Ulysses (Bosch van Drakestein) Best amateur of the year 1908

            Watch his garters.

Gerard Bosch van Drakestein (24 July 1887 – 20 March 1972) was a track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his country at three Summer Olympics (1908, 1924 and 1928).

End July 1914 he missed out on the title world amateur printers in Copenhagen, because on August 1 World War I broke out, and the tournament was cancelled halfway. 

In the years around World War 1 Bosch van Drakenstein was very successful: he won a total of 17 Dutch titles.

In the 1930s, Bosch van Drakenstein had Nazi sympathies. He was instrumental in the removal of a Jewish administrator of the Dutch Cycling Union. This administrator later knew to escape the Nazis to flee to Switzerland. Legal charges filed over this after the war were dismissed as the period of prescription had passed.

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Taken on: December 14, 2015

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