Edmond Jacquelin

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Edmond Jacquelin (1900), after winning the Grand Prix de Paris

Edmond Jacquelin (born March 31, 1875 in Santenay , † June 29, 1928 in Paris ) was a French cyclist .

Cycling career

Edmond Jacquelin began his racing career in 1893. In the following years he was one of the most successful pilots (sprinters) in the world. In 1900 he won the Grand Prix de Paris , the French and the world championships .

The high point of Jacqueline's sporting career was the victory over the US sprinter champion Major Taylor on the newly built Parc des Princes velodrome on May 16, 1901. During his career, he won more than thirty sprint competitions advertised as Grand Prix, mostly in France. Outside his home while the victories towered the Grand Prix of Germany in 1900 and 1901 and in Berlin in 1898 out. He won the prestigious Milan Grand Prix in its early years in 1895.

Jacquelin worked as a racing driver until 1914, most recently in six-day races .

Private

At the peak of his success, Jacquelin, known as the “old lion”, led a luxurious lifestyle, paraded through the Bois de Boulogne in a carriage with black horses and had a box in the Comédie-Française . After retiring from cycling, he invented the street sweeper , actually a baker by profession . He completely wasted his great fortune, which he had acquired through cycling, so that he finally had to work as a day laborer in a shipyard. Edmond Jacquelin died in Paris in 1928 of a lung disease.

His brother, the younger Lucien Jacquelin, was also a track sprinter.

literature

  • Pascal Sergent: Edmond Jacquelin. La vie du champion le plus populaire de tous les temps. l'Harmattan, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-296-05146-1 .
  • Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume. Short biographies. Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937.
  • Wheel world. Sports album. A cycling yearbook. 2nd year, 1903, ZDB ID 749618-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 107, footnote no. 158.
  2. Illustrated cycling sport . 1928, p. 837.
  3. Harry Van den Bremt, Joel Godaert, Paul De Keyser: Velo Gotha . Velo Travel Marketing, Mechelen 2005, ISBN 90-804763-3-1 , p. 272 (English).

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