Hans Andresen (cyclist)

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Hans Andresen Road cycling
To person
Full name Hans Edmund Andresen
Nickname Drs
Date of birth October 3, 1927
date of death February 7, 2014
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
Societies)
Lyngby Cykle Club
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
1954 silver - road racing (amateurs)
Last updated: March 5, 2017

Hans Edmund Andresen (born October 3, 1927 in Gammel Holte , Denmark ; † February 7, 2014 ) was a Danish racing cyclist. He was the first Dane to complete a Tour de France .

Athletic career

Andresen started cycling at the age of 14. After graduating from school, he decided to become a racing cyclist and therefore also did an apprenticeship as a bicycle mechanic . He did this apprenticeship with the former cyclist and Olympian Arne Kohave Petersen, who gave him half a day for training twice a week. Andresen was short and muscular and therefore a predestined sprinter. He developed into one of the best Danish road drivers of the 1950s, his nickname was Hønsefarmeren fra Høsterkøb ( chicken farmer from Høsterkøb ) because there had been a chicken farm there for a while. When he started in six-day races, the song Den toppede høne was played for him

In 1950 Andresen became the Danish amateur road racing champion, and the following year he won the Tour of Sweden . In 1953 he won a stage of the Friedensfahrt and came second in the overall standings behind his compatriot Christian Pedersen . In 1954 he achieved his greatest success when he was runner-up in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Solingen, behind the Belgian Emiel Van Cauter . Hans Andresen took part in the Olympic Games twice - in 1948 and 1952 . In 1948 in London he started in a tandem race with Evan Klamer , the duo took fifth place. Four years later in Helsinki he finished ninth in the road race and sixth with the team. He started as an amateur for ABC Copenhagen.

In 1956 Andresen turned pro, and in 1958 he started the tour once , together with three other Danes. He was the only one of them to finish the tour and finished 62nd overall.

successes

1950
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish amateur champion - road racing
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andresen, Hans E. (No longer available online.) In: cyclingstars.dk. Archived from the original on February 14, 2017 ; accessed on March 8, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cyclingstars.dk
  2. ↑ ABC Vennerne. Retrieved December 27, 2019 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Andresen, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andresen, Hans Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Gammel Holte , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2014
Place of death Gammel Holte , Denmark