Francisco Masip (8 August 1926 – 25 September 2015) was a Spanish professional cyclist. He was professional from 1948 until 1960.

Biography

Masip was born in Santa Coloma de Gramanet on August 8, 1926, and in Catalonia. He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet for his entire life.

Career

He was the first Spanish cyclist to participate in five consecutive Tour de France editions, between 1951 and 1955. His cycling career spanned 16 seasons, from 1945 to 1960, in which he obtained a total of 19 victories.

Major results

;1945 : 3rd Trofeo Jaumendreu ;1946 : 5th Trofeo Jaumendreu ;1948 : 1st Trofeo Jaumendreu : 8th Overall

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;1949 : 3rd National Climbing Championships ;1950 : 1st Trofeo Jaumendreu : 1st

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: 2nd Overall GP Catalunya : 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1951 : 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1952 : 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1953 : 1st MaillotEspaña

Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Euskal Bizikleta ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1954 : 1st Clásica a los Puertos : 2nd Overall

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: 4th Overall Vuelta a Aragón ::1st Stage 2 : 7th Overall Euskal Bizikleta ;1955 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 1 & 6 : 1st Stage 6a Vuelta a Andalucía : 2nd Clásica a los Puertos : 3rd

;1956 : 1st

: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya : 3rd National Climbing Championships ;1959 : 6th Overall Euskal Bizikleta

Grand Tour results

Tour de France

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

: 59th *

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

: 30th *

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

: 46th *

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

: 55th *

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

: DNF

Vuelta a España

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

: DNF *

: 31st *

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

: 28th *

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

: 18th *

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

: DNF

Giro d'Italia

: 39th

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Masip, Francisco 1926 births 2015 deaths Spanish male cyclists Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists from Catalonia Sportspeople from Santa Coloma de Gramenet 20th-century Spanish people