Rudolph Lewis

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Rudolph Lewis

Rudolph Ludewyk Lewis (born July 12, 1887 in Waterberg District , South Africa , † October 29, 1933 in Pretoria ) was a cyclist from South Africa.

Lewis won the gold medal in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics road race . The route led around Lake Mälaren near Stockholm, where the traditional cycle race “Around Lake Mälaren” is still held today. The race was held as an individual time trial over 320 km. Lewis went out on the track as the second driver and went solo after the first driver gave up prematurely. After 10 hours, 42 minutes and 39 seconds he was at the finish line, and in the final statement he was nine minutes ahead of the runner-up.

Lewis was active as a professional in Europe in 1913 and 1914. In 1914 he won the cycling race around Dresden . In the year he had also won this race, but had been disqualified - for reasons that are incomprehensible today.

At his professional races in Europe, Rudolph Lewis was equipped with bicycles by Diamant . In 1913 he took part in the Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin race, but was unlucky: “ The South African Lewis, who was also unlucky on the 'Rund durch Westdeutschland' trip, had his bike on which the front wheel had broken, At the turning point of the Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin trip , let Rütt hand over the control to a man with the request to send the bike to the Diamant-Werke in Chemnitz-Reichenbrand . However, since this has not happened, Lewis asks the gentleman concerned to send the machine off soon. “Despite this mishap with his diamond wheel, he declared in an advertisement for the company the following year:“ I have never taken another machine from Diamand the original than the one in the catalog and I was often on the streets but the bloody Bicycle always blew goose. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rad-Welt , August 19, 1913
  2. ^ Rad-Welt , March 30, 1913
  3. ^ Rad-Welt , May 13, 1914

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