Thorvald Ellegaard

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Thorvald Ellegaard Road cycling
Thorvald Ellegaard (1908)
Thorvald Ellegaard (1908)
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Date of birth March 7, 1877
date of death April 27, 1954
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
discipline train
End of career 1926
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
1901, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1911 World Champion - Sprint
Last updated: November 22, 2019
Ellegaard (center) as the winner of the Grand Prix de Paris 1910, with the Germans Walter Rütt (left) and Willy Arend
Ellegaard (r.) At the start of a race against the American Major Taylor in June 1902 on the Buffalo Velodrome in Paris

Thorvald Ellegaard , actually Thorvald Christian Christiansen , (born March 7, 1877 in Fangel Sogn , Funen ; † April 27, 1954 in Charlottenlund, Gentofte ) was a Danish cyclist .

Athletic career

Thorvald Ellegaard is one of the greatest athletes in Denmark. From 1895 to 1898 the “Flieger” (today: Sprinter ) drove races as an amateur; In the beginning he trained in the " Grazer Training School" of Alexander Gayer .

From 1898 to 1926 Ellegaard was active as a professional and was six times world champion in the sprint. In total, he achieved no less than 875 victories on 153 different cycle tracks in Europe, North America and Australia. Twice, in 1901 and 1911, he won the sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris and three times, in 1903, 1907 and 1912, the Grand Prix de l'UVF . Since he was very popular in Germany, he was hired in 1910 for a daily fee of 1,000 Reichsmarks for the Berlin six-day race , but had to give up (as a sprinter) after three days, completely exhausted. The outbreak of World War I ended his international cycling career, but after the war he continued to compete in national races.

On September 26, 1926, at the age of 49, he said goodbye to his racing career in Copenhagen and for a short time was sports director at the Ordrup cycle track . Ellegaard spent the last years of his life in Paris, where he had already lived during his active time as a cyclist. After a certificate, which in the space Inne Restaurant of Ordrup - Velodrome aushing, Ellegaard had a total of 715 Sprinter race, 123 Tandem races won and 133 handicap race.

Miscellaneous

Thorvald Ellegaard was the father of France Ellegaard (1912–1999), one of the most famous pianists in Scandinavia. In 2015, the cycling track named after him was inaugurated in Odense .

Successes (selection)

1898
  • silver European championship - 10 km
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg - Sprint, 1 Danish mile
1899
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg - 1 Danish mile
1900
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg - 1 Danish mile
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1910
1911
1912
1913

literature

  • Hans Borowik , 300 racing drivers in one volume , Berlin 1937

Web links

Commons : Thorvald Ellegaard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palmarès de Thorwald Ellegaard (Dan). In: memoire-du-cyclisme.eu. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Wehap: fresh, cycling, Styrian - a journey through time through the regional cultural history of cycling . Steirische Verlagsanstalt 2005, p. 59 ISBN 3854891261
  3. ^ Werner Ruttkus, Wolfgang Schoppe: Round gyro & Berlin air . Self-published by Werner Ruttkus, 2011, p. 102 .
  4. ↑ Thorvald Ellegaard. In: lepetitbraquet.fr. Retrieved November 22, 2019 (French).
  5. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 31/1957 . Berlin, S. 4 .
  6. ↑ Og navnet blev: Thorvald Ellegaard Arena Odense. In: feltet.dk. January 16, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2019 (dk).
personal data
SURNAME Ellegaard, Thorvald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christiansen, Thorvald Christian (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Fangel , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1954
Place of death Charlottenlund , Denmark