Guillem Timoner, six-time world champion and legend of track cycling, dies
He six times track cycling world champion, Guillem Timonerhas died this Thursday at the age of 97 in his homeland of Felanitx (Mallorca) leaving behind a sporting career that has triumphs on European circuits in the 1950s and 1960s, as confirmed by the Cycling Federation of the Balearic Islands.
The death of one of the legends of world cycling has shocked Mallorcan sport, which is very aware of the six world titles he won in the middle distance after a motorcycle: (Milan, 1955), (Amsterdam, 1959), (Leipzig, 1960), (Milan, 1962), (Paris, 1964) and (San Sebastián, 1965).
He also won victories in the Nations Grand Prixhe Majorcan Grand Prixhe European Grand Prix and those of Antwerp, the Ciutat de Palma.
Once removed, helmsman He poured all his experience into the position of Spanish track coach between 1971 and 1978, a period that coincided with the Munich Olympic Games (1972).
Source: Eitb
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