Felicien Van Ingelghem

Felicien Van Ingelghem (right) in conversation with Martin Wierstra (left) at the 1959 World Railroad Championships in Amsterdam

Felicien Van Ingelghem (* around 1900; † August 9, 1963 in Amsterdam ) was a Belgian racing cyclist and pacemaker .

Until he was 21, Felicien Van Ingelghem competed in cycling himself, but without much success. Then he became a pacemaker. At the UCI track world championships in Amsterdam in 1938 he caused a serious accident in which he himself as well as the Belgian August Meuleman and the Luxembourgish Josy Kraus were seriously injured. After that he was originally supposed to be banned for life. However, the suspension was shortened to one year, but Van Ingelghem was fined 2000 gold francs.

Van Ingelghem had his greatest successes in the 1950s and 1960s. At the UCI Track World Championships in 1955 and the UCI Track World Championships in 1962 , both times in Milan , he led the Spaniard Guillermo Timoner to the world title of professional stayers . In 1956 in Ordrup near Copenhagen and in 1958 in Paris the team became vice world champions. In 1960 , the Dutchman Martin Wierstra became vice world champion of amateur stayers behind Van Ingelghem's leadership in Leipzig .

On July 19, 1963, Van Ingelghem had a second accident on the velodrome in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam ; four weeks later he died as a result of the fall. He was the last pacemaker to date to have a fatal accident in a standing race.

literature

• Utrecht's Niewsblad , August 16, 1963
• Cycling , August 20, 1963

Web links

• Beginnersfout noodlottig in the Olympic Stadium on stuyfssportverhalen.wordpress.com v. April 8, 2012 (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ olympischstadion.nl ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ De Indische Courant , September 8, 1938