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1935 Paris–Tours
The 1935 Paris–Tours was the 30th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 5 May 1935. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by René Le Grevès. General classification References 1935 in French sport 1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ... May 1935 sports events {{Paris–Tours-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Le Grevès
René Le Grevès (6 July 1910 – 25 February 1946) was a French professional road bicycle racer. As an amateur cyclist, he won the silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit. In 1933 Le Grevès became professional, and between 1933 and 1939, he won sixteen stages in the Tour de France. Major results ;1932 :Silver medal 1932 olympic games, team pursuit ;1933 :Paris-Caen :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 22 ;1934 :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 2, 5, 10 and 22A ;1935 :Circuit de Paris :Circuit du Morbihan :Critérium International :Paris–Tours :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 14A, 18A, 19A and 20A ;1936 : national road race championship :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 5, 12, 13A, 14A, 17 and 20A ;1937 :Critérium International ;1938 :Paris-Caen ;1939 :Paris-Sedan :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Lapébie
Roger Lapébie (; 16 January 1911 – 11 October 1996) was a French racing cyclist who won the 1937 Tour de France. In addition, Lapébie won the 1934 and 1937 editions of the Critérium National. He was born at Bayonne, Aquitaine, and died in Pessac. Early career Lapébie made his debut in the Tour de France in 1932, as a member of the French national team. He won one stage in that Tour, and was selected again in 1933; that year he did not win any stage. In 1934, Lapébie again rode the Tour de France as part of the national team. He won five stages, and finished in third place in the general classification. He would have been a contender for the victory in the 1935 Tour, had it not been for his difficult relation with Henri Desgrange, the Tour director. In the 1935 Tour de France, Lapébie was not selected to be part of the French national team, but had to start as a French individual cyclist. In the Tour of 1936, he did not even start. 1937 Tour de France In 1937, Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 Paris–Tours
The 1934 Paris–Tours was the 29th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 29 April 1934. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Gustave Danneels. General classification References 1934 in French sport 1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ... April 1934 sports events {{Paris–Tours-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Paris–Tours
The 1936 Paris–Tours was the 31st edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 3 May 1936. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Gustave Danneels. General classification References 1936 in French sport 1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ... May 1936 sports events {{Paris–Tours-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris–Tours
Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, at Le Gault-du-Perche. It is known as a "Sprinters' Classic" because it frequently ends in a bunch sprint at the finish, in Tours. For several decades the race arrived on the 2.7 km long Avenue de Grammont, one of cycling's best-known finishing straits, particularly renowned among sprinters. Since 2011 the finish was moved to a different location because a new tram line was built on the Avenue de Grammont. History Paris–Tours was first run for amateurs in 1896, making it one of the oldest cycling races in the world. It was organised by the magazine ''Paris-Vélo'', which described that edition won by Eugène Prévost as, ''“A crazy, unheard of, unhoped for success”''. It was five years before the race was run again and a furt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole functional area (France), metropolitan area was 516,973. Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. Formerly named Caesarodunum by its founder, Roman Augustus, Emperor Augustus, it possesses one of the largest amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, the Tours Amphitheatre. Known for the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, it is a National Sanctuary with connections to the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingians and the Carolingian dynasty, Carolingians, with the Capetian dynasty, Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livre tournois. Martin of Tours, Saint Martin, Gregory of Tours and Alcuin were all from Tours. Tours was once part of Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard De Caluwé
Edgard may refer to the following: *Edgard, Louisiana *Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs * Edgard Varèse See also *Eadgar (other) *Edgar (other) *Edgardo Edgardo is an Italian-language form of the name Edgar. It may refer to: * Edgardo Abdala (born 1978), Chilean-Palestinian football midfielder * Edgardo Adinolfi (born 1974), Uruguayan football player *Edgardo Alfonzo (born 1973), former Major Lea ... {{disambig, given name French masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Speicher
Georges Speicher (; 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. Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year. Career achievements Major results ;1931 :Paris-Arras ;1932 :10th Tour de France: ;1933 : World road race championship :Tour de France: :: Winner overall classification ::Winner stages 8, 9 and 12 ;1934 :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 1, 5, 6, 13 and 20 ;1935 : 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 Romai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Schepers
Alphonse Schepers (27 August 1907 – 1 December 1984) was a Belgian racing cyclist. A native of the Flemish Brabant deelgemeente (part-municipality) of Neerlinter, Alphonse Schepers died in Tienen at the age of 77. Major results * Vuelta a España – 3 stages (1936) * Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1931–1935) * Paris–Nice ** 1 stage & Final (1933) ** 1 stage (1934) * Paris-Rennes (1934) * Tour of Flanders (1933) ** 2nd (1934) * Tour de France – 1 stage (1933) * Paris-St. Etienne – 1 stage (1933 * Paris-Belfort (1932) * Circuit du Morbihan – 1 stage & Final (1932) * Bordeaux–Paris The Bordeaux–Paris professional cycle race was one of Europe's classic cycle races, and one of the longest in the professional calendar, covering approximately – more than twice most single-day races. It started in northern Bordeaux in sout ... – 3rd (1932) * National Road Championship (1931) * National Cyclo-Cross Championship – 2nd (1931) * Liège–Bastogne–Liège ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Merviel
Jules Merviel ( Saint-Beauzély, 29 September 1906 — Toulon, 1 September 1976) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Merviel won a stage in the 1930 Tour de France. In the 1935 Tour de France, he hit the back of a truck and did not race for two years. Major results ;1929 :Paris-Caen :Dreyron ;1930 :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...: ::Winner stage 7 :Yverdon ;1931 :Yverdon ;1933 : Paris–Tours :24 hours of Montpellier (with Gabriel Marcillac) ;1934 :Paris-Nevers :Touquet His name, suitedly, comes from the French word "mervielleux", it means extraordinary or supernatural. External links *Official Tour de France results for Jules Merviel French male cyclists 1906 births 1976 deaths French Tour de France stage winners Sportspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
