Oscar Egg
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Oscar Egg in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
- 9 February 1961 in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) was a Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
track
Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....
and road bicycle racer. He captured the world hour record
Hour record
The hour record for bicycles is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle. There are several records. The most famous is for upright bicycles meeting the requirements of the Union Cycliste Internationale . It is one of the most prestigious in cycling...
three times before the First World War. He also won major road races and stages of the Tour de France
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
and Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...
.
The hour record
Between 1907 and 1914 Oscar Egg and Marcel Berthet improved the hour recordHour record
The hour record for bicycles is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle. There are several records. The most famous is for upright bicycles meeting the requirements of the Union Cycliste Internationale . It is one of the most prestigious in cycling...
six times between them. Egg's 1914 mark of 44.247 km then stood until 1933. Egg set all three of his records at the Vélodrome Buffalo
Vélodrome Buffalo
The Vélodrome Buffalo and Stade Buffalo were cycling tracks in Paris. The first existed from 1893 until World War I, the second from 1922 until 1957....
in Paris. The track was a 333m outdoor track surfaced with concrete. The sequence was as follows:
- 20 Jun 1907, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 41.520 km
- 22 Aug 1912, Oscar Egg, Paris, 42.122 km
- 7 Aug 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 42.741 km
- 21 Aug 1913, Oscar Egg, Paris, 43.525 km
- 20 Sep 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 43.775 km
- 18 Aug 1914, Oscar Egg, Paris, 44.247 km
Only Chris Boardman
Chris Boardman
Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...
has equalled Egg and Berthet's feat of taking the record three times.
Road racing
1911- Tour de France1911 Tour de FranceThe 1911 Tour de France was the 9th Tour de France, taking place from 2 to 30 July 1911. It was composed of 15 stages over , ridden at an average speed of 27.322 km/h. The results were computed by giving each rider points according to his finishing position on each stage, and the rider with...
:- Winner stages 8, 10 and 11 (independents category)
1914
- national road race championship
- Paris–Tours
- Tour de France1914 Tour de FranceThe 1914 Tour de France was the 12th Tour de France, taking place June 28 to July 26, 1914. The total distance was and the average speed of the riders was . It was won by the Belgian cyclist Philippe Thys....
:- Winner stages 4 and 5
1917
- Milano–Torino
- Milano-Modena
1919
- Giro d'Italia1919 Giro d'ItaliaThe 1919 Giro d'Italia of cycling was held from 21 May to 8 June 1919, consisting of 10 stages for a total of 2,984 km, ridden at an average speed of 26.440 km/h. It was won by Costante Girardengo, first cyclist to hold the lead from the first to the last stage....
:- Winner stage 3
Track racing
Major track victories include:1914
- Six days of Chicago
1915
- Six days of Chicago (with Francesco VerriFrancesco VerriFrancesco Verri was an Italian track cycling racer who competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics.At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens he won three gold medals.-External links:*...
)
1916
- Six days of New York (with Marcel Dupuy)
- national track championship
1921
- He defeated Alfred Goullet on July 4, 1921 at the Newark VelodromeNewark VelodromeThe Newark Velodrome was a state-of-the-art bicycle track measuring six laps to the mile, or over 300 yards around. The track was built in 1907 and was located on South Orange Avenue in Newark, New Jersey...
in Newark, New JerseyNewark, New JerseyNewark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...
Six day race in New York with Piet van Kempen. - Six days of Paris (with Georges Sérès père)
1922
- Six Days of GhentSix Days of GhentThe Six Days of Ghent is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium.It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's Citadelpark.The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred by the death of one of the riders...
(with Marcel BuysseMarcel BuysseMarcel Buysse was a Belgian racing cyclist.After finishing fourth in the 1912 Tour de France, Buysse led the general classification for two days until a broken handlebar cost him dearly...
)
1923
- Six days of Paris (with Piet Van Kempen)
- Six days of Chicago (with Maurice BroccoMaurice BroccoMaurice Brocco was a French professional road bicycle racer between 1906 and 1927. In 1911 he won a stage in the Tour de France. He participated six times in the Tour de France, but finished the race only once. In his later career he was successful in six-day races.In the 1911 Tour de France,...
)
1924
- Six days of Chicago (with Alfred Grenda)
- Bol d'OrBol d'Or cycle raceThe Bol d'Or was a bicycle track race that ran in France between 1894 and 1950. It was a paced, 24 hour endurance event. It has been won by several notable cyclists including Constant Huret , the Australian Hubert Opperman and three time hour record breaker Oscar Egg...
1926
- national track sprint championship