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1962 Paris–Nice
The 1962 Paris–Nice was the 20th edition of the Paris–Nice cycle race and was held from 9 March to 17 March 1962. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Jef Planckaert of the Flandria team. General classification References Further reading * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paris-Nice,1962 1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ... 1962 in road cycling 1962 in French sport March 1962 sports events in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jef Planckaert
Joseph "Jef" Planckaert (4 May 1934 – 22 May 2007 rtbf.be. 22 May 2007 ) was a Belgium, Belgian racing cyclist. He is considered one of the best Belgian cyclists of the 1950s and 1960s. His best season was 1962, when he became Belgian National Road Race Championships, Belgian champion at the Citadel of Namur. He won Paris–Nice and the Tour de Luxembourg, won Liège–Bastogne–Liège, and finished second in the 1962 Tour de France, Tour de France. He also won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Volk in 1958 and Four Days of Dunkirk in 1957, 1960, and 1963. In the Tour de France, he finished in the top 20 six times in the final standings. In 1961, he won the 6th stage. In 1962, he wore the yellow jersey for Maillot jaune statistics, 7 consecutive days. Plancka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bas Maliepaard
Bastiaan Maliepaard (3 April 1938 – 11 July 2024) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1959 and 1967. He won the Dutch national road race champion in 1960 and 1961, as well as the winner of the points classification at the 1963 Vuelta a España. Maliepaard died from a cardiac arrest on 11 July 2024, at the age of 86. Major results ;1959 : 1st Ronde van Overijssel : 1st Stage 5b Olympia's Tour : 2nd Road race, UCI World Amateur Championships ;1960 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Ronde van Brabant : 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1961 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Jean-Claude Lebaube) : 7th Paris–Roubaix : 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk : 9th Omloop Het Volk ;1962 : 1st Stage 3a Four Days of Dunkirk : 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Oise : 5th Overall Paris–Nice ::1st Stage 3a ( TTT) : 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 9th Overall Eibarko Bizikleta : 10th Overall Vuelta a Levante ::1st Stage 5 : 10th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 In Road Cycling
Year 196 (Roman numerals, CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Ancient Rome, Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus (title), Augustus by his Roman army, army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britannia, Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Groussard
Georges Groussard (born 22 March 1937) is a retired French road cyclist. Groussard rode professionally from 1960 to 1967. He participated in 7 Tours de France, and wore the yellow jersey for 9 consecutive days in 1964. His best overall result was also in 1964, when he finished 5th place in the overall classification. His elder brother Joseph Groussard was also a professional cyclist. Since 1995, the race ''La Georges Groussard'' is dedicated to him. Major results ;1959 :Winner Mican-Morvan (amateur race) ;1961 :2nd place Paris–Nice :3rd place Tour de Luxembourg ;1962 :Winner in Plumeliau ;1963 :Winner in Plumeliau ;1964 :2nd place in French national road race championship :2nd place in Preslin :2nd place in Sévignac Tour de France results * 1961: 30th place * 1962: 72nd place * 1963: 51st place * 1964: 5th place, 10 days in yellow jersey * 1965: did not finish: gave up in stage 3 * 1966: 30th place * 1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Gainche
Jean Gainche (born 12 August 1932, in Remungol) was a French professional road bicycle racer. In 1958, Gainche won the 4th stage of the Tour de France. Major results ;1955 :Plumeliau ;1958 :Carantec :GP Ouest-France :Locmalo :Tour de Champagne :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 4 ;1959 :Boucles de l'Aulne :Etoile du Léon :Leuhan :Morlaix ;1961 :Locmalo :Ronde de Seignelay :Valognes :Chateau-Chinon ;1962 :GP Ouest-France The Bretagne Classic, also called Bretagne Classic Ouest-France, is an elite cycling classic held annually in late summer around the Breton village of Plouay in western France. The race was originally named Grand-Prix de Plouay and, from 1989 to ... : Mi-Août Bretonne ;1964 :Guerlesquin :Hennebont :Plessala ;1965 :Lagorce-Laguirande :Pontrieux ;1966 :Quimper-Guez External links *Official Tour de France results for Jean Gainche 1932 births Living people Cyclists from Morbihan French male cyclists French Tour de France stage winners 20th-century French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Anglade
Henry Anglade (6 July 1933 – 10 November 2022) was a French cycle sport, cyclist. In 1959 Tour de France, 1959 he was closest to winning the Tour de France, when he won a stage and finished second, 4:01 behind Federico Bahamontes. In 1960 he wore the yellow jersey for two days while finishing 8th overall. He placed in the top five of the Tour on two additional occasions in 1964 Tour de France, 1964 and 1965 Tour de France, 1965. Origins Henry Anglade was born in Thionville, in the Lorraine (region), Lorraine region of France close to the German border, the son of a soldier. His family moved south to Lyon at the start of the Second World War. There he went to school with a boy called André Camus who went cycling on Sundays and on Thursday afternoons. Anglade turned down his invitation to join him. It was his father who suggested that he should go, offering him the heavy family bicycle "that weighed at least 25kg". He joined Camus and his friends and found they couldn't keep up. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Poulidor
Raymond Poulidor (; 15 April 1936 – 13 November 2019), nicknamed "Pou-Pou" (), was a French professional road bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who rode for his entire career. His distinguished career coincided with two other outstanding riders – Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. This underdog position may have been the reason Poulidor was a favourite of the public. He was known as "The Eternal Second", because he never won the Tour de France despite finishing in second place three times, and in third place five times (including his final Tour at the age of 40). Despite his consistency, he never wore the yellow jersey as leader of the General classification in the Tour de France, general classification in 14 Tours (of which he completed 12). He did win one Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour, the 1964 Vuelta a España. Of the eighteen Grand Tours that he entered in his career, he finished in the top 10 fifteen times. Early life and amateur career Raymond Poulidor was the son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rik Van Looy
Henri "Rik" Van Looy (20 December 1933 – 17 December 2024) was a Belgian professional Cycle sport, cyclist of the post-World War II, war period. Nicknamed the ''King of the Classics'' or ''Emperor of Herentals'' (after the small Belgian city where he lived), he dominated the classic cycle races in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Van Looy was twice World Cycling Championship, world professional road race champion, and was the first cyclist to win all five 'Cycling monument, Monuments': the most prestigious one-day Classic cycle races, classics – a feat since achieved by just two others (both also Belgians: Roger De Vlaeminck and Eddy Merckx). With 367 professional road victories, he ranks second all-time behind Eddy Merckx. Van Looy is ninth on the Grand Tour (cycling)#Grand Tour stage wins, all-time list of Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour stage winners with thirty-seven victories. These numbers could still have risen had he not been the victim of a significant number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Desmet
Armand Desmet (23 January 1931 – 17 November 2012) nieuwsblad.be Details of death (in Dutch). was a Belgian professional . Desmet was born in , and competed professionally between 1955 and 1967. He was the first winner of the and |
Tom Simpson
Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races. He won a bronze medal for track cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In 1959, at age 21, Simpson was signed by the French professional road-racing team . He advanced to their first team () the following year, and won the 1961 Tour of Flanders. Simpson then joined ; in the 1962 Tour de France he became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey, finishing sixth overall. In 1963 Simpson moved to , winning Bordeaux–Paris that year and the 1964 Milan–San Remo. In 1965 he became Britain's first professional world road race champion and won the Giro di Lombardia; this made him the BBC Sports Personality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flandria (cycling Team)
Flandria was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed from 1957 to 1979. It was sponsored by Flandria a bicycle manufacturer located in West Flanders that also manufactures mopeds, lawnmowers, and motorbikes. History Started with a team built around Joseph Planckaert, and Rik Van Looy. Youngsters Eddy Merckx, Peter Post, Herman Van Springel, and Walter Godefroot all joined at early stages of their career, although some such as Merckx left soon after to become leader of his own team. After Van Looy's retirement, Belgian Freddy Maertens took over the leadership mantle, famous for his rivalry with Eddy Merckx. Irishman Sean Kelly also started his professional career with Flandria, as Maertens' super-domestique. Joop Zoetemelk rode for the team from 1970-1972 finishing on the podium twice in the Tour de France during this span. He also finished 5th in the 1972 Tour de France and won the King of the Mountains classification in the 1971 Vuelta a España The 26th Edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
