Victor Linart

Victor LINART ( born May 26, 1889 in Floreffe; † 23 October 1977 in Verneuil -sur -Avre ) was a Belgian cyclist and four -time world champion.

At 14, won his first race in Victor LINART his hometown at a county fair. He made a business education in an ice factory, but soon realized that he could make money in the amount of the monthly salary by winning a bicycle race. In 1908, Victor LINART launched yet as an amateur at the Ronde van Limburg and took second place. In 1909 he turned professional and played as such races until 1933; Moreover, he focused in these years on pacemaker race. When the black-haired, dark-skinned LINART in Berlin broke his nose in a fall in 1912 and this remained flat in the episode, he was given the nickname " Sioux ".

During the First World War LINART raced in the United States; with packages, he provided the inmates in the prison of Floreffe.

Linart alone was 15 times Belgian professional champion of the posts for the last time in 1931. LINART 1913 won the title of European Champion of the uprights. In 1920 he occupied at the UCI Track World Championships in Antwerp, the second place the following year he was in Copenhagen world champion. He could repeat three times, in 1924 in Paris, 1926 in Milan, and in 1927 at the Velodrome stadium at the zoo in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal to ) this success. In the following years he took another second and two third places at the World Championships.

1933 ended LINART his cycling career. He settled in France down, opened a timber trade and took French citizenship in 1937. Both in his hometown Floreffe as well as in his later residence Verneuil -sur- AVRE in France streets were named after LINART. In Verneil -sur -Avre is an annual Radtourismusrennen "Challenge Victor LINART " discharged.