4 July 1969(1969-07-04) (aged 63) Berchem, Belgium
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road, track and cyclo-cross
Role
Rider
Professional teams
1926–1929
Automoto
1930–1933
La Française
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (1932)
One-day races and Classics
World Road Race Championships (1928, 1929)
Paris–Roubaix (1927)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1925)
Scheldeprijs (1927)
Paris–Brussels (1928)
Bordeaux–Paris (1927, 1929, 1930)
GP Wolber (1930)
Cyclo-cross
Belgian Championship (1929, 1930)
Track cycling
Belgian Championship Stayers (1934, 1935, 1936)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Belgium
World Championships
1928 Budapest
Elite Road Race
1929 Zürich
Elite Road Race
1930 Liège
Elite Road Race
Men's track cycling
World Championships
1935 Brussels
Motor-paced
1936 Zürich
Motor-paced
Georges Ronsse (4 March 1906, Antwerp - 4 July 1969, Berchem) was a two-time national cyclo-cross and two-time world champion road bicycle racer from Belgium, who raced between 1926 and 1938.[1]
In addition to his several national and world championships, Ronsse won several of the classic races in road cycling including the 1925 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the 1927 Paris–Roubaix, and the 1927, 1929 and 1930 editions of the now-defunct Bordeaux–Paris.[2] He won his first world championship title in 1928 in Budapest with a lead of 19 minutes and 43 seconds over second-placed finisher Herbert Nebe, the largest winning margin in road world championship history.[3]
Ronsse, followed by Alfredo Binda and Nicolas Frantz during the 1929 world championship in Zürich.
In 1932, Ronsse capped off his career with a Stage 4 win at the 1932 Tour de France. After retiring from competition he served as manager of the Belgian national team at the Tour.[4]
^"Georges Ronsse". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
^"Palmarès de Georges Ronsse (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^Fotheringham, Alasdair (19 May 2015). "Giro d'Italia stage 11 preview: Organizers bring back 1968 Worlds finish circuit in Imola". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
^Fotheringham, William (2012). Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson. Random House. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-4464-3587-8.
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National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
assistant manager of the Belgium national team under Dick Advocaat and later Georges Leekens. On 15 May 2012, following the exit of Leekens, Wilmots assumed...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
Scieur (1920) Louis Mottiat (1921–1922) René Vermandel (1923–1924) GeorgesRonsse (1925) Dieudonné Smets (1926) Maurice Raes (1927) Ernest Mottard (1928)...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
and passed them. He rode solo until around three kilometers to go when Georges Pintens caught him. Merckx and Pintens rode to the finish together, where...
1928 Joseph Dervaes Félix Sellier Raymond Decorte 1929 Joseph Wauters GeorgesRonsse Alfred Haemerlinck 1930 Joseph Wauters (2) Joseph Dervaes Alfred Haemerlinck...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
National Sports Merit Award 1928 Louis Crooy and Victor Groenen 1929 GeorgesRonsse 1930 Hyacinte Roosen 1931 René Milhoux and Jules Tacheny 1932 not awarded...
Roger De Neef Octave Dayen André Raynaud 1932 Georges Lemaire René Martin Roger Peix Octave Dayen GeorgesRonsse Joseph Demuysere 1933 Albert Buysse Roger...
André Cluytens, conductor (1905–1967) Jef Maes, composer (1905–1996) GeorgesRonsse, cyclo-cross and road bicycle racer (1906–1969) Maurice van Essche,...
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