Historic Overview Gerard Debaets
Rider
Overall Rank | 1399 |
Name | Gerard DEBAETS |
Country | Belgium |
Date of birth | 17-Apr-1899 - Heule (West Vlaanderen) |
Date of death | 27-Apr-1959 - North Haledon (New Jersey - United States) |
Biography
Gerard Debaets (17 April 1898 – 27 April 1959) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1924 and 1927 and the Belgian national road race title in 1925. He also specialized in track cycling, winning a total of 18 six-day events, including six times the most prestigious Six Days of New York. Debaets was a resident of Fair Lawn and North Haledon, New Jersey, where he died in 1959 of a heart attack.
source - Wikipedia
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