Alfred Mottard Explained

Alfred Mottard
Birth Date:11 August 1892
Birth Place:Jemelle, Belgium
Death Place:near Nordhausen, Nazi Germany
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider

Alfred Mottard (11 August 1892  - 24 January 1945) was a Belgian racing cyclist.[1] He rode in the 1920 Tour de France.[2] [3] He was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Fort Breendonk and Buchenwald concentration camp before dying in Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alfred Mottard . Cycling Archives . 14 September 2020.
  2. Web site: Tour de France 1920 . Cycling Archives . 14 September 2020.
  3. Web site: 14ème Tour de France 1920. Memoire du cyclisme. https://web.archive.org/web/20120124082638/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1920.php. 24 January 2012.
  4. Web site: Alfred Mottard . 2024-01-28 . Gedenkstätte Buchenwald . de.