Hubert Opperman
Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman, OBE , referred to as Oppy by Australian and French crowds, was an Australian cyclist and politician, whose endurance cycling feats in the 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim.
Opperman was born in Rochester, Victoria in 1904 of BritishGerman descent. His father, Adolphus Samuel Ferdinand Oppermann, had worked as a butcher, miner, timbercutter and coach driver. Hubert, the eldest of five children, learned as a child to plough with six horses and to ride bareback. He attended several schools and delivered Post Office telegrams by bicycle. Sometime following Huberts birth, his parents moved to Western Australia, along with his uncle Albert Oppermann and his fathers cousins August, Emil and Hugo Oppermann. . Huberts sister Winifred was born in Western Australia in 1907 after that the family moved back to Victoria where Huberts twin siblings Bertha Ellen and Otto Alexander were born in 1910, followed by younger brother Bruce some years later. Bruce also became a competitive cyclist, and won several regional races in Victoria.
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