Adolph Verschueren

Adolph ( " Dolf " or " Dolph " ) Verschueren ( born June 10 1922 in Deurne, † April 30, 2004 ) was a Belgian racing cyclist and three-time world champion stayer.

During the Second World War, Adolph Verschueren began his racing career with victories at smaller road races in Belgium. In 1942 he won the Tour of Flanders in the age-group of " independents ". In 1949 he took part in the Tour de Suisse and chose the sixth stage of its own. 1947 Verschueren second at Paris -Roubaix in 1949, he finished second in Liège- Bastogne- Liège.

By 1950 Verschueren the uprights sport turned to increasingly and in the same year Belgian and European champions. Overall, he was until 1960 nine times Belgian champion the professional upright and behind the Derny and four times European Champion. In 1954, he also made it with 58.586 kilometers behind derny leadership in the Antwerp Sportpaleis a new world hour record. When the new Westfalenhalle in Dortmund was opened in February 1952, was one of the stars Verschueren: " The Belgian was one of the most colorful figures in this profession, a daredevil who could drive the audience to rapturous applause, but also to white heat. "

In 1952, Adolph Verschueren world champion stayer, twice, in 1953 and 1954, he was able to repeat this success. When stayer final race of the UCI Track World Championships in 1961, however, Verschueren caused discord: The three -time world champion, who had been angry about a perceived disability, shook his fist, leaving the role of his guiding machine, drove in a zigzag pattern across the web and vulnerable as the other drivers and their pacemaker. The commissioners, former world champions Victor LINART and Georges Paillard, it was only with difficulty, to fetch him from the web. Subsequently, he was involved in brawls in the interior.

1963 ended Verschueren its active cycling career.