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}} Daniel Morelon (born 24 July 1944) is a retired French racing cyclist who was active between 1963 and 1980. He is a triple Olympic champion, eight times world champion,〔〔 and a knight of the Legion d'Honneur. Morelon was a police officer before becoming a cycling coach. == Cycling career == Morelon came into cycling after going to races with his two brothers. He said: :My father was mad about cycling but he didn't have the chance to race, except a couple of times in secret. It was he who gave the vuris to my elder brothers. At 10, I went to see them racing and I rode 100 km on my mother's bike.〔FFCT magazine, 2005〕 He joined the Vélo Club Bressan at 15. He won 11 races in the youth class and came second nine times out of 25 races. He came third in the national youth championship on the road and moved to the track after a training session in Paris. :I discovered the track by chance, during the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. I saw Gaiardoni win. I said to myself 'I like that.' My first race on the track was the Rustine kilometre in Paris, in 1962. That was on the Cipale track.〔The Piste Municipale, also known as the Jacques Anquetil stadium, where the Tour de France finished after the closure of the Parc des Princes and before the move to the Champs Elysées〕 I'd never ridden on a track. It was Toto Gérardin who taught me, over a week. I finished second behind Pierre Trentin I remember that I rode all the sprints out of the saddle in the straight. And I fell off. I'd forgotten that you can't freewheel with a fixed gear. I rode the track again the following year and I was contacted for a tournament between France and Germany... in the team pursuit. That wasn't surprising because I was still considered a roadman at that time.〔 Morelon was called up to the army in November 1963. He joined the national sports institute, INSEP, and began training at an international level. :It was in 1964 that I specialised in the sprint. The click was my victory in the Grand Prix of Copenhagen over Patrick Sercu. I'd beaten the world champion; I could beat anybody in the world.〔 Morelon and Trentin were matched for the bronze medal in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964. Trentin was unsettled by his disqualification against the Italian, Pettenela, in the semi-final and lost to Morelon after forcing him to a third ride.〔Robert Parienté and Guy Lagorce (2000). ''La Fabuleuse Histoire des Jeux olympiques'', Minerva. ISBN 978-2-8307-0583-6.〕 The opposition between Trentin and Morelon continued until 1966. Trentin specialised in the kilometre, taking the world championship in 1966. Morelon took the sprint championship. The two then combined to ride the tandem sprint. Trentin said: "I'm the second fastest in the sprint and the fastest in the kilometre. Who's going to beat us on a tandem? 〔68, l'année championne du siècle, L'Équipe Légendes〕 Morelon took the world title the following year, again ahead of Trentin, but despite Trentin's confidence they failed in the tandem final. The 1968 Olympic Games were at altitude in Mexico. Trentin, suffering from the height, saw Morelon record the best kilometre time in training. The team manager, Louis Gérardin, nevertheless named Trentin for the event and he won in a world record. Two days later, Morelon easily won the sprint against Giordano Turrini. Two days later, Trentin and Morelon won the tandem.〔 Morelon took his third world title in 1969 and a silver on the tandem. He repeated the performance in 1970, but with Gérard Quintyn as tandem partner. Trentin and Morelon teamed up again for the tandem in 1971, and took the bronze. Morelon won his fifth sprint title.〔 Morelon was favourite at his third Olympic Games. He disposed of the Australian John Nicholson in two rides, although the second needed a photo-finish. Morelon took further world titles in 1973 and 1975.〔〔 At his fourth Olympics, in Montreal, Morelon faced the unknown Slovak Anton Tkac in the final. He lost the first round after leading but being passed on the line. He won the second and was outridden in the third. The Slovak tried a long sprint, longer than Morelon could believe. "I couldn't believe that he was serious," Morelon said. "I was too far back. I didn't realise what was happening until I was beaten. I told myself there was still a lap and I couldn't believe that it was over." 〔 Morelon took the silver, his fifth medal in four Olympics. Georges Decoeudres, of the ''Tribune de Lausanne'', wrote: :In the first round, where he had easily passed Morelon in the last banking, Anton Tkac beat the track record in 10.89 seconds. In the second round, though, he had to submit to a very attentive Morelon. The Czech started the sprint at 200m from the line but the Frenchman matched him and led with a lap to go. Beaten, the Czech surrendered and waited for the third round. It was a passionate affair. Tkac attacked in the penultimate banking. The Frenchman, left at four metres, gave the impression that he could come back – he immediately started chasing – but the Czech kept his lead right up to the line. Morelon was irremediably beaten and sat up before the finish.〔Cited Chany, Pierre (1988). ''La Fabuleuse Histoire de Cyclisme'', Nathan, France p. 244 ISBN 978-2-7324-2352-4〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Morelon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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