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Belgium

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, 31 January 1907 - Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires

Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires

Florencio Varela is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Florencio Varela Partido. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration....

Argentina

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, 28 November 1998) was a Belgian Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...

rider in the years 1928-1940. Maurice Seynaeve won the Belgian National Cyclo-cross Championships

Belgian National Cyclo-cross Championships

The Belgian National Cyclo-cross Championships were first held in 1910, and have been held annually since 1921 by the Royal Belgian Cycling Federation ....

from 1933 to 1937. Maurice Seynaeve also participated in classical road races like Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders

Tour of Flanders

The Tour of Flanders is a Flanders Classics road cycling race held in Belgium every spring, a week before the Paris–Roubaix road race. It is part of the UCI World Tour and one of the so-called monuments of the European professional calendar. It is the most important cycling race in Flanders...

- 3'rd place, 1928) and Ronde van België (Tour of Belgium

Tour of Belgium

The Tour of Belgium is a four-day bicycle race which is held annually in Belgium.It was held annually between 1908 and 1981, except during both world wars. Between 1982 and 1990 several of races were not organised and none at all during the decade 1991 to 2001...

3'rd place Stage 1, 1931 ).

A series of pictures from the estate of Helena and Maurice Seynaeve can be found here.
In the pictures are other riders from the same period including Jean Aerts

Jean Aerts

Jean Aerts was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur and professional road race championships...

, Gustave Degreef, Eloi Meulenberg

Eloi Meulenberg

Eloi Meulenberg was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his gold medal in the Elite race of the 1937 Road World Championships and his 9 stage wins in the Tour de France.- Palmares :19351936...

and Kamiel Vermassen