Re: [CR]Tour de France 1932, surviving rider

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

To: 520061944949-0001@t-online.de
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Tour de France 1932, surviving rider
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:02:08 -0500
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Here are the 10 German participants ... is his name listed?

ALTENBURGER Karl 1932 (48ème) GEYER Ludwig 1932 (22ème) KUTZBACH Willi 1932 (non classé) MULLER Hermann 1932 (non classé) OLBOETER Karl 1932 (non classé) RISCH Rudolph 1932 (57ème) SIERONSKI Herbert 1932 (29ème) STOEPEL Kurt 1932 (2ème) THIERBACH Oskar 1932 (7ème) UMBENHAUER Georg 1932 (56ème)

Also:

BULLA Max 1932 (19ème) - AUT

ANTENEN Georges 1932 (29ème) - SUI BUCHI Albert 1932 (11ème) - SUI BUCHI Alfred 1932 (36ème) - SUI BULA Alfred 1932 (41ème) - SUI ERNE August 1932 (55ème) - SUI HOFER Ernest 1932 (non classé) - SUI PIPOZ Roger 1932 (non classé) - SUI VANZENRIED Turel 1932 (non classé) - SUI

At 03 February 2003, Toni.Theilmeier@t-online.de (toni theilmeier) wrote:
>Hi,
>I am not into statistics, but there must surely be someone among the CR
>crowd who knows who came 16th in the 1932 TdF.
>
>I have by pure coincidence met an elderly gentleman (whose wife does not
>want him to be contacted because he is getting easily confused) in a place
>near to where I work who states vehemently that he was this 16th, and
>that he was in one team with Kurt Stoepel, the first German to do well
>in the Tour.
>
>First of course I would very much like to know whether I really shook
>the hand of a thirties TdF rider, and secondly he lost all his mementoes
>about his racing carreer in the war, their flat was bombed. So if anyone
>who has any pictures, newspaper cuttings or so about him would be so kind
>as to help me, and consequentially the elderly gentleman, out with photocopies
>/ Xeroxes or jpegs, I would be most grateful. Please do not wait too long,
>he has less and less clear moments.
>
>Thank you very much,
>
> Toni Theilmeier, Osnabrueck, Germany.
>_______________________________________________
>

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