Jacques Bellenger

Jacques Bellenger (born December 25, 1927 in Amiens ) is a former French track cyclist and national cycling champion .

Jacques Bellenger was the dominant sprinter in France in the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1948 he started at the Olympic Games in London in this discipline, but could not place. In 1948 and 1949 he was French amateur sprint champion and in 1949 he finished second at the World Track Championships in Ordrup, Denmark . In 1948 he was also French champion in team pursuit and French military champion in sprint. From 1955 to 1959 he also won the French championship in the Omnium . Of the traditional Grand Prix competitions for sprinters, he won the Copenhagen Grand Prix as an amateur .

From 1950 to 1959 Bellenger drove as a professional . During this time he was three times French sprint champion and took several podium places. At the UCI track world championships in 1951 in Milan he was runner-up in the sprint behind the British Reg Harris . Towards the end of his career he also started in seven six-day races and was second in Buenos Aires in 1959 , together with Bernard Bouvard , and was also French runner-up in the single pursuit . In 1958 he and Pierre Brun won the Prix Dupré-Lapize railway competition in Paris . He ended his career in early 1960.

Web links

Jacques Bellenger in the Radsportseiten.net database

Jacques Bellenger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 52 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Bellenger, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amiens

[:0-1] Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 52 (French).