Frans Leddy

Frans Leddy

To person
Date of birth	November 2, 1901
date of death	January 27, 1966
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Track cycling
Most important successes
Dutch championships in track cycling 1929, 1934 - standing races
Last updated: May 9, 2015

Frans Leddy (born November 2, 1901 in The Hague ; † January 27, 1966 there ) was a Dutch track cyclist .

Frans Leddy was one of the most successful stayers in the Netherlands in the 1920s. From 1924 to 1936 he was active as a professional . In 1924 and 1925 he was still primarily active as a road cyclist and won the The Hague-Brussels race in both years . Afterwards he only drove standing races, in 1929 and 1934 he was Dutch champion. He took part in world championships three times, but never made it to the podium. So he won the preliminary run at the UCI World Railroad Championships in Elberfeld in 1927 , but then dropped out early in the final.

Leddy won numerous grand prizes, especially in Germany; Constant Ceuremans was his pacemaker for six years . After the end of his cycling career, during which he suffered numerous, sometimes serious falls, he was financially independent.

Web links

• Frans Leddy in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wielersport.slogblog.nl - De Burgerlijke as of November 2nd. In: wielersport.slogblog.nl. Retrieved May 9, 2015 . 
2. ↑ 27ème Championnat du Monde de demi-fond per 1927. In: Memoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved May 9, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Frans Leddy. In: Stuyfssportverhalen. November 1, 2010, accessed May 9, 2015 (Dutch).