Liévin Lerno

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Liévin Lerno (right) and the Swede Olle Wänlund (left) cross the finish line almost simultaneously at the road world championship in 1948 in Valkenburg, the Netherlands

Liévin Lerno (born October 5, 1927 in Lokeren , Belgium , † before March 28, 2017 ) was a Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

Lerno was active between 1946 and 1954. Until 1948 he drove as an amateur and as such had the first major success of his sports career with 2nd place at the road world championship in 1948 in Valkenburg, the Netherlands . With the Belgian national team, he won the gold medal in road racing at the 1948 Olympic Games in London . He then switched to the professional camp , where he initially drove for the French team Garin-Wolber. In 1950 he won his first professional victories in the races of Oostakker and Eke . After the winless year 1951, Lerno switched to the Belgian team Groene Leeuw, with whom he won the criterion in Nazareth , Belgium in September 1952 . 1954 was the last year of his career as a professional driver. In May of this year he won his last race at the Sint-Lievens-Esse course in Belgium.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olympic pistier Liévin Lerno stuff. In: nieuwsblad.be. March 28, 2017, Retrieved April 13, 2017 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Lerno, Liévin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lokeren
DATE OF DEATH before March 28, 2017