Stjepan Grgac

Stjepan Grgac (born September 17, 1909 in Novaki near Zapresic , † December 15, 1960 in Sesvete ) was a cyclist from the former Yugoslavia and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

He competed in cycling races from 1927 to 1939. He was able to win four times at the Yugoslav championships in road racing , he won the title in 1930, 1932, 1933 and 1939. Grgac started for the club Sokol Zagreb . His first major success was winning the Zagreb championship in 1928, which he then won continuously until 1935. In 1934 he finished third in the Vienna - Graz race and competed on the Tour of Hungary . In 1935 he was second in the Tour of Romania behind the Pole Zigmund. In the same year he won the tour from Sofia to Varna in Bulgaria . He won the Croatian championship six times. In the 1937 tour through Croatia and Slovenia ( Kroz Srbiju ) he came second.

In 1936 he started the Tour de France with three other teammates in the national team of Yugoslavia, but retired on the 15th stage from the race.

Professional

Grgac trained as an electrician and worked in the electricity company in his hometown.

Honors

His son Krešo Grgac started a memorial race for his father (Stjepan Grgac Memorial) in Ivanic-Grad in 1971 .

Web links

Stjepan Grgac in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Stjepan Grgac. Retrieved November 12, 2019 (Croatian).
↑ Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1930-1953 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 1998, p. 68 .

personal data
SURNAME	Grgac, Stjepan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav cyclist, national champion in cycling
DATE OF BIRTH	17th September 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Novaki at Zaprešić
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1960
Place of death	Sesvete

[:0-1] Stjepan Grgac. Retrieved November 12, 2019 (Croatian).

[2] Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1930-1953 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 1998, p. 68 .