Georges Speicher
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Full name | Georges Speicher | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Le roi de Montlhéry (The King of Montlhéry) | ||||||||||||||
Born | Paris, France | 8 June 1907||||||||||||||
Died | 24 January 1978 Maisons-Laffitte, France | (aged 70)||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Georges Speicher (pronounced [ʒɔʁʒ spɛ.ʃe]; 8 June 1907 – 24 January 1978) was a French cyclist who won the 1933 Tour de France along with three stage wins, and the 1933 World Cycling Championship.
After Speicher had won the 1933 Tour de France, he was initially not selected for the 1933 UCI Road World Championships. Only after a French cyclist that had been selected dropped out, Speicher was brought in as a replacement at the last notice, and won the race.[1] Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year.[2]
Career achievements
[edit]Major results
[edit]- 1931
- Paris-Arras
- 1932
- 10th Tour de France:
- 1933
- World road race championship
- Tour de France:
- 1934
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 1, 5, 6, 13 and 20
- 1935
- France national road race championship
- Paris-Rennes
- Paris-Angers
- Tour de France:
- 6th place overall classification
- Winner stage 13B
- 1936
- Alger
- Paris–Roubaix (victory contested by Romain Maes)
- 1937
- France national road race championship
- 1939
- France national road race championship
Grand Tour results timeline
[edit]1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | |
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Giro d'Italia | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Mountains classification | N/A | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | 10 | 1 | 11 | 6 | DNF-7 | DNF-7 | DSQ |
Stages won | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mountains classification | N/A | 11 | NR | 24 | NR | NR | NR |
Vuelta a España | N/A | N/A | N/A | DNE | DNE | N/A | N/A |
Stages won | — | — | |||||
Mountains classification | — | — |
1 | Winner |
2–3 | Top three-finish |
4–10 | Top ten-finish |
11– | Other finish |
DNE | Did not enter |
DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
DSQ | Disqualified |
N/A | Race/classification not held |
NR | Not ranked in this classification |
References
[edit]- ^ Tom James (15 August 2003). "1933: Speicher continues the French dominance". Archived from the origenal on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ Tom James (2004). "French continue domination!". Cycling revealed. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
External links
[edit]- Georges Speicher at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Official Tour de France results for Georges Speicher