Maurice Perrin

Maurice Perrin (born October 27, 1911 in Paris , † January 2, 1992 in Plaisir ) was a French track cyclist and Olympic champion.

At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Maurice Perrin and Louis Chaillot won the gold medal in the tandem race . In 1930 and 1932 he won the renowned sprint competition GP Cyclo-Sport de Vitesse and in 1931 the Copenhagen Grand Prix .

During the Second World War , Perrin was a German prisoner of war for four years . He then took over his parents' meat wholesale business in Paris. In later years he lived on the family winery in Beaujolais .

Web links

Maurice Perrin in the Radsportseiten.net database

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

Individual evidence

^ Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 219 .

personal data
SURNAME	Perrin, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French track cyclist and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	2nd January 1992
Place of death	Plaisir

[1] Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 219 .