Richárd Bicskey

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Richárd Bicskey (born October 4, 1936 in Budapest , † June 21, 2020 ) was a Hungarian cyclist .

Life

Bicskey began his career at the Printer Sports Association in the Tipográfia-Szabad Nép bicycle department. He won his first two victories in Hungarian competitions in 1954. In the same year, at the age of eighteen, he became a member of the Hungarian national track cycling team and stayed there until 1968. At the time of the Hungarian popular uprising in 1956, he went to Paris with his cycling colleague Imre Furmen and won in March 1957 the local national championship in the group of amateurs . As a result, he was not nominated by his association for Olympic competitions in 1956. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , he and his stepbrother Ferenc Habony took fifth place in the tandem competition . He was able to repeat this placement together with László Sleisz at the UCI Track World Championships in 1967 in Amsterdam . In 1968 he ended his active career as a cyclist and then worked as a mechanic and trainer . In the 1970s he went to the Netherlands for family reasons and lived there for three decades. In 2005 he returned to his native Hungary.

With 33 victories in various disciplines in Hungarian competitions, he is one of the most successful cyclists in his country.

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SURNAME Bicskey, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2020