Paris – Rouen 1869
Paris – Rouen 1869 was the first race between two cities in the history of cycling and is therefore considered to be the birth of road cycling. It took place on November 7, 1869 and went over 123 kilometers.
The race
The race was organized by the fortnightly magazine Le Vélocipède Illustré and the Olivier brothers, co-owners of the two-wheel manufacturer Michaux Werke and partner of Pierre Michaux , inspired by the popular success of the first track races since 1868. The first prize was 1,000 gold francs and a Bicycle awarded. The rules of the race were, among other things, that the riders were not allowed to be pulled by a dog and that they were not allowed to attach sails to the wheels.
120 racing drivers started, including two (after Gronen, Lemke five) women. Hazards was on Michaulinen as on three- and four-wheelers. 34 athletes finished the race within 24 hours. The winner was the Englishman James Moore , who had already won the first known track race the year before , with a 15-minute lead . Second place went to Frenchman Jean-Eugène-André Castera, third place to his compatriot M. (or Jean) Bobillier. One of the two women was able to place: She drove under the pseudonym Miss America - presumably an English woman named Mrs. Turner - and finished 29th with 12 hours and ten minutes behind Moore. According to Jean-Paul Ollivier, it was the French Laurence Petitjean who had emigrated to the USA. According to contemporary reports, she has been an undefeated racing cyclist for two years. The first tricycle driver, the French Tissier, crossed the finish line around nine hours behind.
After the race, Le Vélocipède Illustré saw a large increase in circulation, the bicycle manufacturers were able to advertise their products and the “winner earned an amount that a teacher would have had to work for a whole year during that time. Paris – Rouen was the first opportunity to show that perfect symbiosis of media, commerce and racing drivers that is still the foundation of cycling ”.
After the first staging, the Franco-German War broke out, and cycling races were initially primarily outsourced to cycling tracks . For these reasons it took 26 years until the second event in 1895. The Paris – Rouen race was held with interruptions until 2009, but since the First World War it has been a competition for amateurs .
From 1894 a Paris – Rouen car race was also held.
Results
Route length: 123 kilometers
| Driver) | time | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Moore | 10h 45 ' (11.4 km / h) |
| 2 | André Castera | + 15 ' |
| 3 | M. (or Jean) Bobillier | equal time |
| 4th | Henri Pascaud | + 1h 15 ' |
| 5 | Félix Gaston Biot | + 1h 39 ' |
| 6th | Cantellauve | + 2h 54 ' |
| 7th | Johnson ou Bon Edouard-Charles | + 3h 40 ' |
| 8th | Joseph Meunier | + 3h 50 ' |
| 9 | Shame | + 4h 33 ' |
| 10 | Eugène Meyer | + 4h 43 ' |
| 11 | Tribout | + 4h 45 ' |
| 12 | Guillot | + 5h 07 ' |
| 13 | Steckel | + 5h 11 ' |
| 14th | Lamon | + 6h 44 ' |
| 15th | Servoz | + 6h 50 ' |
| 16 | RR | + 7h 10 ' |
| 17th | Delage | + 7h 20 ' |
| 18th | G. Aubrecht | + 7h 25 ' |
| 19th | Leroy d'E | + 7h 30 ' |
| 20th | Venant | + 7h 35 ' |
| 21st | Wolz | + 7h 45 ' |
| 22nd | Daubel | + 7h 48 ' |
| 23 | Rocan | + 7h 53 ' |
| 24 | Duval | equal time |
| 25th | chateau | + 8h 20 ' |
| 26th | Tricycle Tissier | + 9h 20 ' |
| 27 | Constanceau | + 10h 30 ' |
| 28 | J. Pedro | + 11h 50 ' |
| 29 | Miss America | + 12h 10 ' |
| 30th | Gymnast | equal time |
| 31 | Taboureau | equal time |
| 32 | Ch. Chatelain | + 12h 35 ' |
| 33 | E. Fortin | + 14h 20 ' |
| 34 | Prosper Martin | equal time |
Web links
- Paris-Rouen - dimanche 7 November 1869. In: Memoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Les Woodland: This Island Race , Mousehold Press, 2005, p. 5
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Gronen, Walter Lemke: History of cycling, history of the bicycle . Fuchs Verlag, Hausham, p. 51 .
- ↑ Cyclopunk: Daily Cycling Facts November 7, 2013. In: cyclopunk.blogspot.de. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Cycling4Fans Historical: 1868-1918. In: Cycling4fans. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ^ Jean-Paul Ollivier: Histoire du Cyclisme . Editions Flammarion, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-08-011199-X , p. 9 (French).
- ↑ Hervé Paturle, Guillaume Rebière: Un siècle de cyclisme . Calmann- Lévy, Paris 1997, p. 8 (French).
- ↑ Benjo Maso : The Sweat of the Gods. The history of cycling . Covadonga Verlag , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-936973-60-0 , p. 11 .
- ↑ Benja Maso: The sweat of the gods. The history of cycling . Covadonga Verlag , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-936973-60-0 , p. 13 .
- ^ Paris-Rouen (Fra). In: Memoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ^ Results - Paris-Rouen . Mémoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved October 3, 2015.