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Gerard Debaets

Gérard Debaets
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Debaets in 1913
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Full name Gérard Debaets
Born (1899-04-17)17 April 1899
Heule, Belgium
Died 27 April 1959(1959-04-27) (aged 60)
North Haledon, New Jersey, United States
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Role Rider

Gérard Debaets (17 April 1899 – 27 April 1959) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1924 and the Belgian national road race title in 1925. He also specialized in track cycling, winning a total of 18 six-day events, including six times the most prestigious Six Days of New York. Debaets was a resident of Fair Lawn and North Haledon, New Jersey, where he died in 1959 of a heart attack.


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