Hans Andresen (cyclist)
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Full name | Hans Edmund Andresen |
Nickname | Drs |
Date of birth | October 3, 1927 |
date of death | February 7, 2014 |
nation | Denmark |
discipline | Railway (endurance) / road |
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Lyngby Cykle Club | |
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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
- 1951
- Sweden tour
- Nordic Championship - Team Time Trial (with Jørgen Frank Rasmussen , Willy Emborg and Kaj Allan Olsen )
- 1952
- two stages of the Route de France
- 1953
- a stage of the peace journey
- 1954
- Amateur World Championship - Road Racing
- one stage tour of Egypt
- 1955
- Overall ranking and a stage tour of Egypt
- one stage tour of Sweden
- Danish amateur champion - road racing
- 1956
- one stage tour of Sweden
Web links
- Hans Andresen in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Hans Andresen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Henrik Elmgreen: 'Hønsefarmeren' Hans E. Andresen er død. In: feltet.dk. February 7, 2014, accessed March 8, 2017 (dk).
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ↑ ABC Vennerne. Retrieved December 27, 2019 (Danish).
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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 |