Constant Huret

Constant Huret (1903)

Advertising poster for the Simpson Lever company , with Huret in third position

Constant Huret (born January 26, 1870 in Ressons-le-Long , † September 18, 1951 in Paris ) was a French cyclist .

Before his career as a cyclist, Constant Huret first learned the trade of a baker, which earned him the nickname le Boulanger as a racing driver ; later it was called le grand Constant . In 1893, at the age of 23, he turned professional .

Huret won the first 24-hour race on German soil, which was held in September 1898 on the Berlin-Halensee cycle track. In 1899 Huret won the Bordeaux – Paris race at a time that could not be beaten for 34 years. The following year he was stayer world champion. He won the Bol d'Or 24-hour race in Paris four times . He also set several world records. In 1902, Huret had a training accident at the Parc des Princes cycling track in Paris when he collided with driver Jimmy Michael and suffered a severe lower leg injury (broken debris). As a result, Huret had to give up active cycling.

After the end of his cycling career, Constant Huret married - apparently in his second marriage - a woman 28 years his junior and had three children. He settled in Paris, rented cars and worked as a chauffeur. He died at the age of 81.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted Huret for his advertising poster “La Chaîne Simpson”.

literature

• Wheel world. Sports album. A cycling yearbook. 2nd year, 1903, ZDB ID 749618-7 .

Web links

• Constant Huret in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Homepage of Huret's birthplace
• http://lepetitbraquet.free.fr/chron65_constant-huret.html (link not available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Constant Huret. In: lepetitbraquet.fr. Retrieved April 28, 2015 (French). 
2. ↑ Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 27 .
3. ↑ Huret, Constant. In: cycling4fans.de. Retrieved April 28, 2015 .