Serge Blusson

Serge Blusson (born May 7, 1928 in Paris , † March 14, 1994 in Creil ) was a French cyclist and Olympic champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Blusson was a participant in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and won the gold medal in the team pursuit with Pierre Adam , Charles Coste and Fernand Decanali with the French foursome . The following year he finished 4th at the UCI Road World Championships for Amateurs with the victory of Henk Faanhof . He had previously won two renowned street races for amateurs: the Paris – Evreux race and the Stockholm Grand Prix . From 1950 to 1959 he was active as a professional driver and had his first professional contract with the Delangle-Wolber team . His debut in the new profession was successful with victory in the Paris – Limoges race . In July he contested his first Tour de France , which he finished 42nd. In 1951 he retired after a fall on the 10th stage. In 1953 he again had a greater success with the victory at the Grand Prix Plouay . At the start of the tour in 1954 (now part of Louison Bobet's team ) he suffered the bad luck again, so that he had to leave the race on the 5th stage. His last start in one of the important races was at Paris-Tours in 1959.

Web links

• Serge Blusson in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Serge Blusson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1933-1953 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 1998, p. 193 .
2. ↑ Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1954 to 1965 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 1999, p. 7 .
3. ^ Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 83 (French).