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1978 Paris–Tours
The 1978 Grand Prix d'Automne was the 72nd edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 1 October 1978. The race started in Blois and finished in Montlhéry. The race was won by Jan Raas. General classification References 1978 in French sport 1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ... 1978 Super Prestige Pernod {{Paris–Tours-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Raas
Jan Raas (born 8 November 1952) is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Valkenburg, he also won the Tour of Flanders in 1979 and 1983, Paris–Roubaix in 1982 and Milan–San Remo in 1977. He won ten stages in the Tour de France. In six starts, Raas won the Amstel Gold Race five times. In his entire career he competed in 23 of the highly contested "Monument" Races and he finished on the podium in almost half of them: 1st place four times and 3rd place six times. Raas was a tactician and clever sprinter. He struggled on the long steep climbs but excelled on the short climbs characteristic of the northern classics. Career Born in Heinkenszand, near Goes in Zeeland, Raas was the son of a farmer and one of 10 children. He showed no interest in cycling until leaving school at 16 when he acquired his first racing bike and started competing as a junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jos Jacobs
Jos Jacobs (born 28 January 1953 in Vosselaar) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1973 :Petegem-aan-de-Leie ;1974 :Heist-op-den-Berg :Omloop der Grensstreek :Grote 1-Mei Prijs :Noorderwijk ;1975 :Omloop van Midden-Brabant : Schaal Sels-Merksem :Grote 1-Mei Prijs :Noorderwijk :Kalmthout :Oud-Turnhout ;1976 :Brussel/Berchem - Ingooigem :Deerlijk :Nandrin :Polder-Kempen :Grote 1-Mei Prijs :Oostkamp :Zomergem :Diest :Oud-Turnhout :Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Waver ;1977 :GP Pino Cerami :Lede :Omloop der drie Proviniciën :GP de Peymeinade ;1978 : Nationale Sluitingsprijs :Omloop Hageland-Zuiderkempen :Diest :Willebroek ;1979 : Schaal Sels-Merksem :Lutlommel :Rummen :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 6 ;1980 : Belgian National Road Race Championships :Peer :Herselt :Retie ;1981 :Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne :Rund um den Henninger-Turm :Vosselaar ;1982 :GP Fina :Le Samyn Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Van Calster
Guido Van Calster (born 6 February 1956) is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. He won the points classification in the 1984 Vuelta a España. Major results ;1977 : 2nd Flèche Ardennaise : 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir :: 1st Stages 2, 7, 8 & 12 ;1978 : 1st Stage 5 La Méditerranéenne : 3rd Paris–Tours : 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Omloop Het Volk : 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1979 : 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne : 7th Road race, National Road Championships : 9th Tour of Flanders : 10th Overall Tour of Belgium : 10th Rund um den Henninger Turm : 10th Ronde van Limburg ;1980 : 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 4th La Flèche Wallonne : 6th Overall Vuelta a España : 6th Overall Tour of Belgium : 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie : 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th Overall Tour du Haut Var : 10th Omloop Het Volk : 10th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen ;1981 : 1st Stage 5a Tour of the Basque Country : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 3rd La Flèche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Grand Prix D'Automne
The 1977 Grand Prix d'Automne was the 71st edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 25 September 1977. The race started in Tours and finished in Versailles. The race was won by Joop Zoetemelk. General classification References 1977 in French sport 1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ... 1977 Super Prestige Pernod {{Paris–Tours-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Grand Prix D'Automne
The 1979 Grand Prix d'Automne was the 73rd edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 30 September 1979. The race started in Blois and finished in Chaville. The race was won by Joop Zoetemelk. General classification References 1979 in French sport 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ... September 1979 sports events in Europe 1979 Super Prestige Pernod {{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] |
Blois
Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the department, and the 4th of the region. Historically, the city was the capital of the county of Blois, created on 832 until its integration into the Royal domain in 1498, when Count Louis II of Orléans became King Louis XII of France. During the Renaissance, Blois was the official residence of the King of France. History Pre-history Since 2013, excavations have been conducted by French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (''INRAP'' in French) in Vienne where they found evidence of "one or several camps of late Prehistory hunter-gatherers, who were also fishermen since fishing traps were found there.. ..They were ancestors of the famous Neolithic farmer-herders, who were present in current France around 6,000 BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montlhéry
Montlhéry () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located from Paris. History Montlhéry lay on the strategically important road from Paris to Orléans. Under the Merovingians, it was owned by the church in Reims and in 768 it was given to the abbey of St. Denis in Paris. It was the site of a number of battles between the lords of Montlhéry and the early House of Capet, Capetian monarchy. The Montlhéry noble house was related to the Montmorency family; Thibaud, the founder of the Montlhéry dynasty, was the brother of Bouchard II, the progenitor of the Montmorency house. Thibaud ruled from 970 to 1031 and was succeeded by his son Guy I of Montlhéry, Guy I, who ruled until 1095. Guy I's children married into other local noble families: his daughter Melisende married Hugh, count of Rethel, and another daughter Elizabeth married Joscelin of Courtenay. Through these marriages and subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joop Zoetemelk
Hendrik Gerardus Joseph "Joop" Zoetemelk (; born 3 December 1946) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist. He started and finished the Tour de France 16 times, which were both records when he retired. He also holds the distance record in Tour de France history with 62,885 km ridden. He won the 1979 Vuelta a España and the 1980 Tour de France. He finished the Tour in 8th, 5th, 4th (three times) and 2nd (six times) for a total of eleven top 5 finishes which is also a record. He was the first rider to wear the Tour de France's Polka Dot Jersey as the King of the Mountains and even though he never won this classification in the Tour de France, he did win it in the 1971 Vuelta a España and was considered one of the best climbers of his generation. If not for a +10:00 doping infraction in 1977, he would have come in the top 5 in each of the first 12 Tours he entered. He won the World Professional Road Championship in 1985 at the age of 38, with a late attack surprisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Dierickx
André Dierickx (born 29 October 1947) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist who competed between 1969 and 1981. He competed in the individual road race at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Notable results ;1970 – Flandria-Mars : 1st, GP Pino Cerami : 1st, Nokere Koerse : 1st, Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé ;1972 – Flandria-Beaulieu : 2nd, Paris–Roubaix ;1973 – Flandria-Carpenter : 1st, La Flèche Wallonne : 1st, Züri-Metzgete ;1974 – Flandria-Carpenter : 55th, Tour de France ;1975 – Rokado : 1st, La Flèche Wallonne : 1st, GP Kanton Aargau : 1st, Grand Prix de Wallonie : 1st, Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé : 3rd, Paris–Roubaix ;1976 – Maes-Rokado : 1st, GP Union Dortmund The Grand Prix Union Dortmund was a German cycling race organized for the last time in 1984. The course was between 130 and 172 km, with Dortmund as both start and finish place. The competition's roll of honor includes the successes of Ed ... : 1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrie Knetemann
Gerard Friedrich "Gerrie" Knetemann (6 March 1951 in Amsterdam – 2 November 2004 in Bergen, North Holland) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980. A four-time winner of the Ronde van Nederland, he also rode the Tour de France 11 times between 1974 and 1987, winning 10 stages, a Dutch record equalled only by Jan Raas and Joop Zoetemelk. Knetemann won 127 races as a professional. Knetemann maintained an Amsterdam accent and a sharp sense of humour that made him a favourite with reporters and earned him television and radio appearances. His best year in the Tour de France was 1978, when he led from the sixth stage. Although he lost the leader's yellow jersey two days later, he won the stage into Lausanne and then the final stage on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Together with Raas and his TI-Raleigh teammates Knetemann played a pivotal role in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Edwards (cyclist)
Philip Edwards (3 September 1949 – 24 April 2017) was a British professional road racing cyclist. Cycling career He represented the United Kingdom at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he finished sixth in the road race, just behind teammate Phil Bayton. He represented England in the road race, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand before becoming a professional cyclist from 1976 to 1980. It was reported that he died of a suspected heart attack at his home in Monaco on Monday, 24 April 2017 aged 67. Major results ;1967 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;1972 : 1st Lincoln Grand Prix : 6th Road race, Olympic Games : 9th Overall Trophée Peugeot de l'Avenir ;1974 : 1st Overall Giro del Friuli Venezia Giulia ;1977 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Tre Valli Varesine : 3rd Giro dell'Emilia : 3rd Trofeo Matteotti : 6th Coppa Ugo Agostoni ;1978 : 1st Stage 7a Volta a Catalunya : 5th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
