André Perchicot was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

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 and the 1912 French National Track Championships

French National Track Championships

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Biography

He was born on August 9, 1888. In 1912 in Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

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 the gold medal

Gold medal

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 was won by Frank Louis Kramer

Frank Louis Kramer

Frank Louis Kramer was an American gold medal cyclist. He won won 16 consecutive national championships from 1901 to 1916. He was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1988.-Biography:He was born in 1880....

. Alfred Grenda of Austria

Austria

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, won the silver medal

Silver medal

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He served in World War I

World War I

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as a pilot and his plane was shot down in 1916. At the end of the war he began a singing career. He travelled the world, touring in Europe, Africa and Middle-East until the late 1930s. He died on May 3, 1950.