Georges Paillard
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Born | Sainte-Gemmes-d'Andigné, France | 12 February 1904||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 April 1998 Angers, France | (aged 94)||||||||||||||||
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Georges Auguste Joseph Paillard (12 February 1904 – 22 April 1998) was a French cyclist.[1] He won two UCI Motor-paced World Championships in the professionals division in 1929 and 1932 and finished in second place in 1930.[2][3] Before turning professional in 1923 he competed in sprint at the 1920 Summer Olympics but failed to reach the finals.[4] As a road cyclist, he won the races of Paris-Dieppe and Rouen-Le Havre in 1923 and Critérium des As in 1937.[2]
On 29 March 1937 he set a world speed record at 137.404 km per hour behind a motorcycle pacer on the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry. In 1949, he set the hour record at 96.48 km.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Georges Paillard". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Georges Paillard. memoire-du-cyclisme.net
- ^ Track Cycling World Championships 2012 to 1893. bikecult.com
- ^ Georges Paillard Archived 13 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
Categories:
- 1904 births
- 1998 deaths
- French male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of France
- Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Maine-et-Loire
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- French track cyclists
- French cycling biography, 1900s birth stubs