Henri Bréau

Henri Bréau
	Henri Bréau (1928)
To person
Nickname	La Grenouille
Date of birth	June 10, 1900
date of death	December 11, 1969
nation	France
discipline	train
Most important successes
	Track cycling world championships 1928 - Standing race (professionals)
	Last updated: January 3, 2017

Henri Bréau (born June 10, 1900 in Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron , † December 11, 1969 in La Rochelle ) was a French cyclist and national champion in cycling .

As an amateur, he first drew attention to himself when he finished fourth at the 1926 World Railroad Championships. Henri Bréau was a professional cyclist from 1926 to 1928. On May 25, 1926, at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry , he set a world record of 93.484 kilometers behind pacemaker , but this was not recognized due to technical modifications to the bicycle. At the UCI track world championships in Budapest in 1928 he was runner-up in the standing race , and at the national championship he won the title.

Because of his crouched position on the bike, Bréau was nicknamed La Grenouille ( the frog ). In addition to cycling, he was an inventor and tinkerer: he built a vélo-ski and an avi-cycle . In 1933 he presented a bicycle that could be ridden on ice. He also performed as a jazz musician with the accordion under the name Grenouille .

During a great fire in Paris, Henri Bréau saved the lives of several people at the risk of his life.

Web links

Henri Bréau in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

^ Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 114 (French).
↑ ^a ^b Harry Van den Bremt et al .: Gotha Velo . Velo - Travel Marketing, Mechelen 2005, p. 77 .
↑ Photos by Bréau suggest that he used a multiplicateur , a construction made up of several chainrings, for this record attempt .
↑ Une nouveauté sportive. Feuille d'Avis de Neuchatel, December 4, 1933, accessed December 4, 2016 . (pdf)
↑ Dans le Retro :: histoires de derny et de motos. In: stayer-fr.blog4ever.net. Retrieved January 4, 2017 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Bréau, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1969
Place of death	La Rochelle

[1] Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 114 (French).

[gotha-2] Harry Van den Bremt et al .: Gotha Velo . Velo - Travel Marketing, Mechelen 2005, p. 77 .

[3] Photos by Bréau suggest that he used a multiplicateur , a construction made up of several chainrings, for this record attempt .

[4] Une nouveauté sportive. Feuille d'Avis de Neuchatel, December 4, 1933, accessed December 4, 2016 . (pdf)

[5] Dans le Retro :: histoires de derny et de motos. In: stayer-fr.blog4ever.net. Retrieved January 4, 2017 (French).