Georges Ronsse

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.

George Ronsse

Ronsse in 1928
Personal information
Full name	George Ronsse
Born	(1906-03-04)4 March 1906 Antwerp, Belgium
Died	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

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. 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.

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.

Major results

Road race

1925

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Schaal Sels

6th Overall Tour of Belgium Independents

1st Stage 6

1926

3rd Championship of Flanders

3rd Omloop der Leiestreek

1927

1st Paris–Roubaix

1st Bordeaux–Paris

1st Scheldeprijs

1st Circuit of North-Belgium

3rd Paris–Tours

6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

9th Tour of Flanders

1928

1st Road race, UCI World Championships

1st Paris–Brussels

1st Rupelmonde

2nd Paris–Roubaix

3rd Circuit de Paris (fr)

1929

1st Road race, UCI World Championships

1st Bordeaux–Paris

2nd Belgian National Road Race Championships

2nd Tour of Flanders

2nd Paris–Roubaix

3rd Paris–Tours

1930

1st Bordeaux–Paris

1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs

1st GP Wolber

1st Antwerp–Brussels–Antwerp

2nd Circuit du Midi

3rd Road race, UCI World Championships

6th Paris–Tours

6th Paris–Roubaix

1931

2nd Circuit de Paris (fr)

3rd Paris–Lille (fr)

3rd GP Wolber

4th Paris–Roubaix

1932

Tour de France

Winner stage 4

5th place overall classification

2nd Paris–Roubaix

3rd Paris–Brussels

1933

1st GP Stad Antwerpen

3rd Overall Tour of Belgium

1st Stage 1 & 4

Cyclo cross

1927

2nd National Championships

1928

2nd National Championships

2nd Critérium International de Cyclo-cross (fr)

1929

1st National Championships

1930

1st National Championships

2nd Critérium International de Cyclo-cross (fr)

1931

3rd Critérium International de Cyclo-cross (fr)

1933

1st Cyclo-cross championship of Antwerp

Track Cycling

1934

1st Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)

1935

1st Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)

3rd Motor-paced, UCI Track World Championships, Brussels

1936

1st Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)

3rd Motor-paced, UCI Track World Championships, Zürich

3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Adolf Schön)

1937

3rd Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)

3rd Six Days of Antwerp (with Maurice Depauw)

1938

2nd Motor-paced Belgian National Track Championships (fr)

External links

• Georges Ronsse at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Official Tour de France results for Georges Ronsse