Paul Dangla

Paul Dangla

Paul Dangla (1903)
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Full name	Léopold-Marie Dangla
Date of birth	January 16, 1878 or January 16, 1882
date of death	June 26, 1904
nation	France
discipline	train
Last updated: April 30, 2016

Léopold-Marie "Paul" Dangla (born January 16, 1882 in Laroque-Timbaut or January 16, 1878 , † June 26, 1904 in Magdeburg ) was a French cyclist.

Paul Dangla was born as the son of Marie Pelegrin and Ferdinand Dangla, the father, a former gendarme , worked as a guard champêtre in his birthplace Le Passage . One brother had died at the age of nine months a year before Dangla was born. From 1896 he earned a reputation in his home region as a good amateur in sprint and tandem races .

Paul Dangla behind pacemaker Marius Thé in the Vélodrome d'Hiver (1903/04)

In 1899 Paul Dangla, actually a trained accountant , went to Paris to compete as a professional in standing races and became a popular local hero, and after breaking all of the German Thaddäus Robl's world records on August 16, 1903 , became a "national hero". On October 18, he again set a world hour record behind Pacemaker over 84.4577 kilometers in the Prinzenparkstadion , as the August record had since been beaten by Tommy Hall . In 1903 he was vice-European champion of the stayers and in the same year French vice-champion. On June 12, 1904, Dangla crashed on the cycling track in Magdeburg, shortly after winning the Golden Wheel of Magdeburg . He died two weeks later.

In Agen a school was named after Dangla Collège Paul Dangla , which bears this name to this day (2016) and is located on Rue de Paul Dangla . For many years the bicycle with which he had crashed stood on his grave in the Dolmayrac cemetery ; On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, it was to be put in a glass cabinet. After this was announced in the press, the bike was stolen.

Web links

Commons : Paul Dangla  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paul Dangla in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Dangla, Paul. In: cycling4fans.de. June 18, 1904, accessed April 30, 2016 . 
• Paul Dangla. In: Stuyfssportverhalen. January 1, 2011, accessed April 30, 2016 (Dutch). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Dangla. In: Cycling Archives. Retrieved April 30, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Laroque Timbaut - Ses illustres ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) 
3. ^ Death register StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, 1194/1904
4. ↑ ^{a b} Cycling Archives: Paul Dangla - Memo. In: radsportseiten.net. Retrieved April 30, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Andrew M. Homan, Life in the Slipstream. The Legend of Bobby Walthour sr. Potomac Books, Dulles 2011, ISBN 978-1-59797-685-5 , pp. 139 .
6. ^ Présentation du collège Paul Dangla. In: colleges47.org. 2016, accessed April 30, 2016 .