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20th Century Timeline
  
   
 

By Barry Boyce, CyclingRevealed
Historian

 

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CyclingRevealed offers 100 years of bicycle racing against a backdrop of World history. The 20th Century saw the development of bicycle racing throughout the World. This CyclingRevealed Timeline offers a brief description of the historical events that shaped the World and helped define bicycle racing as major sporting event.
  

1900 to 1909:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Pierre de Coubertin

1910 to 1919:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Jim Thorpe

1920 to 1929:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Johnny Weismuller

1930 to 1939:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Jesse Owens
1930 |1931 |1932 |1933 |1934 |1935 |1936 |1937 |1938 |1939

1940 to 1949:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Fausto Coppi
1940-1945 |1946 |1947 |1948 |1949

1950 to 1959:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Juan Manuel Fangio
1950 |1951 |1952 |1953 |1954 |1955 |1956 |1957 |1958 |1959

1960 to 1969:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Pele
1960 |1961 |1962 |1963 |1964 |1965 |1966 |1967 |1968 |1969

1970 to 1979:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Eddy Merckx
1970 |1971 |1972 |1973 |1974 |1975 |1976 |1977 |1978 |1979

1980 to 1989:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Nadia Comaneci
1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989

1990 to 1999:
L'Equipe's International Sports Figure of the Decade: Carl Lewis
1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 |1994 |1995 |1996 |1997 |1998 |1999

Grand Champions Living and Dead

 
       
         
         
         
   


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