Jean-Pierre Monseré
Personal information | |
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Full name | Jean-Pierre Monseré |
Nickname | Jempi Monseré |
Born | Roeselare, Belgium | 8 September 1948
Died | 15 March 1971 Lille, Belgium | (aged 22)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional team | |
1969–1971 | Flandria–De Clerck–Krüger |
Major wins | |
1970 World Road Race Championship | |
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Medal record |
Jean-Pierre "Jempi" Monseré (8 September 1948 – 15 March 1971) was a Belgian road racing cyclist who died while champion of the world.
Career[]
Monseré was a talented amateur was included in Belgian national squad for the 1968 Summer Olympics as a support rider for Roger De Vlaeminck. After De Vlaeminck crashed in training ride, Monseré could ride for himself[1] and finished in 6th place in the individual road race,[2] before turning professional for Flandria in 1969. He won the Giro di Lombardia that year. A year later he became the Belgian track omnium champion and on 16 August 1970 he won the world championship in Leicester, England. He was the second-youngest world champion after another Belgian, Karel Kaers. In 1971 he again became Belgian champion, this time track madison.
On 15 March 1971, Monseré was riding the Grote Jaarmarktprijs in Retie. On the road from Lille to Gierle a car driven onto the course collided with him and he died on the spot. A monument now stands at the spot. In a cruel twist of fate, in 1976 Monseré's seven-year-old son, Giovanni, died after a collision with a car, while riding his racing bike, given to him on his first communion by a family friend, another world champion, Freddy Maertens.
Jean-Pierre Monseré is remembered each September with a memorial cycle trophy, the Grote Herdenkingsprijs Monseré,[3] organized by the Retiese Wielerclub 'De Zonnestraal'. Jempi Monseré's medals are in the in Roeselare.
Palmarès[]
- 1968
- Belgium national road race for militaries
- 1968 Olympic Games: 6th place
- 1969
- Giro di Lombardia
- 1970
- World Road Race Championships
- Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1971
- Vuelta a Andalucía
See also[]
- Curse of the rainbow jersey
- List of professional cyclists who died during a race
References[]
- ^ "The world champion died on a Monday". CyclingTips. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ "Jean-Pierre Monseré Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^ Monseré Memorial GP
External links[]
- Biographical information at Cycling Hall of Fame
- Jean-Pierre Monseré at Cycling Archives
- 1948 births
- 1971 deaths
- People from Roeselare
- Belgian male cyclists
- UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
- Cyclists killed while racing
- Sport deaths in Belgium
- Olympic cyclists of Belgium
- Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from West Flanders
- Belgian cycling biography, 1940s birth stubs