Roger Pingeon
.jpg) Pingeon in 1972 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | 28 August 1940 Hauteville-Lompnes, Vichy France |
| Died | 19 March 2017 (aged 76) Beaupont, France |
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1965–1972 | Peugeot–BP–Michelin |
| 1973 | Rokado–De Gribaldy |
| 1974 | Jobo–Lejeune |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Roger Pingeon (pronounced [ʁɔʒe pɛ̃ʒɔ̃]; 28 August 1940 – 19 March 2017) was a professional road bicycle racer from France.[2]
Biography
[edit]Growing up near the Jura Mountains, he was a cross-country skier as a teenager before taking up bicycle racing. He spent two years in Algeria on military service before starting his professional cycling career relatively late.[3] He raced as a professional from 1964 to 1974. In 1967, Pingeon won the Tour de France. In 1969, Pingeon won the Vuelta a España and finished second behind Eddy Merckx in the Tour de France.[4] He took a total of four Tour de France stage wins and finished in the top five of the race's general classification three times during his career. After retiring from competition he worked as a consultant for Radio Télévision Suisse between 1979 and 1998.[1] Pingeon died on 19 March 2017 at his home in the village of Beaupont in the Ain department, about 100 km away from his hometown of Hauteville-Lompnes, after suffering a heart attack.[3]
Major results
[edit]- 1965
- 2nd Coppa Agostoni
- 2nd Grand Prix de la Trinité
- 5th Grand Prix des Nations
- 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 7th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
- 9th Overall Circuit du Provençal
- 1966
- 2nd Overall Critérium National de la Route
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Mont Faron Hill Climb
- 4th Grand Prix des Nations
- 7th Gran Premio di Lugano
- 8th Overall Tour de France
- 1967
- 1st
Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5a
- 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
- 2nd Circuit de l'Aulne
- 3rd Genoa–Nice
- 4th Circuit des Boucles de la Seine
- 4th Grand Prix de Monaco
- 5th À travers Lausanne
- 5th Gran Premio di Lugano
- 5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Raymond Poulidor)
- 6th Paris–Tours
- 7th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 7th Paris–Tours
- 8th Overall Paris–Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 2
- 1968
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Critérium National de la Route
- 3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb
- 3rd Baden-Baden (with Charly Grosskost)
- 5th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 15 & 18
Combativity award Overall
- 7th Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 9th Tour de l'Hérault
- 1969
- 1st Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 12 & 14b (ITT)
- 1st Flèche Enghiennoise
- 2nd Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 9
- 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall À travers Lausanne
- 9th Overall Paris–Nice
- 10th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1970
- 2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Raphaël
- 3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb
- 4th Overall Critérium National de la Route
- 4th Tour du Haut Var
- 4th Grand Prix de Monaco
- 9th Polymultipliée
- 10th Tour de l'Hérault
- 1971
- 3rd Coppa Agostoni
- 3rd Trophée Baracchi (with Bernard Thévenet)
- 5th Grand Prix des Nations
- 10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 1972
- Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Prologue (TTT) & Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 5th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue (TTT)
- 7th Overall Paris–Nice
- 9th Étoile de Bessèges
- 1974
- 1st Grand Prix de Plumelec
- 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 6th Critérium National de la Route
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 |
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 Vuelta a España
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— | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | DNF | — |
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | DNF | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France
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12 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | DNF | — | DNF | — | 11 |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Carnet noir: Le cycliste Roger Pingeon est décédé" [Black book: The cyclist Roger Pingeon is dead]. Le Matin (Switzerland) (in French). 19 March 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ Former Tour de France champion Roger Pingeon dies at 76
- ^ a b "Roger Pingeon, la mort de l'échassier" [Roger Pingeon, the death of the wader]. La Voix du Nord (daily) (in French). 19 March 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ a b Roger Pingeon. cyclingarchives.com
- ^ "Palmarès de Roger Pingeon (Fra)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roger Pingeon.
- Roger Pingeon at Cycling Archives (archived)
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