Mogens Frey

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Mogens Frey (1967)

Mogens Frey Jensen (born July 2, 1941 in Glostrup ) is a former Danish cyclist , world champion and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

After finishing 2nd in the Nordic championship with the Danish four-man roadster, he joined the team for the road world championship in 1961 (just turned 20), where he finished 59th. However, after winning the national championship in team pursuit driving in 1963, he specialized in track racing and in 1964 was able to win the title in both the individual and team pursuit driving. In 1967 Frey won the silver medal in the individual pursuit at the World Championships.

In 1968 Mogens Frey won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , together with Per Lyngemark , Reno Olsen , Peder Pedersen and Gunnar Asmussen . In the final, the Danish four-man competed against Gustav Kilian's German team , but the German four-man was disqualified in the last round for "unauthorized pushing". In the same games Frey won the silver medal in the single pursuit and was a few weeks later at the UCI track world championships in 1968 in Montevideo world champion in this discipline.

In total, Frey was eight times national champion in the pursuit disciplines on the track . But he was also successful in road races when he won the Nordic Championship in 1965 with the road four. In 1967 he was able to become Danish champion in individual road driving and in 1968 he was fifth in the road world championship. In 1969 he became vice world champion in the team time trial in Brno , together with Leif Mortensen , Jørn Lund and Jørgen Emil Hansen .

Then Mogens Frey went over to the pros, started with the Frimatic-De Gribaldy team in the Tour de France 1970 and won the ninth stage from Saarlouis to Mulhouse . There was a memorable duel between him and his team captain Joaquim Agostinho , both of whom had torn away from the peloton 20 kilometers earlier. Agostinho obviously didn't expect Frey to actually sprint to overtake him. When Frey did overtake him, Agostinho grabbed his handlebars to be the first to cross the finish line. The competition jury, however, put Agostinho back in second place.

After he achieved two victories as a professional driver in France in 1970 and was completely unsuccessful in the HOOVER-De Gribaldy team in 1971, he returned to Denmark, competed in several six-day races and tried his hand at staying . In 1974 he ended his sporting career at the age of 33.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill and Carol McGann: The Story of the Tour de France , Indianapolis 2008, Volume 2 1965-2007, p. 50

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SURNAME Frey, Mogens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey Jensen, Mogens (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Glostrup