Gérard Debaets

Gerard Debaets (17 April 1898 – 27 April 1959) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1924 and 1927 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.

Major results Road

1923 1st Tour of Flanders independents 1924 1st Tour of Flanders 1st París-Arrás Tour 1st Overall Critérium des Aiglons 1st Stages 1 & 2 2nd Paris–Brussels 2nd Jemeppe–Bastogne–Jemeppe 4th Overall Tour of Belgium 8th Scheldeprijs 10th Paris–Roubaix 1925

1st Paris–Brussels 2nd Bordeaux–Paris 3rd Sclessin–Houffalize–Sclessin 4th Giro della Provincia di Milano 5th GP Wolber 6th Paris–Roubaix 1926 1st Brussels–Paris 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1927 1st Tour of Flanders 2nd Hannover–Bremen–Hannover 3rd Sclessin–Houffalize–Sclessin 1928 2nd Criterium des As

Track 1924

1925 1st Six Days of New York-2 (with Alfons Goossens) 1927 1st Six Days of Detroit (with Anthony Beckman) 1928 1st Six Days of New York-1 (with Franco Giorgetti) 1st Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Anthony Beckman) 3rd Six Days of Chicago-3 (with George Dempsey) 1929 1st Six Days of New York-2 (with Franco Giorgetti) 1st Six Days of New York-3 (with Franco Giorgetti) 1930 1st Six Days of New York-1 (with Gaetano Belloni) 1st Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Anthony Beckman) 1931 3rd Six Days of New York-2 (with Franco Giorgetti) 3rd Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Franco Giorgetti) 1932 3rd Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Alfred Letourneur) 3rd Six Days of Philadelphia-2 (with Alfred Letourneur) 1933 1st Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Alfred Letourneur) 1934 1st Six Days of New York-2 (with Alfred Letourneur) 1st Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Alfred Letourneur) 1st Six Days of Buffalo-2 (with Alfred Letourneur) 1st Six Days of Philadelphia (with Alfred Letourneur) 1st Six Days of Montreal (with Alfred Letourneur) 1st Six Days of Toronto-1 (with Alfred Letourneur) 1935 2nd Six Days of New York-1 (with Ewald Wissel) 1936 3rd Six Days of New York-2 (with Alvaro Giorgetti) 1937 3rd Six Days of Buffalo-2 (with Tino Reboli) 1938 3rd Six Days of Chicago-1 (with Tino Reboli) 3rd Six Days of Chicago-2 (with Tino Reboli) 3rd Six Days of Chicago-3 (with Marcel Guimbretiere)