Jean-Pierre Monseré

Jean-Pierre Monseré
Personal information
Full name	Jean-Pierre Monseré
Nickname	Jempi Monseré
Born	8 September 1948; Roeselare, Belgium
Died	15 March 1971 (aged 22); Lille, Belgium
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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Representing Belgium
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

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

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

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[1] "The world champion died on a Monday". CyclingTips. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.

[sports-reference-2] "Jean-Pierre Monseré Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

[3] Monseré Memorial GP

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1900–1919	Giovanni Gerbi (1905) Cesare Brambilla (1906) Gustave Garrigou (1907) François Faber (1908) Giovanni Cuniolo (1909) Giovanni Micheletto (1910) Henri Pélissier (1911) Carlo Oriani (1912) Henri Pélissier (1913) Lauro Bordin (1914) Gaetano Belloni (1915) Leopoldo Torricelli (1916) Philippe Thys (1917) Gaetano Belloni (1918) Costante Girardengo (1919)
1920–1939	Henri Pélissier (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921–1922) Giovanni Brunero (1923–1924) Alfredo Binda (1925–1927) Gaetano Belloni (1928) Pietro Fossati (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Antonio Negrini (1932) Domenico Piemontesi (1933) Learco Guerra (1934) Enrico Mollo (1935) Gino Bartali (1936) Aldo Bini (1937) Cino Cinelli (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Mario Ricci (1941) Aldo Bini (1942) (1943–1944, not held) Mario Ricci (1945) Fausto Coppi (1946–1949) Renzo Soldani (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Giuseppe Minardi (1952) Bruno Landi (1953) Fausto Coppi (1954) Cleto Maule (1955) André Darrigade (1956) Diego Ronchini (1957) Nino Defilippis (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)
1960–1979	Emile Daems (1960) Vito Taccone (1961) Jo de Roo (1962–1963) Gianni Motta (1964) Tom Simpson (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Franco Bitossi (1967) Herman Van Springel (1968) Jean-Pierre Monseré (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Felice Gimondi (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Roger De Vlaeminck (1976) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1977) Francesco Moser (1978) Bernard Hinault (1979)
1980–1999	Alfons De Wolf (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) Giuseppe Saronni (1982) Sean Kelly (1983) Bernard Hinault (1984) Sean Kelly (1985) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1986) Moreno Argentin (1987) Charly Mottet (1988) Tony Rominger (1989) Gilles Delion (1990) Sean Kelly (1991) Tony Rominger (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Vladislav Bobrik (1994) Gianni Faresin (1995) Andrea Tafi (1996) Laurent Jalabert (1997) Oscar Camenzind (1998) Mirko Celestino (1999)
2000–2019	Raimondas Rumšas (2000) Danilo Di Luca (2001) Michele Bartoli (2002–2003) Damiano Cunego (2004) Paolo Bettini (2005–2006) Damiano Cunego (2007–2008) Philippe Gilbert (2009–2010) Oliver Zaugg (2011) Joaquim Rodríguez (2012–2013) Dan Martin (2014) Vincenzo Nibali (2015) Esteban Chaves (2016) Vincenzo Nibali (2017) Thibaut Pinot (2018) Bauke Mollema (2019)
2020–2039	Jakob Fuglsang (2020)

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Jean-Pierre Monseré

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Career[]

Palmarès[]

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References[]

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