Pierre-Henri Menthéour (9 May 1960 – 12 April 2014) was a French professional
road bicycle racer
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
.
Menthéour was born in
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
. His brother
Erwann was also a racing cyclist.
He won one stage in the
1984 Tour de France
The 1984 Tour de France was the 71st edition of the Tour de France, run over in 23 stages and a prologue, from 29 June to 22 July. The race was dominated by the Renault team, who won the team classification and ten stages: Renault's French rider ...
as well as the final Team Classification with
Renault–Elf–Gitane
Renault () was a French professional cycling team that existed from 1978 to 1985. The team cycled on and promoted Gitane racing bikes.
History
The team was created in 1978 after the Renault auto group purchased the Gitane bicycle manufacturer ...
. His teammate
Laurent Fignon won that Tour. He retired in 1986, but returned to competition at the age 36 in order to attempt to break the
Hour record of France.
In 2012 he admitted to doping during his career.
Cyclisme : « Je me suis dopé et je ne regrette rien. Ne les jugez pas ! » rue89.nouvelobs.com 18 July 2012
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He went on to enjoy success as a journalist and TV cameraman, working on Eurosport
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's Tour de France coverage but also working in other areas, and won an award for a 2008 documentary on Afghanistan which he made for the French TV series ''Envoyé spécial
''Envoyé spécial'' (English: Special correspondent) is a French television weekly investigative newsmagazine show that has run on channel France 2
France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France ...
''.
Death
On 12 April 2014 Pierre-Henri Menthéour died of cancer.
Career achievements
Major results
;1984
:Concarneau
: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 13
;1992
:Tour du Finistère
Tour du Finistère is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April around the city of Quimper, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, also being part of the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route ...
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
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Official Tour de France results for Pierre-Henri Menthéour
1960 births
2014 deaths
French male cyclists
French Tour de France stage winners
People from Algiers
Doping cases in cycling
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