Anquetil, Jacques
Born: Jan 08, 1934 AD
Died: 1987 AD, at 53 years of age.
Nationality: French
Categories: Athlete, Cyclist
Died: 1987 AD, at 53 years of age.
Nationality: French
Categories: Athlete, Cyclist
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, born on the 8th of January in Mont-Saint-Aignan, near Rouen in Normandy, north-west France. He was a French Cyclist.
1952 - He took the French amateur road title, one year after he began racing.
1953 - His first year as an independent or semi-professional rider, he won the 19th Grand Prix des Nations individual time trial, then considered the equal of a world championship.
1956 - He broke the 14-year-old hour world record of the legendary Fausto Coppi (46.159 kilometres).
1957 - Won the Grand Prix des Nations' and - at his first attempt - the Tour de France with nearly 15 minutes' lead and wins in four stages.
1961 - Began a second victory streak, winning the Tour de France.
1964 - His last Tour victory was also his most famous, featuring, as it did, a legendary elbow-to-elbow duel against public favourite Raymond Poulidor on the roads up the Puy de Dôme mountain.
1965 - Won the eight-day, Alpine Dauphiné Libéré stage race at 3pm, sat through two hours of interviews and receptions, took a 6:30pm chartered flight to Bordeaux and won the world's longest single-day classic, the Bordeaux-Paris the following day.
1966 - Finished in the top 10 in the World Championship on six occasions, but second place was the nearest he ever came to winning the Rainbow Jersey.
1969 - He retired to Normandy to be a gentleman farmer.
1987 - After battling stomach cancer, died on the 18th of November in his sleep at the St. Hilaire Clinic in Rouen.
1952 - He took the French amateur road title, one year after he began racing.
1953 - His first year as an independent or semi-professional rider, he won the 19th Grand Prix des Nations individual time trial, then considered the equal of a world championship.
1956 - He broke the 14-year-old hour world record of the legendary Fausto Coppi (46.159 kilometres).
1957 - Won the Grand Prix des Nations' and - at his first attempt - the Tour de France with nearly 15 minutes' lead and wins in four stages.
1961 - Began a second victory streak, winning the Tour de France.
1964 - His last Tour victory was also his most famous, featuring, as it did, a legendary elbow-to-elbow duel against public favourite Raymond Poulidor on the roads up the Puy de Dôme mountain.
1965 - Won the eight-day, Alpine Dauphiné Libéré stage race at 3pm, sat through two hours of interviews and receptions, took a 6:30pm chartered flight to Bordeaux and won the world's longest single-day classic, the Bordeaux-Paris the following day.
1966 - Finished in the top 10 in the World Championship on six occasions, but second place was the nearest he ever came to winning the Rainbow Jersey.
1969 - He retired to Normandy to be a gentleman farmer.
1987 - After battling stomach cancer, died on the 18th of November in his sleep at the St. Hilaire Clinic in Rouen.
Page last updated: 11:00am, 28th May '07
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