Maurice Peeters

Maurice Peeters medal table
Maurice Peeters as Olympic champion in Antwerp in 1920
Cycling
Netherlands Netherlands
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1920 Antwerp	Sprint (1000 m)
bronze	1924 Paris	Tandem race (2000 m)

Mouritius "Maurice" Prosper Peeters (born May 5, 1882 in Antwerp , Belgium , † December 6, 1957 in Leidschendam ) was a track cyclist , Olympic champion and world champion.

Peeters, who became a Dutch citizen in 1908 , won the gold medal in the sprint over 1000 meters with a time of 1: 38.3 minutes at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp . In the same year he became world champion in this discipline and won the sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris among the amateurs . Four years later he won the bronze medal in the 2000 m tandem competition at the Olympic Games , together with Gerard Bosch van Drakestein . He was also four times Dutch champion in the sprint of amateurs .

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Maurice Peeters in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Peeters, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peeters, Mouritius Prosper; Peeters, Maurice Prosper (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1957
Place of death	Sorry