# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-debaets
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:44.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-debaets"
name: "Gérard Debaets"
slug: "gerard-debaets"
description: "Gerard Debaets was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1924 and 1927 and the Belgian national road race title in 1925. He also specialized in track cycling, winning a total of 18 six-day events, including six times the most prestigious Six Days of New York. Debaets was a resident of Fair Lawn and North Haledon, New Jersey, where he died in 1959 of a heart attack."
tagline: "Belgian cyclist (1898–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G%C3%A9rard_Debaets.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1898-04-17"
deathDate: "1959-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.937509333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gérard Debaets"
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    title: "جيرارد ديبايتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerard Debaets"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Debaets"
    title: "Gerard Debaets"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Debaets"
    title: "Gérard Debaets"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ژرار دباتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Debaets"
    title: "Gérard Debaets"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Debaets"
    title: "Gérard Debaets"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Debaets"
    title: "Gerard Debaets"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump