Emile Aerts

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Emile Aerts, 1919

Emile Aerts (born April 3, 1892 in Laken , † April 9, 1953 in Brussels ) was a Belgian track cyclist .

Athletic career

Emile Aerts was one of the dominant six-day riders in the 1920s. He started with a total of 25, of which he was able to win seven. He drove together with well-known drivers such as Walter Rütt , Reggie McNamara and Piet van Kempen . Together with Rütt, he won the Berlin six-day race in 1925 .

The six-day race in Brussels in 1915 took place on the open Karreveld cycle track . Because of the war, they didn't drive around the clock, but only from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. until it got dark. On the fourth day, Aerts, who drove in a team with his brother François , jumped on the track and knocked over his Brussels arch rival Jozef Van Bever . He suffered a broken collarbone and had to be hospitalized. Van Bever and Cyrille Van Hauwaert were neutralized, Van Bever started again the next day and the duo won. The Aerts brothers did not run again. It is not known whether this decision was voluntary. In 1929 he retired from cycling.

Familiar

Emile Aerts was an uncle of the cyclist Jean Aerts .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This six-day race was not initially recognized as such, but only afterwards.
  2. ↑ Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen. De Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 254
  3. ↑ Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Aerts, Emile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheets
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1953
Place of death Brussels