Mathias Engel

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Mathias Engel Road cycling
To person
Date of birth October 16, 1905
date of death June 23, 1994
nation German EmpireGerman Empire German Empire / United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
discipline Railway (short term / endurance)
Most important successes

UCI track world championships

1927 World Champion - sprint (amateurs)
Last updated: June 18, 2017

Mathias Engel (born October 16, 1905 in Cologne , † June 23, 1994 in Carlstadt , New Jersey ) was a German track cyclist .

Like Toni Merkens and Albert Richter, Mathias Engel came from the so-called "Cologne Aviation School ". In 1926 and 1927 he won the sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris as an amateur . At the track world championships in Cologne in 1927, he was amateur world champion in sprinting in front of a home crowd.

In 1928 Engel was declared a professional cyclist by the Association of German Cyclists for violating the amateur statutes (he had put the advertising lettering for the Opel company on his frame ) . He then officially joined the pros in the same year. As such, he was three times German sprint champion (1928, 1929, 1932). In 1932 he took third place in the sprint at the World Railroad Championships in Rome , behind Jef Scherens and Lucien Michard .

In 1929 Mathias Engel and Max Schmeling were awarded the " Golden Ribbon " from the "Association of Sports Journalists Berlin-Brandenburg". Engel was married to a Jewish woman; for this reason he left Germany in 1937 and emigrated to the USA with the help of former cyclist Victor Hopkins , where he became national sprint champion that same year. He later worked as a sidekick at track bike races , then opened a bike shop in Nutley, New Jersey, which was an open bike race track until 1942, and ran a bike shop until 1964.

successes

1926
1927
1928
  • German EmpireGerman Empire German champion - sprint
1929
  • German EmpireGerman Empire German champion - sprint
1932
1932
  • United StatesUnited States American champion - sprint

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 42/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 19 .
  2. ↑ VDS Berlin: "The Prize Winners of the Golden Ribbon"
  3. ↑ classiccycleus.com: "Billy Honeman" (English) ( Memento from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1994
Place of death Carlstadt , New Jersey