Freddy Eugen

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Freddy Eugen (1966)

Frederik "Freddy" Eugen (born February 4, 1941 in Copenhagen ; † June 8, 2018 ) was a Danish cyclist and one of the most successful six-day cyclists of the 1960s.

Freddy Eugen was a professional cyclist from 1961 to 1969. In 1960 he became Danish champion in the single pursuit of amateurs and in 1961 began his professional career in the Danish racing team Crescent . He contested his first six-day race in Copenhagen, where he was 13th and last with his compatriot Hammel. Although at home in Copenhagen, it was his only start there. In 1962 he was already 5th in the "Europe Criterion" in Zurich and 7th in the Six-Days in the Berlin Sportpalast with Baunsoe (DK). In total, he started in 95 six-day races, of which he won nine. The first of seven victories with his compatriot and standard partner Palle Lykke (with whom he competed 51 times) he achieved in Münster in 1963 . He won two six-day races with the Italian Leandro Faggin . He contested several six-day races with his father-in-law Rik Van Steenbergen .

Occasionally the track specialist drove shorter road races in the summer, especially in Belgium, where he finished one of the criteria as a winner. In 1963 he also won the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse and came second on the seventh stage. In 1966 he started at the World Road Championships on the Nürburgring , but did not finish the difficult race.

In 1968 Eugen and the German Rolf Roggendorf became vice European champion in the Madison , in 1967 he was third together with the Belgian Romain De Loof . But Eugen ended his sporting career in 1969 at the age of 28.

He then lived with his wife Beatrice († 2007) in Zurich and worked as a showman. In the last years of his life, he suffered from severe heart disease that eventually led to death.

Trivia

In the mid-1960s there was no association for professional cyclists in Denmark that could issue licenses. Eugen had to apply for his license directly from the Union Cycliste International (UCI) as a so-called stateless person, which of course he was not.

literature

  • Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de night . Eeklo 2000, p. 208

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Freddy Eugen er død. In: cyclingworld.dk. June 10, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 (Danish).
  2. ↑ CyclingWorld: De gamle danske 6-dageshelte lever ikke mere. In: cyclingworld.dk. June 12, 2018, accessed March 1, 2020 (Danish).
  3. ↑ The European championships before the founding of the " European Cycling Union " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, since up to this point they were usually invitation races, in which non-European riders and mixed teams from different countries could also take part.
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 38/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 8 .

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SURNAME Eugene, Freddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eugen, Frederik (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2018