Victor Johnson
Victor Louis Johnson (born May 10, 1883 in Aston Manor , Warwickshire , † June 23, 1951 in Sutton Coldfield ) was a British cyclist who successfully competed in various disciplines of track cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1908 World Amateur Championship in Leipzig on the Sprint course won.
The son of bicycle mechanic John T. Johnson worked as a carpenter and won the gold medal in the 1908 Olympic Games in London in a competition over 660 yards (i.e. one round = 603.491 m) in 51.2 seconds at the White City Stadium .
He was also a finalist in the 1000 meter race, but retired there just like his compatriot Clarence Kingsbury with a puncture. The winner, the French Maurice Schilles and the runner-up, Benjamin Jones , did not get a medal because it was not counted because the time limit of 105 seconds was exceeded.
Johnson had already shown good form in the pre-Olympic year when he won 24 of 72 races and was among the finishers in a further 18 races.
The 1901 census documented that Johnson was then living at 22nd Station Road, Erdington , Warwickshire and practicing his above-mentioned profession. Nothing is known about the further course of his sporting career and his life after his sporting successes.
Web links
- Profile on www.databaseolympics.com
- Victor Johnson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Victor Johnson in the Radsportseiten.net database
Single receipts
- ↑ 120 years of the Association of German Cyclists - 120 years of cycling in Leipzig ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Cycling - Men's Sprint u. www.times-olympics.co.uk ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ 1901 census - 22 Station Road, Erdington, Warwickshire, RG 13/2876, page 3 of 41; England & Wales Birth Index, Apr / Jun quarter 1883, Victor Louis Johnson, Aston registration district, volume 6d, page 435; England & Wales Death Index, Apr / Jun quarter 1951, Victor L. Johnson, aged 68, Sutton Coldfield registration district, volume 9c, page 923
1893 Arthur A. Zimmerman | 1894 August Lehr | 1895 Jaap Eden | 1896 Harry Reynolds | 1897 Edwin Schrader | 1898 Paul Albert | 1899 Thomas Summersgill | 1900 Alphonse Didier-Nauts | 1901 Émile Maitrot | 1902 Charles Piard | 1903 Arthur L. Reed | 1904 Marcus Hurley | 1905 Jimmy S. Benyon | 1906 Francesco Verri | 1907 Jean Devoissoux | 1908 Victor Johnson | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 William Bailey | 1912 Donald McDougall | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Maurice Peeters | 1921 Henry Brask Andersen | 1922 Thomas Johnson | 1923, 1924 Lucien Michard | 1925 Jaap Meijer | 1926 Avanti Martinetti | 1927 Mathias Engel | 1928 Willy Falck Hansen | 1929 Antoine Mazairac | 1930 Louis Gérardin | 1931 Helge Harder | 1932 Albert Richter | 1933 Jacobus van Egmond | 1934 Benedetto Pola | 1935 Toni Merkens | 1936 Arie van Vliet | 1937, 1938 Jef van de Vijver | 1939 Jan Derksen | 1940–1945 not held | 1946 Oscar Plattner ; | 1947 Reginald Harris | 1948 Mario Ghella | 1949 Sydney Patterson | 1950 Maurice Verdeun | 1951, 1952 Enzo Sacchi | 1953 Marino Morettini | 1954 Cyril Peacock | 1955 Giuseppe Ogna | 1956, 1957 Michel Rousseau | 1958, 1959 Valentino Gasparella | 1960 Sante Gaiardoni | 1961, 1962 Sergio Bianchetto | 1963 Patrick Sercu | 1964 Pierre Trentin | 1965 Omar Pchakadze | 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 Daniel Morelon | 1968 Luigi Borghetti | 1972 not held | 1974, 1978 Anton Tkáč | 1976 not held | 1977 Jürgen Geschke | 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987 Lutz Heßlich | 1980 not held | 1981, 1982 Sergei Kopylov | 1984 not held | 1986 Michael Huebner | 1988 not held | 1989, 1990 Bill Huck | 1991 Jens Fiedler
(Afterwards the separation between amateurs and professionals was lifted. Further results under world champion in sprint )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Johnson, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Victor Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British track cyclist and Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aston Manor , Warwickshire , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1951 |
| Place of death | Sutton Coldfield |