Frédéric de Civry

Frédéric de Civry

Frédéric de Civry (born August 21, 1861 in Paris , † March 15, 1893 in Courbevoie ) was a French cyclist .

Frédéric de Chivry was one of the cycling pioneers in France, who at the beginning of their career still competed in high- bike races . He came to cycling through the English cyclist Herbert Duncan , with whom he also trained together in England and is said to have learned everything about tactics and training from him. In 1893 de Civry became the first French sprint champion ; in this victory he is said to have doped himself with alcohol and was completely drunk. By 1897 he was able to win three more national titles, two of them in standing races . He also won the Angers Grand Prix three times , a sprint race that was very famous at the time. In 1883 he won two titles at the unofficial world championships in Leicester , over one and over 50 miles. In addition, he set several world records, including one on May 17, 1886 in Munich on the high wheel, when he had a standing start 1:41 min. needed for a kilometer.

De Civry died at the age of 32, leaving a fortune of 300 million gold francs as he was not only a successful cyclist but also a brilliant businessman and a board member of Clément & Cie . There were fierce disputes over the inheritance that only ended after 40 years.

Web links

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• Frédéric de Civry in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maurice Bazot: De l'exaltation sacrée au mythe du Guerrier: places de la transe et des drogues on www.irema.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 69 kB)  
2. ↑ René Jacobs, Hector Mahau, Harry Van Den Bremt, René Pirotte: Velo Gotha. Presses de Belgique, Brussels 1984, p. 128.