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1987 Critérium Du Dauphiné Libéré
The 1987 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 39th edition of the cycle race and was held from 25 May to 2 June 1987. The race started in Grenoble and finished in Carpentras. The race was won by Charly Mottet of the Système U (cycling team), Système U team. Teams Fifteen teams, containing a total of 131 riders, participated in the race: * * * * * * * * * * * * Colombia amateur team * Poland amateur team * Czechoslovakia amateur team * Italy amateur team Route General classification References Further reading * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dauphine Libere, 1987 Critérium du Dauphiné, 1987 1987 in French sport 1987 Super Prestige Pernod International May 1987 sports events in Europe June 1987 sports events in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charly Mottet
Charly Mottet (born 16 December 1962 in Valence, Drôme) is a French former professional Bicycle, cyclist (1983 to 1994). He was one of the best French road cyclists of his era. Career Mottet won a total of 67 races, including the Tour de Romandie in 1990, and rode eight times in the Tour de France. His best results in the Tour de France were 4th-place finishes in 1987 and 1991. He won three stages, one in 1990 (Stage 15 : Millau – Revel, Haute-Garonne, Revel) and two in 1991 (Stage 11 : Quimper, Finistère, Quimper – Saint-Herblain and Stage 12 : Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau – Jaca). He also finished 2nd in the 1990 Giro d'Italia. During his professional cycling career, Mottet had a reputation within the peloton as being a totally clean rider who never used performance-enhancing drugs. He is former FICP World No. 1 (in May and August 1989). After retiring from racing, Mottet became involved in race organising, working on the Critérium du Dauphiné (where he was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Cornillet
Bruno Cornillet (born 8 February 1963, in Lamballe, Côtes-d'Armor) is a French former professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1983 : 3rd Chrono des Herbiers : 3rd Duo Normand (with Roland Le Clerc) ;1984 : 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Paris–Camembert : 4th Tour du Nord-Ouest : 6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe : 8th Overall Tour du Limousin : 9th GP du canton d'Argovie ;1985 : 1st Stage 2 Paris–Bourges : 3rd GP de la Ville de Rennes : 3rd Trofeo Luis Puig : 7th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;1986 : 1st Chateauroux-Limoges : 1st Stage 2a Coors Classic : 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 4 : 3rd Overall Tour d'Armorique : 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 9th Nice–Alassio : 9th Tour du Haut Var ;1987 : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Sweden : 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin : 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Stage 2 : 5th Amstel Gold Race : 7th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1988 : 2nd Overall Tour of Sweden : 2nd Paris– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Chozas
Eduardo Chozas Olmo (born 5 July 1960 in Madrid) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist. He won four stages at the Tour de France and three in the Giro d'Italia. He was also chosen as the most combative rider of 1990 Tour de France. As of 2014, Chozas holds the record for most Grand Tour participations and finishes. He started in a total of 26 Grand Tours (6 Tours, 7 Giros and 13 Vueltas), and finished in 25 of them, only abandoning the 1984 Vuelta a España on the last stage. Career achievements Major results ;1979 : 3rd Clásica a los Puertos ;1980 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana : 9th Overall Deutschland Tour ::1st Stage 5b ;1981 : 2nd Overall Vuelta Asturias ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Clásica a los Puertos ;1983 : 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a la Rioja : 1st Overall Vuelta a AndalucÃa ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Clásica de Sabiñánigo : 1st GP Camp de Morvedre : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos : 3rd Clásica a los Puertos : 6th Overall Vuelta a España : 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Leblanc
Luc Leblanc (; born 4 August 1966) is a French former professional road cyclist. He became a World Road Champion in 1994. Biography In 1978, a drunk driver hit Luc Leblanc, aged 11, and his younger brother Gilles Leblanc, aged 8. Gilles died after the accident, and Luc was hospitalized for six months. After many operations, Luc was able to walk again, although his left leg was 3 cm shorter and weaker than his right leg. Initially, Leblanc wanted to become a priest, but after a physiotherapist's advice to take up cycling to solve his leg problems, and subsequently Raymond Poulidor's advice to become a professional cyclist, he did not become a priest. At the 1991 Tour de France, in the 12th stage Leblanc joined the decisive attack together with Charly Mottet and Pascal Richard. Mottet won the stage, but they finished 7 minutes ahead of the classification leader LeMond, which meant that Leblanc was the new leader. The next day, Leblanc finished 12 minutes behind the wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régis Simon
Régis Simon (born 19 March 1958, in Troyes) is a French former professional road bicycle racer. He is the brother of former professional cyclists Pascal, Jérôme and François Simon. Régis Simon won a stage in the 1985 Tour de France. Major results ;1985 :Le Horps :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 18B ;1987 :Dixmont ;1990 :Circuit de Lorraine The Circuit de Lorraine is a multi-stage road bicycle racing event held annually in Lorraine, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing compet ... External links *Official Tour de France results for Régis Simon French male cyclists 1958 births Living people French Tour de France stage winners Sportspeople from Troyes Cyclists from Grand Est 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Vallet
Bernard Vallet (born January 18, 1954, in Vienne, Isère) is a French former road bicycle racer who won the mountains classification in the 1982 Tour de France. From 2003 to 2011, Bernard Vallet was the analyst of the Tour de France on Canal Evasion with the two sports commentator Richard Garneau and Louis Bertrand. Moreover, he is the analyst for the Quebec broadcasting of Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal et Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec since the first edition. Major results ;1968 : National Amateur Road Race Championship ;1977 :Mende ;1979 :Tour du Limousin ;1980 :GP de la Ville de Rennes :Mende :Niort :Six Days of Nouméa (with Maurizio Bidinost) :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 15 ;1981 :Arras :Circuit des genêts verts :Maël-Pestivien :Tour d'Armorique ;1982 :Bain-de-Bretagne :Chamalières : Six-Days of Grenoble (with Gert Frank) :Lescouet-Jugon :Ronde Aude :Tour de France: :: Winner mountains classification ;1984 :Camors : Six-Days of Grenoble (with Gert Frank) : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Knickman
Clarence "Roy" Knickman (born June 23, 1965) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Team Time Trial at the 1984 Summer Olympics. His teammates in Los Angeles, California were Ron Kiefel, Andrew Weaver, and Davis Phinney. Knickman rode in the 1988 and 1989 Tour de France for Team 7 Eleven. He memorably featured in one of the greatest breakaways in the history of Paris–Roubaix in 1988. During his professional career, Knickman rode for the famous teams of La Vie Claire (alongside Greg LeMond, Bernard Hinault and Andrew Hampsten), Toshiba-Look and 7-Eleven. He originally retired from competition at the end of 1993 to take up coaching, serving as coach of the US national junior team in 1994 and the US national and Olympic road team from 1995 to 1997. However he returned to riding with the Mercury team in 1998, combining it with the role of Assistant Manager until 2000. He subsequently worked in management for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisteron
Sisteron (; , ; from ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France. Sisteron is situated on the banks of the river Durance just after the confluence of the rivers Buëch and Sasse. It is sometimes called the "Gateway to Provence" because it is in a narrow gap between two long mountain ridges. Despite its relatively small population, it serves as a long-distance navigation reference point, routinely signed as far away as Grenoble. It is from Marseille, also from Grenoble, from Nice and from Forcalquier. There are of forest and wood within the commune.Roger Brunet, ÂCanton de Sisteron», ''Le Trésor des régions'', read 9 June 2013. History Sisteron has been inhabited for 4,000 years. The Romans used the route through Sisteron as can be shown by a Latin inscription in the rocks near the road to Authon. It escaped the barbarian invasions after the fall of Rome, but was ravaged by the Saracens. It was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bardonecchia
Bardonecchia (; ; , ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' located in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley. It grew out of a small village with the works for the Fréjus Rail Tunnel, the first crossing the Alps. The town hosted the Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics, snowboarding events of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Geography The town, which is located about from Turin at the intersection of four valleys, is surrounded by mountains, including several whose peaks surpass . The historic center is set back and elevated (Borgo Vecchio), while the new part of town was built around the train station (Borgo Nuovo). The town has grown thanks to activities related to customs, logistics, and tourism; as a result, it has incorporated some neighboring villages and thus is one of the largest towns in the Susa Valley. Bardonecchia is at one end of both the Fréjus Road Tunnel and the Fréjus Rail Tunnel, part of a TGV Paris to Mila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valfréjus
Valfréjus is a ski resort in the Maurienne Valley, located in the commune of Modane, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (; AURA) or ; or ; . is a Regions of France, region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. The new region came into e ... region. The station was opened in 1983. References External links {{commonscat, ValfréjusOfficial English site Ski areas and resorts in France Sports venues in Savoie [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niki Rüttimann
Niki Rüttimann (born 18 August 1962 in Untereggen) is a Swiss former road bicycle racer. Ruttiman was one of the most important domestiques of the La Vie Claire teams of the mid 1980s. In the 1984 Tour de France he finished 11th overall riding in support of Bernard Hinault who placed 2nd. During the 1985 Tour de France as well as the 1986 Tour de France he was right there between Hinault and Greg LeMond as they battled for Tour victories both years. He finished 13th in 1985 and 7th in 1986 while also winning stage 14. In 1987 he won a stage in the Tour de Romandie and a stage in the Critérium du Dauphiné and went into the Tour supporting Jean-François Bernard being as Hinault had retired and LeMond was recovering from a gunshot wound. Bernard held the yellow jersey late in the race and finished 3rd overall as Ruttiman was there until the end, but abandoned on the final stage in the high mountains. He won two stages and finished 2nd overall in the 1988 Critérium du Dauphiné L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city in France with a population of 522,250 at the Jan. 2021 census within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 2,308,818 that same year, the second largest in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Lyon Metropolis, Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,424,069 in 2021. Lyon is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region and seat of the Departmental co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
