Showing posts with label belgian national road race championships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belgian national road race championships. Show all posts

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Georges Lemaire

Georges Lemaire
Georges Lemair (1905 -1933) was a Belgian who raced bicycles professionally from 1929 to 1933. He won the Belgain National Road Race Championship in 1932. Lemair competed in the Tour de France finishing in 15th place in the overall general classification in 1932 and 4nd place in 1933. Georges Lemair had an unfortunate accident while competing in the 1933 Belgian National Road Championship that was fatal.
Georges Lemaire

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Felix Sellier

Felix Sellier
Felix Sellier ( 1893 - 1965) was a Belgian professional road cyclist. His professional racing career was during the years 1912 through 1928.

Sellier won the 13th stage of the 1921 Tour de France.  The 1921 Tour de France riders were classified into two categories, sponsored and non-sponsored riders. He was racing as an non-sponsored rider. The non-sponsored riders began the stages two hours before the sponsored riders. Sellier finished the 1921 tour in 8th place of the non-sponsored riders and 16th place overall of all the riders.

At the the 1922 Tour de France Felix Sellier raced as a sponsored rider and started the stages at the same time as the other favorites. He won a stage and finished the tour in 3rd place overall in the general classification.

Sellier won one more stage of the Tour de France in 1926. He won stage 4 that year.

Years 1923 and 1926 were successful years for Felix Sellier in his home land of Belgium. Those years he won the Belgian National Road Race Championships.
Felix Sellier

Felix Sellier