borghetti | 1972 not held | 1974, 1978 Anton Tkáč | 1976 not held | 1977 Jürgen Geschke | 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987 Lutz Heßlich | 1980 not held | 1981, 1982 Sergei Kopylov | 1984 not held | 1986 Michael Huebner | 1988 not held | 1989, 1990 Bill Huck | 1991 Jens Fiedler
(Afterwards the separation between amateurs and professionals was lifted. Further results under world champion in sprint )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazairac, Antoine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mazairac, Antonius (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roosendaal , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1966 |
| Place of death | Dortmund , Germany |