Jack Heid
John Sebastien "Jack" Heid (born June 26, 1924 in New York , † May 27, 1987 in Bushkill , Pennsylvania ) was an American track cyclist .
1948 Jack Heid came to Europe in order for the Olympic Games in London to start. He made it to the quarter-finals in the sprint and finished seventh in the 1000-meter time trial . The following year, he finished third in the sprint at the World Railroad Championships and thus won the first world championship medal for the USA since 1912 . He was trained by Jack Simes II, with whom he also started in tandem races.
Heid was considered a pioneer of American cycling as he was the first US cyclist to race in Europe after the war. At first he remained an amateur and lived by selling smuggled goods. He turned professional in the early 1950s and settled in England. At the UCI rail world championships in 1950 , he finished eighth in the sprint. In 1950 he married a Belgian woman and originally wanted to take Belgian citizenship. In 1951 he returned to the United States and drove there three more six-day races ; In 1957 he was third in Chicago with Mino De Rossi . In 1967 he was killed in a fire in his home. In 1989 he was posthumously inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame .
Individual evidence
- ↑ classiccycleus.com
- ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 1/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 13 .
- ↑ Jack Heid on usbhof.org
Web links
- Jack Heid in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Jack Heid in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hey, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heid, John Sebastien (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1987 |
| Place of death | Bushkill |