Victor Fastre Explained

Victor Fastre
Birth Name:Victor Joseph Henri Fastre
Birth Date:19 May 1890
Birth Place:Liège, Belgium
Death Place:Rotselaar, Belgium
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1910-11
Proteam1:Alcyon-Dunlop
Proyears2:1912
Proteam2:Sarolea
Proyears3:1913-14
Proteam3:Individual
Majorwins:Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1909

Victor Joseph Henri Fastre (19 May 1890 – 12 September 1914) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1909.[1]

Personal life and death

Fastre was son of Hubert Henri Joseph Fastre and his wife Marie Catherine Sophie (nee Leuwen). Enlisted in the Belgian Army in 1910, he was killed in action within Belgium during World War I.[2]

Palmarès

1907
  • 1st Bruxelles-Jemeppe
    1909
  • 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
  • 2nd Namur–Bruxelles
    1910
  • 1st Angleur–Tilff–Angleur
    1911
  • 1st Antwerpen–Kalmthout
    1912
  • 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: 2023 . Victor Fastre . FirstCycling.com . en.
    2. https://www.wardeadregister.be/en/dead-person?idPersonne=18258