Georges Ronsse

George Ronsse
Ronsse in 1928
Personal information
Full nameGeorge Ronsse
Born(1906-03-04)4 March 1906
Antwerp, Belgium
Died4 July 1969(1969-07-04) (aged 63)
Berchem, Belgium
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad, track and cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Professional teams
1926–1929Automoto
1930–1933La 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
Gold medal – first place 1928 Budapest Elite Road Race
Gold medal – first place 1929 Zürich Elite Road Race
Bronze medal – third place 1930 Liège Elite Road Race
Men's track cycling
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1935 Brussels Motor-paced
Bronze medal – third place 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]

  1. ^ "Georges Ronsse". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
  2. ^ "Palmarès de Georges Ronsse (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Fotheringham, William (2012). Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson. Random House. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-4464-3587-8.