Patrick Sercu

Patrick Sercu

Sercu in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Patrick Sercu
Born	(1944-06-27) 27 June 1944 Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Track and road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Major wins
Tour de France green jersey winner 1974
Medal record Representing  Belgium Track cycling Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo 1000 m time trial World Championships 1963 Liege Sprint 1967 Amsterdam Sprint 1969 Anetwerpen Sprint 1965 San Sebastian Sprint 1968 Rome Sprint
Infobox last updated on 19 June 2007

Patrick Sercu (born 27 June 1944) is a retired Belgian cyclist who was active on the road and track between 1961 and 1983. On track, he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as three world titles in the sprint, in 1963, 1967 and 1969. On the road, he earned the green jersey in the 1974 Tour de France. Sercu is the record holder for the number of six-day track race victories, having won 88 events out of 223 starts between 1961 and 1983; several of these wins were with cycling great Eddy Merckx.^[1] He also won six stages at the Tour de France and eleven stages at the Giro d’Italia.^[2][3]

Biography

In 1962, aged 18, Sercu won his first national titles, in the sprint and madison events. Two years later he was the star attraction at the Manchester Wheelers' Club Race Meet at the Fallowfield track in Manchester.^[4]

After retiring from competitions Sercu became organizer of road races^[2] and director of the Six Days of Ghent and the former Six Days of Hasselt.^[5][6]

Career achievements

Major results

Sercu in 1967

Sercu with wife in 1967

Sercu in 1998

• Olympic kilometre 1964
• Olympic sprint 1963, 1967, 1969 (2e: 1968)
• 500 m flying start record: 1964 (29" 66)
• Kilometre standing start record: 1964, 1972 (1' 06" 76)
• Kilometre flying start record: 1967 (1' 02" 46), 1973 (1' 02" 40)
• European omnium champion: 11 wins (2nd: 1979)
• European madison champion: six wins
• European derny champion: one win
• National sprint champion: seven wins
• National omnium champion: 15 wins
• National madison champion: 14 wins (seven with Eddy Merckx, one with Rik van Looy)
• National derny champion: one win
• Flanders road champion: 1972
• West Flanders road champion: 1975
• Tour of Sardinia: 1970
• Cagliari-Sassari: 1972
• Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne: 1977
• Criterium Zolder: 1965
• Criterium Bourcefranc: 1966
• Criterium Tortoretto: 1971
• Criterium Lignano 1972
• Criterium Rouergue: 1974
• Criterium Nantes : 1976
• Criterium Mol : 1980
• Criterium Hank: 1978
• Memorial Tom Simpson: 1967
• Grand Prix de la Banque: 1971
• Grand Prix Union de Dortmund : 1979
• Circuit of Central Flanders: 1968
• Circuit de la Vallée de la Lys: 1969
• Circuit des 11 Villes: 1973
• Circuit of the Flemish Ardennes: 1975
• Circuit du port de Dunkerque: 1975
• Circuit des Régions Frontières: 1978
• Circuit of South-West Flanders: 1980
• 6 stages Tour de France
• 11 stages Tour of Italy
• Points Tour de France: 1974
• Points Tour Méditerranéen: 1977
• Points Dauphiné Libéré: 1977

Six-day wins

Championships

Italian classics

Non-Italian classics

Stage races

Other races

Track

Teams

• 1964 – Solo-Superia
• 1964 – Bertin-Porter 39-Milremo
• 1965 – Solo-Superia
• 1966 – Solo-Superia
• 1967 – Flandria-Declerck
• 1968 – Faema
• 1969 – Faema
• 1970 – Dreher
• 1971 – Dreher
• 1972 – Dreher
• 1973 – Brooklyn
• 1974 – Brooklyn
• 1975 – Brooklyn
• 1976 – Brooklyn
• 1977 – FIAT France
• 1978 – Marc-Zeepcentrale-Superia
• 1979 – Marc-Zeepcentrale-Superia
• 1980 – Marc-Carlos-VRD
• 1981 – IWC-IMEX
• 1982 – IWC-IMEX
• 1983 – IMEX-Neuhaus

References

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UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's sprint
1895: Robert Protin 1896: Paul Bourillon 1897: Willi Arend 1898: Georges Banker 1899: Marshall Taylor 1900: Edmond Jacquelin 1901–03: Thorvald Ellegaard 1904: Iver Lawson 1905: Gabriel Poulain 1906: Thorvald Ellegaard 1907: Emile Friol 1908: Thorvald Ellegaard 1909: Victor Dupre 1910: Emile Friol 1911: Thorvald Ellegaard 1912: Frank Louis Kramer 1913: Walter Rütt 1920: Bob Spears 1921–24: Piet Moeskops 1925: Ernst Kaufmann 1926: Piet Moeskops 1927–30: Lucien Michard 1931: Willy Hansen 1932–37: Jef Scherens 1938: Arie van Vliet 1939: Medal not awarded 1946: Jan Derksen 1947: Jef Scherens 1948: Arie van Vliet 1949–51: Reg Harris 1952: Oscar Plattner 1953: Arie van Vliet 1954: Reg Harris 1955–56: Antonio Maspes 1957: Jan Derksen 1958: Michel Rousseau 1959–62: Antonio Maspes 1963: Sante Gaiardoni 1964: Antonio Maspes 1965–66: Giuseppe Beghetto 1967: Patrick Sercu 1968: Giuseppe Beghetto 1969: Patrick Sercu 1970: Gordon Johnson 1971: Leijn Loevesijn 1972–73: Robert Van Lancker 1974: Peder Pedersen 1975–76: John Nicholson 1977–86: Koichi Nakano 1987: Nobuyuki Tawara 1988: Stephen Pate 1989: Claudio Golinelli 1990: Michael Hübner 1991: Carey Hall Medal not awarded 1992: Michael Hübner 1993: Gary Neiwand 1994: Marty Nothstein 1995: Darryn Hill 1996–98: Florian Rousseau 1999: Laurent Gané 2000: Jan van Eijden 2001: Arnaud Tournant 2002: Sean Eadie 2003: Laurent Gané 2004: Theo Bos 2005: René Wolff 2006–07: Theo Bos 2008: Chris Hoy 2009–10: Grégory Baugé 2011: Jason Kenny 2012: Grégory Baugé 2013: Stefan Bötticher 2014: François Pervis 2015: Grégory Baugé 2016: Jason Kenny