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Born | Deurne, Belgium | 10 June 1922|||||||||||||||||
Died | 30 April 2004 Arendonk, Belgium | (aged 81)|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||||||||
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Adolph Verschueren (also Adolf; 10 June 1922 – 30 April 2004) was a Belgian cyclist. As a road cyclist, he won the Tour of Flanders in 1942 and the sixth stage of Tour de Suisse in 1949. [1]
As a track cyclist, he competed in motor-paced racing in the professionals category. He won the European championships in 1951, 1953, 1956 and 1958 and three consecutive world championships in 1952–1954. [2] He finished in second place in the European championships in 1952, 1954 and 1955. In 1954 he set a world record in 1 hour race (58.85 km). [1] He also finished second in the 1947 Paris–Roubaix [3] and rode in the 1948 Tour de France. [4]
He is not related to Theo Verschueren, another motor-paced racing world champion from Belgium.