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Jean Aerts

1907 - 1992

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Jean Aerts (8 September 1907 – 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Aerts has received more than 22,948 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Aerts is the 101st most popular cyclist (down from 76th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 460th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Belgian Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Jean Aerts ranks 101 out of 1,613Before him are Gerben Karstens, Jean Stablinski, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Mario Cipollini, Jean-Pierre Monseré, and René Pottier. After him are Josef Fischer, Dino Bruni, Giovanni Brunero, Julián Berrendero, Michel Pollentier, and Guido Messina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Jean Aerts ranks 214Before him are Amir Sjarifuddin, Vladimir Veksler, Ilia Vekua, Israel Regardie, Gordon Douglas, and Gene Autry. After him are Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, John King Fairbank, Camargo Guarnieri, Giuseppe Occhialini, Zezé Moreira, and Heikki Savolainen. Among people deceased in 1992, Jean Aerts ranks 157Before him are Tony Accardo, Irmã Dulce, Mary Norton, Lisa Fonssagrives, Hal Roach, and Joan Mitchell. After him are Anton Malatinský, Pumpuang Duangjan, Claude Aveline, Musa Anter, Earle Meadows, and Michael Gothard.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean Aerts ranks 529 out of 1,190Before him are Jean Bourgain (1954), Henri Coppens (1930), Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948), Ivo Van Damme (1954), Francis Goya (1946), and Jan Fabre (1958). After him are Simon Leys (1935), Frans Pourbus the Elder (1545), Henri Jaspar (1870), Thomas Vermaelen (1985), Edouard Van Beneden (1846), and Elias M. Stein (1931).

Among CYCLISTS In Belgium

Among cyclists born in Belgium, Jean Aerts ranks 23Before him are Stan Ockers (1920), Maurice De Waele (1896), Maurice Peeters (1882), Romain Maes (1912), Sylvère Maes (1909), and Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948). After him are Michel Pollentier (1951), Marcel Kint (1914), Ferdinand Bracke (1939), Georges Ronsse (1906), Claude Criquielion (1957), and Guido Reybrouck (1941).