Roger De Neef

Roger De Neef

To person
Date of birth	April 1, 1906
date of death	October 25, 2001
nation	Belgium
discipline	Train , road ,
Most important successes
Six days race 1929: Cologne (with Pierre Goossens ); 1931: Brussels (with Adolphe Charlier ); 1933: Berlin (with Albert Buysse ); 1935: Brussels (with Adolphe Charlier ); 1936: Antwerp (with Kamille De Kuysscher )

Roger De Neef (born April 1, 1906 in Lokeren ; † October 25, 2001 there ) was a Belgian cyclist and local politician.

Athletic career

Roger De Neef was one of the most popular and successful six-day riders in the 1930s. He started in a total of 35 six-day races, of which he won five. His standard partner was the Liege Adolphe Charlier . Together with him, he contested 23 six-day races, in which they stood on the podium 14 times. In 1929 he won the Cologne six-day race with Pierre Goossens and in 1933 that of Berlin with Albert Buysse .

World War II and post-war period

In May 1940 De Neef was on the occasion of a six-day race in Buenos Aires when his home country Belgium was occupied by the German Wehrmacht as part of the Western campaign . He volunteered at the Belgian Embassy and trained first in Canada and later in Great Britain . In 1944 he was involved as a paratrooper in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the War Cross with Palms for his work. When he returned to his family at the end of the war, he had not seen them for five years. In later years De Neef became involved in local politics, becoming a council member and alderman in his hometown Lokeren.

De Neef also worked as an organizer of cycling races. In 1995 he was honored by the city as Lokeren Sportsman of the Year for his services to sport . The Grote Prijs Stad Lokeren Ereprijs Roger De Neef is held annually in Lokeren .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sportraadlokeren.blogspot.de

literature

• Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 203

Web links

• Roger De Neef in the Radsportseiten.net database