Jean Aerts (8 September 1907 – 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships. In 1935, Aerts captured first place and the gold medal at the professional UCI Road World Championships in Floreffe, Belgium. In 1927 professional and amateur riders rode concurrently at the Nürburgring in Germany and Aerts finished 5th, the highest ranked amateur. He also competed in three events at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Although he lacked climbing ability for major tours, he used his sprinting ability to win 11 stages of the Tour de France, including six in 1933. Major results 1927 World Cycling Championships Road Race (Amateur) National Road Race Championship (Amateur) 1928 National Road Race Championship (Amateur) 1929 Volta a Catalunya Winner stages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 2nd place overall classification Tour du Sud-Ouest 1930 Tour de France: Winner stage 6 1931 Paris–Brussels 1932 Tour de France 13th place Overall classification Winner stage 1 1933 Tour of Belgium: Overall winner Winner stages 2, 3 and 5 Tour de France 9th place Overall classification Winner stages 4, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 21 1 stage Paris–Nice 1934 1 stage Tour de Suisse Paris - Boulogne-sur-Mer 1935 World Cycling Championships Road Race Tour de France Winner stages 4, 8, 10 and 19 29th place overall classification Paris - Vichy 1936 National Road Race Championship 1937 Six days of Brussels (with Omer De Bruycker) Six days of Paris (with Omer De Bruycker) 1941 national track stayers championships 1942 national track stayers championships References External links Official Tour de France results for Jean Aerts 1907 births 1992 deaths Belgian male cyclists Belgian Tour de France stage winners UCI Road World Champions (elite men) People from Laeken Tour de Suisse stage winners Olympic cyclists of Belgium Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Brussels