Guillermo Timoner

Guillermo Timoner, 1966

Guillermo Timoner Obrador (born March 24, 1926 in Felanitx ) is a former Spanish cyclist , six-time world champion and thus the most successful stalker of all time.

Guillermo Timoner was born on Mallorca as the son of a simple farm worker and grew up in poor conditions. After a short period of schooling, he worked as a mechanic for agricultural equipment, but was already training for his big dream of becoming a cyclist.

The only 1.62 meter tall Timoner was six times world champion of the stayers and 29 times Spanish champion in various cycling disciplines. When he first won the world title in Milan in 1955, he was the first Spanish world champion in cycling. At the UCI World Championships in 1967 he was fined for failing to appear for the doping test.

He took part in his last world championship race in 1985 at the age of 59.

The six world championship jerseys that Timoner won between 1955 and 1965 are on display in the anteroom of the Mallorcan monastery Santuari de Sant Salvador near Felanitx. His Swiss colleague Ferdy Kübler said of Guillermo Timoner: "He is venerated almost like a saint in all of Spain." In 1997 he was honored with the highest sporting award in the Balearic Islands, Cornelius Atticus . On the occasion of his 90th birthday on March 24, 2016, the Felanitx community had a plaque in honor of Timoner put up on his home as part of a ceremony.

Timoner's brother Antonio was also a successful cyclist.

Palmarès (selection)

Pacemaker machine owned by Timoner in the Museu de la Moto de Barcelona

• World champion in the standing race: 1955, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965
• Vice world champion in the standing race: 1956, 1968
• Vice European champion in the standing race: 1958, 1959, 1963
• Spanish champion in the standing race: 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1984
• Spanish champion in the Derny race : 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949
• Spanish sprint champion : 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956
• Spanish champion in single pursuit : 1949, 1951, 1956
• Spanish champion in two-man team driving : 1951, 1952, 1954
• Spanish military champion in road racing: 1948
• Balearic champions in sprint: 1945, 1947
• Balearic champions in single pursuit: 1945
• Balearic champions in the stand-up race: 1947

Web links

Commons : Guillermo Timoner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Guillermo Timoner in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Standing World Championships will no longer be held.
2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 36/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 5 .
3. ↑ Distinció Cornelivs Atticvs-ACORDS de Concesio i guardonats. In: caib.es. Retrieved February 19, 2018 (Catalan). 
4. ↑ Guillermo Timoner, 90 años de gloria deportiva internacional. (No longer available online.) Viufelanitx.com, March 27, 2016, archived from the original on March 28, 2016 ; Retrieved March 28, 2016 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Guillermo Timoner on lepetitbraquet.free.fr ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.