Briek Schotte
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| Full name | Alberic Schotte | |||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Briek | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 September 1919 Kanegem, Belgium |
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
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| World Champion cycling (1948, 1950) | ||||||||||||||||
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Alberic "Briek" Schotte (born Kanegem, West Flanders, 7 September 1919 – died Kortrijk, 4 April 2004) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, one of the champions of the 1940s and 1950s. His stamina earned him the nickname "Iron Briek" (IJzeren Briek).
He was world champion in 1948 and 1950, won the last stage of the 1947 Tour de France and finished second in the epic 1948 Tour, behind Gino Bartali. He twice won the Tour of Flanders (1942, 1948), Paris–Tours (1946, 1947) and Paris–Brussels (1946, 1952). He also won the inaugural Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, a season-long competition to identify the world's best road rider, in 1948.
After retirement in 1959, he was a team coach for 30 years, mostly for Flandria . He died on the day of the 2004 Tour of Flanders. The commentators during the race said "God must have been one of Briek's greatest fans".
Palmarès
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- 1940
- Ransart — Beaumont — Ransart
- 1941
- Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- Merelbeke
- 1942
- Tour of Flanders
- 1944
- Wetteren
- 1945
- Nokere Koerse
- Tielt-Antwerpen-Tielt
- Olsene
- 1946
- Mandel — Leie — Schelde
- Paris–Tours
- Tour de Luxembourg
- Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
- Paris–Brussels
- 1947
- Paris–Tours
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 21
- 1948
- Desgrange-Colombo
- Tour of Flanders
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World road champion - Tour de France:
- 2nd place overall classification
- 1948
- GP Stad Vilvoorde
- 1950
- Aalst
- Gent–Wevelgem
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- Montenaken
- 1951
- Vijfbergenomloop
- 1952
- Omloop der Zuid-West-Vlaamse Bergen
- Paris–Brussels
- 1953
- Dwars door Vlaanderen
- Grote Bevrijdingsprijs
- 1954
- Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen — Koolskamp
- Omloop der drie Provinciën
- Soignies
- Oedelem
- 1955
- Gent–Wevelgem
- Dwars door Vlaanderen
- Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen
- 1956
- GP Bali
- Lauwe
- Boulogne-sur-Mer
- 1957
- Wervik
- Langemark
- 1958
- De Panne
External links
- Briek Schotte at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Official Tour de France results for Alberic Schotte
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