André Desvages (12 March 1944 – 1 June 2018) 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 com ...

. His sporting career began with C.S.M. Puteaux. Desvages' short professional cycling career, from 1967 to 1970, is mostly remembered for his 5A stage win in the

1968 Tour de France The 1968 Tour de France was the 55th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 27 June and 21 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of . Eleven national teams of 10 riders competed, with three French ...

. After his cycling career he became technical director of the new Gitane team, and he signed a young

Bernard Hinault Bernard Hinault (; born 14 November 1954) is a French former professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist. With 147 professional victories, including five times the Tour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time. In ...

. He competed in the

team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...

at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq ...

Major results

;1965 :Paris –Troyes ;1968 :

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...

: ::Winner stage 5A

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for André Desvages
1944 births 2018 deaths French male cyclists French Tour de France stage winners Cyclists from Calvados (department) Olympic cyclists for France Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-bio-1940s-stub