Gerard Debaets Explained

Gerard Debaets
Birth Date:17 April 1898
Birth Place:Heule, Belgium
Death Place:North Haledon, New Jersey, United States
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1924
Proteam1:Labor-Dunlop
Proyears2:1925
Proteam2:Individual
Proyears3:1926
Proteam3:Alcyon-Dunlop
Proyears4:1927
Proteam4:Opel-ZR III / JB Louvet-Wolber
Proyears5:1928
Proteam5:Alcyon-Dunlop
Proyears6:1929-40
Proteam6:Individual
Majorwins:One-day races and Classics

Tour of Flanders (1924, 1927)

Paris–Brussels (1925)Track Championships

US National Track Championships

Derny (1924)

Gerard Debaets (17 April 1898[1] [2] [3]  - 27 April 1959) was a Belgian racing cyclist.[4] He won the Tour of Flanders in 1924 and 1927 and the Belgian national road race title in 1925.[5] 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.[6] Debaets was a resident of Fair Lawn and North Haledon, New Jersey, where he died in 1959 of a heart attack.[7] [8]

Major results

Road

1923
  • 1st Tour of Flanders independents
    1924
  • 1st Tour of Flanders
  • 1st París-Arrás Tour
  • 1st Overall Critérium des Aiglons
  • 1st Stages 1 & 2
  • 2nd Paris–Brussels
  • 2nd Jemeppe–Bastogne–Jemeppe
  • 4th Overall Tour of Belgium
  • 8th Scheldeprijs
  • 10th Paris–Roubaix
    1925
  • 1st Road race, National Interclubs Championships
  • 1st Paris–Brussels
  • 2nd Bordeaux–Paris
  • 3rd Sclessin–Houffalize–Sclessin
  • 4th Giro della Provincia di Milano
  • 5th GP Wolber
  • 6th Paris–Roubaix
    1926
  • 1st Brussels–Paris
  • 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
    1927
  • 1st Tour of Flanders
  • 2nd Hannover–Bremen–Hannover
  • 3rd Sclessin–Houffalize–Sclessin
    1928
  • 2nd Criterium des As

    Track

    1924
  • 1st United States National Track Championships Derny
    1925
  • 1st Six Days of New York-2 (with Alfons Goossens)
    1927
  • 1st Six Days of Detroit (with Anthony Beckman)
    1928
  • 1st Six Days of New York-1 (with Franco Giorgetti)
  • 1st Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Anthony Beckman)
  • 3rd Six Days of Chicago-3 (with George Dempsey)
    1929
  • 1st Six Days of New York-2 (with Franco Giorgetti)
  • 1st Six Days of New York-3 (with Franco Giorgetti)
    1930
  • 1st Six Days of New York-1 (with Gaetano Belloni)
  • 1st Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Anthony Beckman)
    1931
  • 3rd Six Days of New York-2 (with Franco Giorgetti)
  • 3rd Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Franco Giorgetti)
    1932
  • 3rd Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Alfred Letourneur)
  • 3rd Six Days of Philadelphia-2 (with Alfred Letourneur)
    1933
  • 1st Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Alfred Letourneur)
    1934
  • 1st Six Days of New York-2 (with Alfred Letourneur)
  • 1st Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Alfred Letourneur)
  • 1st Six Days of Buffalo-2 (with Alfred Letourneur)
  • 1st Six Days of Philadelphia (with Alfred Letourneur)
  • 1st Six Days of Montreal (with Alfred Letourneur)
  • 1st Six Days of Toronto-1 (with Alfred Letourneur)
    1935
  • 2nd Six Days of New York-1 (with Ewald Wissel)
    1936
  • 3rd Six Days of New York-2 (with Alvaro Giorgetti)
    1937
  • 3rd Six Days of Buffalo-2 (with Tino Reboli)
    1938
  • 3rd Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Tino Reboli)
  • 3rd Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Tino Reboli)
  • 3rd Six Days of Chicago-3 (with Marcel Guimbretiere)

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Heule, Burgerlijke stand akten 1893-1900, 1898 geboorteakte 60 . 7 February 2020 . Belgian State Archives.
    2. Cattebeke, Hannes Web site: Gerard Debaets, de gouden jaren van de koers . 7 February 2020 . Uitgeverij Kannibaal.
    3. Web site: Vergeten wielerheld herleeft, boek brengt eerbetoon aan Gerard Debaets . 7 February 2020 . Het Laatste Nieuws.
    4. Web site: Gérard Debaets . 29 April 2014 . Pro Cycling Stats.
    5. Web site: Gérard Debaets . 29 April 2014 . Cycling Archives.
    6. Web site: 2023 . Gérard Debaets . FirstCycling.com . en.
    7. Gabriele, Michael C. The Golden Age of Bicycle Racing in New Jersey, p. 93. The History Press, 2011. . "Following his retirement in 1945, he opened a bicycle shop in Paterson and resided in Fair Lawn and North Haledon."
    8. Staff. "Gerard Debaets Is Dead at 61; Won 18 Six-Day Bicycle Races", The New York Times, 28 April 1959. Accessed 11 September 2015. "North Haledon, N. J., April 27 - Gerard Debaets, a member of NORTH HALEDON, N. J., April 27--Gerard Debaets, a member of winning teams in eighteen six-day bicycle races and the holder of several national bicycle championships, died today of a heart attack at his home, 139 Oakwood Avenue."

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