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Full name | Georges Speicher | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Le roi de Montlhéry (The King ofMontlhéry) | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1907-06-08)8 June 1907 Paris,France | ||||||||||||||
Died | 24 January 1978(1978-01-24) (aged 70) Maisons-Laffitte, France | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Georges Speicher (pronounced[ʒɔʁʒspɛ.ʃe]; 8 June 1907 – 24 January 1978) was a Frenchcyclist who won the1933 Tour de France along with three stage wins, and the 1933World Cycling Championship.
After Speicher had won the1933 Tour de France, he was initially not selected for the1933 UCI Road World Championships. Only after a French cyclist that had been selected dropped out, Speicher was brought in as a replacement at the last notice, and won the race.[1] Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year.[2]
1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | |
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Giro d'Italia | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Mountains classification | N/A | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | 10 | 1 | 11 | 6 | DNF-7 | DNF-7 | DSQ |
Stages won | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mountains classification | N/A | 11 | NR | 24 | NR | NR | NR |
Vuelta a España | N/A | N/A | N/A | DNE | DNE | N/A | N/A |
Stages won | — | — | |||||
Mountains classification | — | — |
1 | Winner |
2–3 | Top three-finish |
4–10 | Top ten-finish |
11– | Other finish |
DNE | Did not enter |
DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
DSQ | Disqualified |
N/A | Race/classification not held |
NR | Not ranked in this classification |
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