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Albert Champion (cyclist)
Albert Champion (4 April 1878 Paris—26 October 1927 Paris) was a French road bicycle racer, who won the 1899 Paris–Roubaix. In 1908 he founded the Champion Ignition Company to make spark plugs in Flint, Michigan.〔(Buickcity - 2008/03 Champion Ignition Company )〕 In 1909 the name changed to AC Spark Plug Company, after Champion's initials.〔(Flint Timeline Project-Albert Champion 1908 )〕
==Cycling==
Albert Champion was a talented racing cyclist at the end of the 19th century. His win in Paris–Roubaix (see below) came as a surprise because he had been known as a velodrome rider.〔Chany, Pierre (1988) La Fabuleuse Histoire de Cyclisme, Nathan, France, p159〕
The historian Pierre Chany says Champion went to America after his win to profit from track contracts and to escape conscription, which could have meant up to seven years in the army.〔 There he raced behind motorcycles and against riders such as Jimmy Michael, leading a comfortable life, enough that he could buy a racing car and take part in competitions. "He had contracted the car virus", said the historian Pascal Sergent.〔Sergent, Pascal (1989) Chronique d'une Légende: Paris–Roubaix, Belgium〕
He crashed in a race and spent months in hospital, leaving with one leg two centimetres shorter than the other. By then, Champion had opened a factory to make spark plugs. He returned to France to raise more money for it. Coping with his shortened leg by using cranks of different lengths, he won a 50 km race on the Buffalo track in Paris and in 1904 became national motor-paced champion on the Parc des Princes track by beating specialists such as Parent, Contenet and the "blond Adonis",〔Chany, Pierre (1988) La Fabuleuse Histoire de Cyclisme, Nathan, France, p160〕 Émile Bouhours. The race reopened the injury to his leg and he was taken to the Hôpital Boucicaut. He was in his hospital bed when he saw a fellow rider, Brecy, brought in with injuries collected in a crash at 90 km/h. The experience ended Champion's racing career.
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