Marcel Ernzer

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Marcel Ernzer (Tour de France, 1958)

Marcel Ernzer (born March 22, 1926 in Esch-sur-Alzette , † April 1, 2003 in Luxembourg ) was a Luxembourgish cyclist .

Athletic career

Marcel Ernzer began cycling in 1943 at the Pignon Bonnevoie club , which had to call itself the Bonneweg cycling club during the German occupation. In 1948 Marcel Ernzer started at the Olympic Games in London in the street race , which he did not finish. The following year he switched to the pros , becoming national champion in the road race of the independents , third in the Tour of Luxembourg and third in the Tour de Suisse .

In the following years until the end of his professional career in 1962, Ernzer was three times Luxembourg road champion; In 1951 and 1962 he won the Tour of Luxembourg and in 1954 the classic Liège – Bastogne – Liège . In 1953 and 1957 he took tenth place at the UCI road world championships . Marcel Ernzer rode the Tour de France nine times , from the mid-1950s as a valuable helper to his compatriot Charly Gaul . After a serious fall at the Tour de France in 1962 , he had to end his cycling career.

Honors

In 1998 he received the National Olympic Committee's Fair Play Trophy.

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SURNAME Ernzer, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourgish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Esch-sur-Alzette
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2003
Place of death Luxembourg