Oscar Egg

Oscar Egg

Personal information
Full name	Oscar Egg
Born	2 March 1890(1890-03-02) Schlatt, Switzerland
Died	9 February 1961(1961-02-09) (aged 70) Nice, France
Team information
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1911 1912–1914 1915–1916 1917–1919 1920–1926	Griffon Peugeot Individual Bianchi Individual
Major wins
set the hour record 3 times 2 stages Tour de France (1914) 1 stage Giro d'Italia (1919) Paris Tours (1914) Milano–Torino (1917)
Infobox last updated on 27 July 2007

Oscar Egg (2 March 1890 in Schlatt, Switzerland - 9 February 1961 in Nice, France) was a Swiss track and road bicycle racer. He captured the world hour record three times before the First World War. He also won major road races and stages of the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

The hour record

Between 1907 and 1914 Oscar Egg and Marcel Berthet improved the hour record six times between them. Egg's 1914 mark of 44.247 km then stood until 1933. Egg set all three of his records at the Vélodrome Buffalo in Paris. The track was a 333m outdoor track surfaced with concrete. The sequence was as follows:

• 20 Jun 1907, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 41.520 km
• 22 Aug 1912, Oscar Egg, Paris, 42.122 km
• 7 Aug 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 42.741 km
• 21 Aug 1913, Oscar Egg, Paris, 43.525 km
• 20 Sep 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 43.775 km
• 18 Aug 1914, Oscar Egg, Paris, 44.247 km

Only Chris Boardman has equalled Egg and Berthet's feat of taking the record three times.

Road racing

1911

Tour de France:

Winner stages 8, 10 and 11 (independents category)

1914

 Switzerland national road race championship

Paris–Tours

Tour de France:

Winner stages 4 and 5

1917

Milano–Torino

Milano-Modena

1919

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stage 3

Track racing

Major track victories include:

1914

Six days of Chicago

1915

Six days of Chicago (with Francesco Verri)

1916

Six days of New York (with Marcel Dupuy)

 Switzerland national track championship

1921

He defeated Alfred Goullet on July 4, 1921 at the Newark Velodrome in Newark, New Jersey^[1] Six day race in New York with Piet van Kempen.

Six days of Paris (with Georges Sérès père)

1922

Six Days of Ghent (with Marcel Buysse)

1923

Six days of Paris (with Piet Van Kempen)

Six days of Chicago (with Maurice Brocco)

1924

Six days of Chicago (with Alfred Grenda)

Bol d'Or

1926

 Switzerland national track sprint championship

Records
Preceded by Marcel Berthet	UCI hour record (42.122 km) 22 August 1912-7 August 1913	Succeeded by Marcel Berthet
Preceded by Marcel Berthet	UCI hour record (43.525 km) 21 August 1913-20 September 1913	Succeeded by Marcel Berthet
Preceded by Marcel Berthet	UCI hour record (44.247 km) 18 August 1914-25 August 1933	Succeeded by Jan van Hout

References

1. ^ "Defeats Goullet in Australian Pursuit Race at Newark Velodrome". New York Times. July 4, 1921. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D16F63D5A1B7A93C6A9178CD85F458285F9. Retrieved 2010-10-03. "Oscar Egg, the gritty Swiss bicycle star, defeated Alfred Goullet, all-around champion America, in a hard fought Australian pursuit race at the Velodrome here today. Egg and Goullet fought for three..." 

External links

• Oscar Egg's palmares at memoire-du-cyclisme.net (French)
• Oscar Egg at the Cycling Hall of Fame
• Official Tour de France results for Oscar Egg
• Oscar Egg profile at Cycling Archives
• UCI official records page
• Oscar Egg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

Persondata
Name	Egg, Oscar
Alternative names
Short description	Swiss racing cyclist
Date of birth	2 March 1890
Place of birth	Schlatt bei Winterthur, Switzerland
Date of death	9 February 1961
Place of death	Nice, France