German motorcycle racer and racing driver (1910–1999)
For the chess player, see Georg Meier (chess player). For the German philosopher and aesthetician, see Georg Friedrich Meier.
Georg Meier
Meier with his historic 1939 BMW twin-cylinder Grand Prix race machine
Nationality
German
Born
(1910-11-09)9 November 1910
Died
19 February 1999(1999-02-19) (aged 88)
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Isle of Man TT career
TTs contested
2 (1938-1939)
TT wins
1
TT podiums
1
Georg "Schorsch" Meier (German pronunciation:[ʃɔʁʃˈmaɪ̯ɐ]ⓘ; 9 November 1910 – 19 February 1999) was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first foreign winner of the prestigious Senior TT, the Blue Riband race of the Isle of Man TT Races, in 1939 riding for the factory BMW team and the first motorcycle racer to lap a Grand Prix course at over 100 mph.[1]
Georg "Schorsch" Meier (German pronunciation: [ʃɔʁʃ ˈmaɪ̯ɐ] ; 9 November 1910 – 19 February 1999) was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first...
the BMW management decided that GeorgMeier and Jock West would compete in the 1939 Senior TT Race and GeorgMeier led from start to finish winning at...
motorcycle from the 1930s. A BMW 255 Kompressor was ridden to victory by GeorgMeier in the 1939 Isle of Man TT and the first win by a non-British competitor...
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Georg Friedrich Meier (26 March 1718 – 21 June 1777) was a German philosopher and aesthetician. A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, he reformed...
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0 V12 s Hermann Paul Müller All Tazio Nuvolari All Rudolf Hasse All GeorgMeier 1-3 Hans Stuck 2-4 Daimler-Benz AG Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz W154 Mercedes-Benz...
No. 10 Ponomariov, world No. 27 Lê Quang Liêm, world No. 40 Giri, and GeorgMeier. Nakamura had a second consecutive disappointing performance, beginning...
Prix). Hasse managed a second place in the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix, and GeorgMeier a second in the French. (key) (results in bold indicate pole position...
Benelli marque. The Senior TT race was won by the German competitor GeorgMeier on a supercharged 500cc BMW Type 255 motor-cycle. The Austrian competitor...
Fabiano Caruana (Italy) 2757 ½ ½ Does not appear 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 6 2778 3 GeorgMeier (Germany) 2640 ½ ½ 0 ½ Does not appear ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 5 2 2729 4 Michael...
participants included Caruana, Adams, Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman and GeorgMeier. Anand took clear 1st place after scoring 6.5 points out of 10, defeating...
Findeiß (born 1971), poet Anja Kaesmacher (born 1974), operatic soprano GeorgMeier (chess player) (born 1987), German grandmaster of chess Wolfram Leibe...
awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title. 2021 NA Junior U20 Open GeorgMeier wins American Continental Championship 2023 FIDE World Cup - Pairings...
Nakamura (United States) 2770 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ Does not appear ½ 1 4½ 22.00 2 2687 6 GeorgMeier (Germany) 2656 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 Does not appear 3 15.25 0 2597...
Shankland won the Northern California International ahead of strong GMs GeorgMeier, Alejandro Ramirez, Yury Shulman, and Bartlomiej Macieja. In 2013, Shankland...
solo races, securing BMW's first win in the Senior TT since that of GeorgMeier in 1939. Dunlop again took victory in the 2016 Superbike TT during the...
the Feldberg track was never completed and its races came to an end. GeorgMeier holds the Feldberg lap record on a BMW with an average speed of 119.1 km/h...
of all times Helene Mayer (1910–1953), foil fencer, Olympic champion GeorgMeier (1910–1999), motorcycle racer Yona Melnik (born 1949), Israeli Olympic...
Congress, but won the Nancy Rapid event the next month, a point ahead of GeorgMeier. He lost three consecutive games at the 39th Bosna Tournament to finish...
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