Willie Windle
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| Full name | William Windle |
| Nickname | Wee Willie |
| Date of birth | November 2, 1870 |
| date of death | September 8, 1936 |
| nation | United States |
| discipline | train |
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William "Willie" Windle (born November 2, 1870 in Millbury , Massachusetts , † September 8, 1936 ibid) was an American cyclist .
Willie Windle was one of the first generation of racing cyclists; he still practiced cycling on the penny farthing . Since he was built very gracefully, he was called "Wee Willie" ( little Willie ). From 1889 to 1892 Windle was American sprint champion four times in a row .
Windle set world and national records several times. On October 7, 1892, in Hampden Park , Boston , he drove the mile in 2: 02.45 minutes in strong winds, thus improving his own world record of 2:04 minutes. A three-seater acted as a pacemaker for half a mile .
In 1895 Willie Windle retired from cycling. He then traveled through the USA as an evangelist for a few years.
The future sprint world champion from the USA, Major Taylor , named Windle alongside Arthur Augustus Zimmerman as his role model. He remembered in his memoirs that Windle treated him extremely kindly when he was a teenager and shook his hand. This experience was significant for the colored Taylor, as he was later exposed to severe reprisals in the sports scene when he became successful.
literature
- John C Crane, Robert Wayland Dunbar, Millbury (Mass.): Centennial history of the town of Millbury, Massachusetts, including vital statistics, 1850-1899, The Town, Millbury, 1915, p. 605.
Individual evidence
- ^ Boston Evening Transcript , October 8, 1892
- ↑ Oswego Daily Times , September 21, 1895 (PDF; 219 kB)
- ↑ The Jennings Daily Record , April 25, 1902 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- ^ Andrew Ritchie: Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer . Johns Hopkins University Press 1988. p. 27
Web links
- Willie Windle in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Willie Windle in the database of Find a Grave (English)
1889-1892 Willie Windle | 1894 Arthur Augustus Zimmerman | 1895–1897 Eddie-Christian Bald | 1898 Tom Butler | 1899 Tom Cooper | 1900 Major Taylor | 1901–1916, 1918, 1921 Frank Kramer | 1919 Ray Eaton | 1917, 1920 Arthur Spencer | 1922, 1923, 1926 William Spencer | 1924 Adison Spencer | 1925, 1928, 1929 Freddie Spencer | 1926 Bart Bowen | 1927 Harris Horder | 1930–1932 Cecil Walker | 1933 George Dempsey | 1934–1936 Willie Honeman | 1937 Mathias Engel | 1938 Albert Sellinger | 1939 George Shipman | 1940 Mike Francoise | 1941 Tom Saetta | 1965, 1967 Jack Simes | 1966, 1968 Jack Disney | 1969 Tim Mountford | 1970 Skip Cutting | 1971, 1972 Gary Campbell | 1973 Roger Young | 1974, 1975 Steve Woznick | 1976–1979 Leigh Barczewski | 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985 Mark Gorski | 1981 Les Barczewski | 1984 Nelson Vails | 1986, 1987 Scott Berryman | 1988-1992 Ken Carpenter | 1993, 1999-2001 Marty Nothstein | 2003, 2005 Stephen Alfred | 2004, 2007 Michael Blatchford | 2006 Gideon Massie | 2008 James Davis Watkins | 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Matthew Baranoski | 2016 David Espinoza | 2017, 2019 James Mellen | 2018 Sandor Delgado
The results are not complete.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Diaper, Willie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Windle, William (full name); Windle, Wee Willie (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Millbury , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1936 |
| Place of death | Millbury , Massachusetts |