Georges Paillard
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Born |
Sainte-Gemmes-d'Andigné, France | 12 February 1904||||||||||||||||
Died |
22 April 1998 94) Angers, France | (aged||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||||
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Georges Auguste Joseph Paillard (12 February 1904 – 22 April 1998) was a French cyclist. He won two UCI Motor-paced World Championships in the professionals division in 1929 and 1932 and finished in second place in 1930.[1][2] Before turning professional in 1923 he competed in sprint at the 1920 Summer Olympics but failed to reach the finals.[3] As a road cyclist, he won the races of Paris-Dieppe and Rouen-Le Havre in 1923 and Critérium des As in 1937.[1]
On 29 March 1937 he set a world speed record at 137.404 km per hour behind a motorcycle pacer on the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry. In 1949, he set the hour record at 96.48 km.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Georges Paillard. memoire-du-cyclisme.net
- ↑ Track Cycling World Championships 2012 to 1893. bikecult.com
- ↑ Georges Paillard Archived 13 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine.. sports-reference.com
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