Jean Aerts Explained

Jean Aerts
Full Name:	Jean Aerts
Birth Date:	1907 9, df=yes
Birth Place:	Laken, Belgium
Death Place:	Bruges, Belgium
Discipline:	Road
Role:	Rider
Proyears1:	1929
Proteam1:	Elvish-Fontan
Proyears2:	1930
Proteam2:	Fontan-Wolber
Proyears3:	1931 - 1939
Proteam3:	Alcyon
Proyears4:	1940 - 1943
Proteam4:	individual
Majorwins:	Grand Tours Tour de France 12 individual stages (1930, 1932, 1933, 1935)One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1935) Paris-Brussels (1931)

Jean Aerts (8 September 1907 - 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships. In 1935, Aerts captured first place and the gold medal at the professional UCI Road World Championships in Floreffe, Belgium.^[1]

In 1927 professional and amateur riders rode concurrently at the Nürburgring in Germany and Aerts finished 5th, the highest ranked amateur. He also competed in three events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[2] Although he lacked climbing ability for major tours, he used his sprinting ability to win 11 stages of the Tour de France, including six in 1933.^[3]

Major results

Amateur

1926

2nd National Road Championships, Amateur Road Race

1927

UCI Road World Championships

1st Amateur Road Race

5th Men's Road Race

1st National Road Championships, Amateur Road Race

1st La Haye-Bruxelles

1st GP Egg-Tiberghien

1928

1st National Road Championships, Amateur Road Race

3rd UCI Road World Championships, Amateur Road Race

Professional

1929

2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya

Winner stages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7

1st Tour du Sud-Ouest

1st Villeneuve sur Lot

1st Circuit de la Chalosse

6th Paris–Roubaix

7th Paris–Tours

1930

Tour de France

Winner stage 6

1st GP du Marthonnais

2nd GP de la Tribune Républicaine

3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country

6th Paris–Roubaix

7th Paris–Tours

8th Paris–Brussels

8th GP Wolber

1931

1st Paris–Brussels

1st Circuit du Midi

1st Wanze

3rd Tour of Flanders

1932

Tour de France

13th place Overall classification

Winner stage 1

1st Prix Goullet-Fogler (with Omer De Bruycker)

1st Grand Critérium d'Europe

2nd Paris-Belfort

2nd Circuit du Morbihan

4th Paris–Roubaix

4th Tour of Flanders

5th Paris–Brussels

1933

Tour of Belgium

Overall winner

Winner stages 2, 3 and 5

Tour de France

9th place Overall classification

Winner stages 4, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 21

1 stage Paris–Nice

1934

1 stage Tour de Suisse

1st Paris - Boulogne-sur-Mer

1st Critérium de Bâle

1935

1st Road race, UCI World Championships

Tour de France

Winner stages 4, 8, 10 and 19

29th place overall classification

1st Paris - Vichy

1st Zürich Criterium

3rd Paris–Roubaix

1936

1st National Road Championships, Road Race

1st Critérium de Pau

1937

1st London Criterium

Track

1936

1st Brussels (Derny)

2nd Six Days of London (with Albert Buysse)

3rd Six Days of Brussels (with Adolf Schön)

1937

1st Six Days of Brussels (with Omer De Bruycker)

1st Six Days of Paris (with Omer De Bruycker)

1941

1st National Championships Stayers

1942

1st National Championships Stayers

1943

3rd National Championships Stayers

External links

Web site: Palmares . fr . 11 June 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070615230954/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/palmares/aerts_jean.php . 15 June 2007 . bot: unknown . dmy-all .
- Official Tour de France results for Jean Aerts

Notes and References

Web site: 2023 . Jean Aerts . FirstCycling.com . en.
Web site: Jean Aerts Olympic Results . 8 June 2014 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105135301/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ae/jean-aerts-1.html . 5 November 2013 .
Web site: Palmarès de Jean Aerts (Bel) . 31 December 2021 . Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu . fr.