Georges Wambst

Georges Wambst (1928)

Georges Wambst (born July 21, 1902 in Lunéville , † August 1, 1988 in Raon-l'Étape ) was a French cyclist .

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, Georges Wambst won the gold medal in the team classification of the road race , together with his compatriots Armand Blanchonnet , René Hamel and André Leducq . In the individual time trial on the road, he finished eighth, Blanchonnet won gold and Hamel bronze. Then he became a professional. In 1925 Georges Wambst won the Paris-Rouen road race , in 1929 the invitation race for the best professionals of the season, the Critérium des As , but in the following years mainly drove on the track .

Wambst started in 33 six-day races, five of which he won, in 1926 in Paris and Berlin , 1927 in Breslau , 1928 in Paris and Nice , all together with Charles Lacquehay . Several times he successfully took part in French standing championships and took podium places until he won the championship title in his last professional year in 1940. In 1928 he won the Prix ​​Dupré-Lapize rail competition in Paris together with Charles Lacquehay and in 1932 with Paul Broccardo .

After the end of his active cycling career, Wambst was also active as a pacemaker and led Eddy Merckx in track cycling competitions with the Derny .

Georges Wambst came from a cycling family. His brother Auguste (1908–1987) was the French standing champion in 1935, and his brother Fernand (1912–1969) also won two six-day races. In 1920, Georges Wambst won a competition in Joinville-le-Pont , which is considered the forerunner of today's triathlon , called "Les Trois Sports" (swimming across the Marne, 12 km cycling, 4 km walking).

References and comments

1. ↑ The four French riders finished first, third, eighth and ninth in the individual time trial . Your times were added up for the team classification.
2. ↑ cyclisme-roltiss.over-blog.com: "Blois-Les grandes heures du vélodrome à la TV belge 16 June 2009" ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ thiswasthriathlon.org ( Memento from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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• Georges Wambst in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Georges Wambst in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )