Georges Ronsse Explained

George Ronsse
Full Name:George Ronsse
Birth Date:4 March 1906
Birth Place:Antwerp, Belgium
Death Place:Berchem, Belgium
Currentteam:Retired
Discipline:Road, track and cyclo-cross
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1926 - 1929
Proteam1:Automoto
Proyears2:1930 - 1933
Proteam2:La Française
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Tour de France

1 individual stage (1932)One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (1928, 1929)

Paris–Roubaix (1927)

Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1925)

Scheldeprijs (1927)

Paris–Brussels (1928)

Bordeaux–Paris (1927, 1929, 1930)

GP Wolber (1930)Cyclo-cross

Belgian Championship (1929, 1930)Track cycling

Belgian Championship Stayers (1934, 1935, 1936)

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Georges Ronsse (4 March 1906, Antwerp - 4 July 1969, Berchem) was a two-time national cyclo-cross and two-time world champion road bicycle racer from Belgium, who raced between 1926 and 1938.[1]

In addition to his several national and world championships, Ronsse won several of the classic races in road cycling including the 1925 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the 1927 Paris–Roubaix, and the 1927, 1929 and 1930 editions of the now-defunct Bordeaux–Paris.[2] He won his first world championship title in 1928 in Budapest with a lead of 19 minutes and 43 seconds over second-placed finisher Herbert Nebe, the largest winning margin in road world championship history.[3] In 1932, Ronsse capped off his career with a Stage 4 win at the 1932 Tour de France. After retiring from competition he served as manager of the Belgian national team at the Tour.[4]

Major results

Road race

1925
  • 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
  • 1st Schaal Sels
  • 6th Overall Tour of Belgium Independents
  • 1st Stage 6
    1926
  • 3rd Championship of Flanders
  • 3rd Omloop der Leiestreek
    1927
  • 1st Paris–Roubaix
  • 1st Bordeaux–Paris
  • 1st Scheldeprijs
  • 1st Circuit of North-Belgium
  • 3rd Paris–Tours
  • 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
  • 9th Tour of Flanders
    1928
  • 1st Road race, UCI World Championships
  • 1st Paris–Brussels
  • 1st Rupelmonde
  • 2nd Paris–Roubaix
  • 3rd Circuit de Paris (fr)
    1929
  • 1st Road race, UCI World Championships
  • 1st Bordeaux–Paris
  • 2nd Belgian National Road Race Championships
  • 2nd Tour of Flanders
  • 2nd Paris–Roubaix
  • 3rd Paris–Tours
    1930
  • 1st Bordeaux–Paris
  • 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
  • 1st GP Wolber
  • 1st Antwerp–Brussels–Antwerp
  • 2nd Circuit du Midi
  • 3rd Road race, UCI World Championships
  • 6th Paris–Tours
  • 6th Paris–Roubaix
    1931
  • 2nd Circuit de Paris (fr)
  • 3rd Paris–Lille (fr)
  • 3rd GP Wolber
  • 4th Paris–Roubaix
    1932
  • Tour de France
  • Winner stage 4
  • 5th place overall classification
  • 2nd Paris–Roubaix
  • 3rd Paris–Brussels
    1933
  • 1st GP Stad Antwerpen
  • 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 1st Stage 1 & 4

    Cyclo cross

    1927
  • 2nd National Championships
    1928
  • 2nd National Championships
  • 2nd Critérium International de Cyclo-cross (fr)
    1929
  • 1st National Championships
    1930
  • 1st National Championships
  • 2nd Critérium International de Cyclo-cross (fr)
    1931
  • 3rd Critérium International de Cyclo-cross (fr)
    1933
  • 1st Cyclo-cross championship of Antwerp

    Track Cycling

    1934
  • 1st Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)
    1935
  • 1st Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)
  • 3rd Motor-paced, UCI Track World Championships, Brussels
    1936
  • 1st Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)
  • 3rd Motor-paced, UCI Track World Championships, Zürich
  • 3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Adolf Schön)
    1937
  • 3rd Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)
  • 3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Maurice Depauw)
    1938
  • 2nd Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: 2023 . Georges Ronsse . FirstCycling.com . en.
    2. Web site: Palmarès de Georges Ronsse (Bel) . 31 December 2021 . Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu . fr.
    3. Web site: Giro d’Italia stage 11 preview: Organizers bring back 1968 Worlds finish circuit in Imola . Fotheringham . Alasdair. Alasdair Fotheringham . 19 May 2015. cyclingnews.com. 20 May 2015.
    4. Book: Fotheringham . William . William Fotheringham. 2012. Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson. . 121 . 978-1-4464-3587-8.

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