Jean Rossius
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![]() | |
Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Jean Rossius |
Born | Soumagne, Belgium | 27 December 1890
Died | 2 May 1966 | (aged 75)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Major wins | |
5 stages Tour de France Belgian National Road Race Champion |
Jean Rossius (27 December 1890, Cerexhe-Heuseux, Soumagne – 2 May 1966) was a Belgian road racing cyclist who won five stages in total in the Tour de France. In the 1914 Tour de France he finished in fourth place in the overall classification, his best finishing.
Major results
- 1914
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 2 and 9
- Leading general classification for 4 days (joint with Philippe Thys)
- 1919
- Liège-Malmedy-Liège
Belgian National Road Race Championships
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 1[1]
- 1920
- Retinne-Spa-Retinne
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 7 and 15
- 1922
- Paris-Saint-Étienne
References
- ^ Rossius was the winner of the first stage, but received a 30 minute penalty for helping Philippe Thys illegally, therefore he was not leading the general classification after stage one.
External links
- Jean Rossius at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Jean Rossius
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from September 2020
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- 1890 births
- 1966 deaths
- People from Soumagne
- Belgian male cyclists
- Belgian Tour de France stage winners
- Cyclists from Liège Province
- All stub articles
- Belgian cycling biography, 1890s birth stubs