Bolesław Napierała
Personal information | |
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Full name | Bolesław Napierała |
Nickname | Road Tiger |
Born | September 1909 Marten, Germany |
Died | 1976 |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Major wins | |
Tour de Pologne (1937, 1939) | |
Bolesław Napierała (September 1909 – 1976) was a Polish cycling champion, twice winner of the Tour de Pologne.[1] He was born in Marten, Germany to a family of Polish immigrants. When Poland regained independence in 1918, the family moved back to their homeland. However, after a few years, the Napieralas left Poland again, to Lens in France. It was there that Boleslaw for the first time saw cyclists, during Tour de France. Fascinated by them, he decided to take up cycling himself, helped by his famous neighbor, Luxemburg cyclist Nicolas Frantz.[2]
Napierala, nicknamed Road Tiger,[3] cycled for the teams Fort Bema Warszawa, and Sarmata Warszawa. He twice won Tour de Pologne (1937, 1939), for 15 days was in leader's jersey, and in the 1937 tour, he was a leader from start to finish.[4] In 1939, a month after winning Tour de Pologne, World War II broke out. After the war, Napierala never returned to his late 1930s form.
References
External links
- Boleslaw Napierala at cyclingranking.com
- A photo of Napierala during the first International Cycling Race Warsaw-Prague-Warsaw (1948)
- Bolesław Napierała at Cycling Archives
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- Feliks Więcek (1928)
- Józef Stefański (1929)
- Jerzy Lipiński (1933)
- Bolesław Napierała (1937)
- Bolesław Napierała (1939)
- Stanisław Grzelak (1947)
- Wacław Wójcik (1948)
- Francesco Locatelli (1949)
- Wacław Wójcik (1952)
- Mieczysław Wilczewski (1953)
- Marian Więckowski (1954-1956)
- Henryk Kowalski (1957)
- Bogusław Fornalczyk (1958)
- Wiesław Podobas (1959)
- Roger Diercken (1960)
- Henryk Kowalski (1961)
- Jan Kudra (1962)
- Stanisław Gazda (1963)
- Rajmund Zieliński (1964)
- Józef Beker (1965)
- Józef Gawliczek (1966)
- Andrzej Bławdzin (1967)
- Jan Kudra (1968)
- Wojciech Matusiak (1969)
- Jan Stachura (1970)
- Stanisław Szozda (1971)
- José Viejo (1972)
- Lucjan Lis (1973)
- André Delcroix (1974)
- Tadeusz Mytnik (1975)
- Janusz Kowalski (1976)
- Lechosław Michalak (1977)
- Jan Brzeźny (1978)
- Henryk Charucki (1979)
- Czesław Lang (1980)
- Jan Brzeźny (1981)
- Andrzej Mierzejewski (1982)
- Tadeusz Krawczyk (1983)
- Andrzej Mierzejewski (1984)
- Marek Leśniewski (1985)
- Marek Kulas (1986)
- Zbigniew Piątek (1987)
- Andrzej Mierzejewski (1988)
- Marek Wrona (1989)
- Mieczysław Karłowicz (1990)
- Dariusz Baranowski (1991-1993)
- Maurizio Fondriest (1994)
- Zbigniew Spruch (1995)
- Viatcheslav Djavanian (1996)
- Rolf Järmann (1997)
- Sergei Ivanov (1998)
- Tomasz Brożyna (1999)
- Piotr Przydział (2000)
- Ondřej Sosenka (2001)
- Laurent Brochard (2002)
- Cezary Zamana (2003)
- Ondřej Sosenka (2004)
- Kim Kirchen (2005)
- Stefan Schumacher (2006)
- Johan Vansummeren (2007)
- Jens Voigt (2008)
- Alessandro Ballan (2009)
- Dan Martin (2010)
- Peter Sagan (2011)
- Moreno Moser (2012)
- Pieter Weening (2013)
- Rafał Majka (2014)
- Ion Izagirre (2015)
- Tim Wellens (2016)
- Dylan Teuns (2017)
- Michał Kwiatkowski (2018)
- Pavel Sivakov (2019)
- Remco Evenepoel (2020)
- João Almeida (2021)
- Ethan Hayter (2022)
- Matej Mohorič (2023)
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