Gerard Sanger

Gerard Sanger (12 June 1934-21 June 1968) was a Brunanter cyclist. He achieved much success in the mid to late 1960s until his death while racing in 1968.

Biography
Sanger was an amateur cyclist in his youth, entering with a Peugeot bicycle in the Cape Cross-Willemstad in 1957. In 1959 he signed with the Castelon team, where he won the first stage of the Cape Cross-Willemstad and led much of the second, only to lose out in the last 20 km to Roger Cousins. By the early 1960s, he began to achieve more success, with some media reports suggesting he was improving with age.

Sanger formed his own team in 1962 with sponsorship by the F Laboratories' "Anise" Toothpaste. He finished fifth in the Tre Valli Varesine in 1963. He placed third overall in the 1965 Tour Brunant. In 1966 he won the Tour of Libertas, finishing first overall. This was followed by another first in the Belmont-Batterton in Kemburg. For 1967, he joined the Atlantic Cycle team.

He started 1968 with his first win of the Cape Cross-Willemtstad. That year he won first in the Kroneby Rundt (Strasland), the Grijzestad Race and Tour Brunant.

He crashed his bicycle during during the 8th stage of the Tour de Suisse, near the town of Bilten.