Georges Grolimund

Georges Grolimund (* 1894 in Muntelier ; † 1983 ) was a Swiss cyclist and pacemaker .

Georges Grolimund spent his youth in Paris , where he often watched cycling races in the Prinzenparkstadion . After all, he competed in cycling himself for five years. As a trained mechanic, he was particularly interested in the pacemaker machines in standing races and was eventually hired by the French pacemaker Léon Didier . Didier later encouraged Grolimund to try it himself as a pacemaker.

In 41 years, from 1925 to 1966, Grolimund led over 50 different drivers to success on over 100 indoor and outdoor tracks. In 1931 Georges Grolimund became world champion in Copenhagen with the German Walter Sawall , in 1956 on the same track with the Australian Graeme French and in 1958 in Paris with the Zurich Walter Bucher . At the UCI Track World Championships in Rocourt in 1963 , Ueli Luginbühl won the bronze medal for amateur stayers behind Grolimund. In Switzerland, Grolimund led seven different drivers ( Türel Wanzenried , Theo Heimann , Jacques Besson , Walter Bucher, Ueli Lugenbühl , Peter Tiefenthaler , Heinz Läuppi , Fredy Stucki ) to 15 Swiss championship titles. He also won titles in Germany (5, four with Lohmann, one with Sawall), Italy (4, two with Leopoldo Torricelli , one with Armando Pellegrini and Egidio Maistrello ) as well as Belgium , Luxembourg , France and the Netherlands (1 each). The German Walter Lohmann he presented in 1955 on the 500-meter cement track in the stadium at the zoo of Wuppertal a world record: 100 km in 1:03:40 hours, hourly average km 94.016.

literature

• Peter Schnyder (Ed.): 100 years of fascination with cycling - Oerlikon racecourse. AS Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-909111-95-4 , p. 83.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the unexpected death of Ueli Luginbühl on kettenrad.ch v. December 7, 2010
2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 46/1966 . Cologne 1966, p. 16 .