Pierre Trentin

Pierre Trentin (born 15 May 1944 in Créteil) was a French professional racing cyclist and double Olympic champion.

Trentin began competing when he was 14. He continued racing when he began training and then established his own business as a leather craftsman and became one of the world's leading cyclists on the track. At 17 he won the French junior championship. He came third in the kilometre time trial at the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. He won gold medals for the 1km and 2km tandem sprint at the Olympics in Mexico City in 1968, and a bronze medal in the Munich Olympics of 1972. At Mexico in 1968 he set a world amateur record for the kilometre, 1. 3.91.

He is best known for his tandem partnership with Daniel Morelon. But where Morelon remained prominent in the sport as coach of the French national track team, Trentin dropped out. Always obliged to struggle with his weight, Trentin is an ardent trainer with weights.

Olympic gold: 1000m time trial 1968; 2000m tandem 1968.Olympic bronze: 1000m time trial 1964; sprint 1968.

References

* [http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TRENTPIE01 databaseOlympics profile]
* [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/biotr.htm#ENP Great Olympians - biographies]