Roger Gaignard

Roger Gaignard
	Roger Gaignard (r.) With Jan Derksen (center) ; and Arie van Vliet at the 1957 World Cup in Liège
To person
Nickname	clown
Date of birth	April 13, 1933
nation	France
End of career	1966
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 1957 - Sprint (professionals) 1954 - sprint (amateurs)
	Last updated: May 28, 2019

Roger Gaignard (born April 13, 1933 in Paris ) is a former French track cyclist .

As a track cyclist, Roger Gaignard specialized in sprinting . In 1954 he achieved his first two great successes: He came third in the amateur sprint at the 1954 UCI track world championships in Cologne and took second place in the renowned sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris .

In 1955 Gaignard became a professional and took third place in the French championship in the professional sprint; the following year he won the championship title and came second again at the Grand Prix de Paris . By 1965 he was a six-time French sprint champion. In 1957 he again finished third in the sprint at a World Track Championships . On non-European tracks, he won the 1964 North American sprint championship. In 1954 he improved the world records over 1000 meters with a standing or flying start. He won several international sprint tournaments, such as the 1958 Grand Prix de l´UCI , where he defeated the reigning world champion Jan Derksen . He also won the Copenhagen Grand Prix and the Amsterdam Grand Prix that year.

He also started in 20 six-day races .

Roger Gaignard, who came from a circus family, was nicknamed a clown because he worked as a circus clown during his cycling career and afterwards.

successes

1954

Amateur World Championship - Sprint

1956

French champion - sprint

1957

World Championship - Sprint
French champion - sprint

1958

French champion - sprint

1963

French champion - sprint

1964

French champion - sprint

1965

French champion - sprint

Web links

Roger Gaignard in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

↑ Harry Van den Bremt, Joel Godaert, Paul De Keyser: Gotha Velo . Ed .: Velo. Mechelen 2005, ISBN 90-804763-3-1 , p. 210 .
^ Paul Bering, Albert van Laethen (ed.): Le Cyclisme . Brussels 1958, p. 173 (French).
↑ Cycling , No. 35, August 31, 1954, p. 8.

personal data
SURNAME	Gaignard, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris

[1] Harry Van den Bremt, Joel Godaert, Paul De Keyser: Gotha Velo . Ed .: Velo. Mechelen 2005, ISBN 90-804763-3-1 , p. 210 .

[2] Paul Bering, Albert van Laethen (ed.): Le Cyclisme . Brussels 1958, p. 173 (French).

[3] Cycling , No. 35, August 31, 1954, p. 8.