Frank Kramer
Kramer won national amateur titles in his second and third year
of racing. He won the national championship in 1901 and raced successfully
in Europe in 1905 and 1906, winning thirty-one races out of forty-three
starts. In 1912 Kramer won the world professional sprint championship
at the Newark Velodrome. Frank Kramer won 16 consecutive national
championships from 1901 to 1916. His amazing string of championships
was broken in 1917, but, he regained the championship twice in
1918 and finally in 1921 at the age of 41.
Alf Goullet
Among the world's greatest cyclists, Goullet won more than 400
races on three continents. He set numerous world records including
the distance record for a six-day race and five other records from
two-thirds of a mile to 50 miles. Alf won a total of 15 six-day
races, including 8 at Madison Square Garden.
Art Longsjo
Longsjo was the first athlete to compete in the summer and winter
Olympics in the same year in 1956. He won all three races in his
first competitive event at age 21. Art was two time winner of the
Quebec to Montreal Road Race. He died in an auto accident in 1959
amid a streak of thirteen consecutive victories.
Jack Disney
Disney was born in 1930 and began his racing career in 1953. He
won his first five consecutive national Amateur Championships in
1954. Jack won the National Senior Sprint Championship in 1966
and again in 1968. He was the silver medalist at the National Senior
Sprint Championships in 1973. He was a member of the US Olympic
Team in 1956, 1964 and 1968. He won a silver medal in the 1959
Pan Am Games. Proving his athletic versatility Jack made two Olympic
squads in speed skating.
Sheila Young-Ochowicz
A speed skater at heart, Sheila entered her first race in 1965,
falling, breaking her arm and almost ending her career before it
began. In 1972, Sheila won a bronze medal at the world cycling
match race championships in Marseilles, France. The following year
she became only the second American to wear the yellow jersey at
the world championships. She placed third in the 1975 world championships
behind Hall of Famer Sue Novara. In 1976 Sheila speed-skated to
gold, silver and bronze at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics and subsequently
led Novara to a one-two finish in the world cycling sprint championships.
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