Daniel Morelon

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Daniel Morelon (born July 24, 1944 in Bourg-en-Bresse ) is a former French track cyclist . He won five medals in four Olympics, including three gold.

Career as an active athlete

He began cycling in 1961 and that year came third in the finals of the French beginner class ( Premier Pas Dunlop ). Morelon won his first international medals in 1963 when he won bronze in the track sprint at the Mediterranean Games and rode to silver on a tandem with Pierre Trentin . In 1964 Morelon was the first French champion in the track sprint. At the rail world championships , he won silver. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Morelon won bronze in the sprint. With the tandem, Morelon and Trentin were eliminated in the hope runs.

In 1965 Morelon won the French team championship in track sprint and was third in the individual competition at the world championships. 1966 Morelon was French champion in the sprint in the individual and in the team classification; by 1977, eleven more titles followed in the individual ranking and seven in the team ranking. At the 1966 World Championships, he won the sprint and tandem titles. Gold in the track sprint and silver in the tandem followed in 1967.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Morelon and Trentin were virtually unbeatable in the track competitions. Morelon won the sprint, Trentin won bronze here, but won the 1000-meter time trial , and together they both achieved their second gold medal on the tandem. In the next three years Morelon won the world championship title three times in sprint and three times world championship bronze in tandem, with Gérard Quintyn instead of Trentin in 1970 as the second man. At the 1972 Olympic Games , Trentin and Morelon were only fourth with the tandem, while Morelon was able to repeat his Olympic victory from 1968 in the sprint.

After Morelon became world champion again in 1973 and 1975, he reached the sprint finals at the 1976 Olympic Games for the third time in a row. The Czechoslovak Anton Tkáč won the first race, Morelon the second. Tkáč won the third run and Morelon received silver. Morelon won nearly all of the Sprint Grand Prix; at the Grand Prix Copenhagen he won eight times between 1964 and 1975. In 1970 he won the GDR Grand Prix in the sprint.

In 1977 Morelon won his twelfth championship title in the sprint and for the sixth time the Grand Prix de Paris in the sprint. He then ended his active career and became the national coach of the French sprinters. In the 1980 season, Morelon rode his bike again, and in May 1980 he received his professional license. Once again he became French sprint champion, and at the world championship he won two medals, silver in the keirin and bronze in the sprint.

Success as a trainer

As a trainer, Morelon looked after the French track sprinters from 1978; he looked after Félicia Ballanger in her three Olympic victories , and together with Gérard Quintyn he led the French men around Florian Rousseau , Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant to the top of the world. In addition to the Olympic victories, the athletes supervised by Morelon also achieved 15 world championship titles. In addition to the numerous sporting successes, Morelon was also honored by the French state; he is Chevalier of the French Order of Merit and the Legion of Honor .

From 2007 to 2012 Morelon looked after the Chinese track sprinter team.

Palmares

Olympic games

  • 1964 : bronze sprint
  • 1968 : Gold Sprint, Gold Tandem with Pierre Trentin
  • 1972 : Gold Sprint
  • 1976 : Silver Sprint

World championships

  • sprint
    • Gold: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975
    • Silver: 1964
    • Bronze: 1965, 1980 (1980 as a professional)
  • tandem
    • Gold: 1966 with Trentin
    • Silver: 1967 with Trentin
    • Bronze: 1969 with Trentin, 1970 with Gérard Quintyn, 1971 with Trentin
  • Keirin
    • Silver: 1980 (as a professional)

Further

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fédération Française de Cyclisme (Ed.): La France Cycliste . Paris July 23, 1970, p. 5 (French).
  2. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. a .: Velo . Brussels 1978, p. 252 .
  3. ↑ Chinadaily.com: "Chinese keep rising on the world cycling stage" accessed on March 26, 2010 (English)
  4. ↑ Benoît Vétu à la Tête de l'equipe nationale de Chine ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
  • Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Hervé Dauchy: Mondial Encyclopedie Cyclisme . Volume 3: G - P . de Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, ISBN 90-74128-73-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Morelon, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourg-en-Bresse