Georges Passerieu

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Georges Passerieu Road cycling
Georges Passerieu during the Tour de France 1908
Georges Passerieu during
the Tour de France 1908
To person
Date of birth November 18, 1885
date of death May 5, 1928
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Street
Most important successes
Grands Tours
Yellow jerseySecond Tour de France 1906 , third 1908 , fourth 1907
One day race
Paris – Tours (1907), Paris – Roubaix (1907)
Last updated: December 30, 2016

Georges Passerieu (born November 18, 1885 in London , † May 5, 1928 in Épinay-sur-Orge ) was a French cyclist .

biography

The London-born Frenchman Georges Passerieu had a British mother and a French father, which is why he was named l'Anglais du Paris in the peloton . In 1905 he won the Paris-Reims race as an amateur and became French champion of the stayers .

As a result, Passerieu received a professional contract in a team sponsored by the car manufacturer Peugeot the following year . In 1907 he decided Paris – Roubaix for himself. He reached the Velodrome roubaisien a little ahead of the field alone. At the entrance to the cycling track, he was stopped by a police officer who checked that he had paid the necessary fee for using the roads. The organizing newspaper L'Auto urgently advised drivers to pay this fee before the race. Despite this stay, Passerieu managed to get on the train before Cyrille Van Hauwaert . He crossed the finish line just as Van Hauwaert reached the track.

Between 1906 and 1908, Passerieu won a total of seven stages in the Tour de France . In the overall ranking he finished two to four for three consecutive years. In 1908, Passerieu was the only rider to climb the ascent to Ballon d'Alsace without getting off his bike, all the other riders pushed their bikes up the mountain.

In the 600-kilometer one-day race Bordeaux – Paris , Passerieu finished fourth in 1908 and 1913. At the first edition of the Berlin six-day race in 1909, he finished third with Maurice Brocco .

Georges Passerieu died in 1928 at the age of 42 in a mental hospital in Brittany .

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914
Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 2 4th 3 - - DNF DNF DNF DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

  • 1906 Peugeot
  • 1907–1908 Peugeot-Wolber
  • 1909 Griffon-Wolber
  • 1911 La Française diamond
  • 1913 Automoto-Continental
  • 1914 Phebus-Dunlop
  • 1914 Atala-Dunlop

Web links

Commons : Georges Passerieu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Van den Bremt et al .: Gotha Velo . Velo - Travel Marketing, Mechelen 2005, p. 418 .
  2. ^ Philippe Conrate / Pascal Sergent: Entre Paris et Roubaix. Petites histories d'une grande classique . Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyre-Sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-411-6 , p. 31 .
  3. ↑ 1907 Paris - Roubaix bicycle race complete results. In: BikeRaceInfo. Retrieved May 29, 2015 .
  4. ^ Pierre Chany / Thierry Cazeneuve: La Fabuleuse Histoire du Tour de France . Minerva, Geneva 2004, p. 118 .
  5. ↑ Portraits: Veterans: Passerieu, Georges. In: Cycling4Fans. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  6. ^ René Jacobs et al .: Velo Gotha . Presses de Belgique, Brussels 1984, p. 394 .
personal data
SURNAME Passerieu, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1928
Place of death Épinay-sur-Orge