Bruno Walrave

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Bruno Walrave, 2015
Bruno Walrave at the Standing European Championship in Alkmaar, 2008
Bruno Walrave (right) with Ehrenfried Rudolph , 1970

Bruno Nils Olaf Walrave (born February 22, 1939 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch cyclist and pacemaker .

Career

From 1956 on, Bruno Walrave was active as a pacemaker in standing races and derny races . With 15 titles as world champion of the stayers , he is the most successful pacemaker worldwide to date.

After the 2008/2009 winter season, Walrave resigned from active sports. The 70th birthday of Bruno Walrave 22 February 2009 was the last day of the six-day race of Hasselt together. Walrave used this occasion to end his active career.

Walrave, who still holds positions in various national and international sports associations to represent the rights of professional athletes, for example in the Dutch cycling association Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU) and the world cycling association Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) , is characterized by extensive legal knowledge of Area of ​​professional sports. As early as 1974, he filed a lawsuit in Utrecht, the Netherlands, for free movement of workers, attacking the UCI, the KNWU and the Spanish cycling association Federacion Espanola Ciclismo (Spanish Cycling Federation). At the track cycling world championships held in San Sebastián , Spain in 1973 , an amendment to the international regulations had been decided, according to which the pacemaker in standing races had to have the same nationality as his stayer. Among other things, this regulation prohibited both him and the Dutch pacemaker Norbert Koch from starting with German sticks. Walrave and Koch saw their right to freely exercise their activities within the European Economic Community (EEC) as a result and sued this provision of the UCI.

By the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of December 12, 1974 in the case 36-74 to the detriment of Walrave and Koch, that among others was also the basis of the so-called " Bosman decision " from 1995, it became so for Walrave made impossible to defend the world championship title he won in 1971 and 1972 together with the amateur rider from Nuremberg, Horst Gnas .

Walrave works for the Dutch company "Six Day Management" in the implementation of the six-day races in Amsterdam , Rotterdam and Tilburg .

Successes as a pacemaker (excerpt)

15 world championships

9 World Championships for Amateur Stayers

  • 1969 - World champion of amateur stayers with Albertus Boom / Netherlands
  • 1971 - World champion of amateur stayers with Horst Gnas / Germany
  • 1972 - World champion of amateur stayers with Horst Gnas / Germany
  • 1975 - World champion of amateur stayers with Gaby Minneboo / Netherlands
  • 1976 - World champion of amateur stayers with Gaby Minneboo / Netherlands
  • 1977 - World champion of amateur stayers with Gaby Minneboo / Netherlands
  • 1980 - World champion of amateur stayers with Gaby Minneboo / Netherlands
  • 1982 - World champion of amateur stayers with Gaby Minneboo / Netherlands
  • 1984 - World champion of amateur stayers with Jan de Nijs / Netherlands

5 world championships for professional stayers

  • 1970 - World champion of professional stayers with Ehrenfried Rudolph / Germany
  • 1977 - World champion of professional stayers with Cees Stam / Netherlands
  • 1981 - World champion of professional stayers with René Kos / Netherlands
  • 1988 - World champion of professional stayers with Danny Clark / Australia
  • 1991 - World champion of professional stayers with Danny Clark / Australia

1 World Championship (open)

6 European championships

3 Standing European Championships (professionals)

  • 1976 - Standing European Champion with Cees Stam / Netherlands in Dortmund
  • 1988 - Standing European Champion with Danny Clark / Australia in Copenhagen
  • 1989 - Standing European Champion with Torsten Rellensmann / Germany in Dortmund

1 Standing European Championship (open)

1 Derny European Championship (professionals)

  • 1989 - Derny European Champion with Danny Clark / Australia in Gent

1 Derny European Championship (open)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel from January 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of December 12, 1974 in the case 36-74
personal data
SURNAME Walrave, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walrave, Bruno Nils Olaf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist and pacemaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam