José Bento Pessoa
José Bento Pessoa (born March 7, 1874 in Figueira da Foz , † 1954 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese cyclist .
Bento Pessoa began his sporting activities with swimming, athletics and rowing until he became an active soccer player as a goalkeeper. After a fractured ankle, the doctor advised him to cycle as one of the few options for sport after his complicated fracture. In 1891, at the age of 17, he watched a bicycle race and from then on developed an enormous sporting ambition in it.
In 1896 he moved to Lisbon, where he switched from Brennabor to Raleigh bicycles. He became the first sportsman in Portugal to make a living from sports. The trading house Casa MA Esteves paid him 40,000 réis a month. In addition, he regularly won other prize money, for example at the Grande Prémio Internacional in the Velódromo D. Carlos , where he won 100,000 Reís, or the distance from Caldas da Rainha to Lisbon, which he covered in 5h12m, for which he expensive with a 20,000 Réis Gold coin and an equal amount in cash.
In 1897 Bento Pessoa competed in a season in Spain, where he won the first Spanish cycling championship, the 100 km from Ávila , and all 68 of 68 other races. On May 27, 1897, in the Velódromo de Ciudad Lineal , which later became the Estadio de Chamartín , in the Chamartín district of Madrid , he broke the then current speed record of the French Edmond Jacquelin with his modern nine and a half kilogram Raleigh bike by completing the 500 meters in 33 covered 1/5 seconds. A series of races followed in France, Italy, Belgium, and Germany. In Switzerland, where Bento Pessoa was temporarily announced as a Spaniard, there was a race duel with the local cycling idol Théodore Champion , which Bento Pessoa won, and in which the press at the time attested the Portuguese a spectacular top speed of 70 km / h.
He was a founding member of the Ginásio Clube Figueirense , a sports club founded on January 1, 1895 in his hometown. The home stadium of the professional football club Naval 1º de Maio , the Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa in Figueira da Foz, has had his name since it opened in 1953.
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- ↑ Article from February 11, 2010 in the sports newspaper A Bola ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 11, 2012
- ↑ www.magliarosa.wordpress.com , accessed September 11, 2012
- ↑ www.uvp-fpc.pt (PDF file; 452 kB), accessed on September 11, 2012
- ↑ GINÁSIO CLUBE FIGUEIRENSE. (No longer available online.) March 1, 2012, archived from the original on March 1, 2012 ; accessed on March 4, 2018 (French). 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.
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SURNAME | Bento Pessoa, José |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1874 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Figueira da Foz , Portugal |
DATE OF DEATH | 1954 |
Place of death | Lisbon |