Bernard Vallet

Bernard Vallet

To person
Date of birth	January 18, 1954
nation	France
discipline	Road , rail
Team (s)
1976 1977–1978 1979–1983 1984–1985 1986–1987	Gan-Mercier Miko-Mercier-Hutchinson La Redoute-Motobécane La Vie Claire R.MO-Meral-Mavic
Most important successes
Tour de France 1 stage 1980 ; Winner of the mountain classification in 1982 Road racing 1987 Bordeaux – Paris ; Six days race 1980: Noume (with Maurizio Bidinost ); 1982: Grenoble (with Gert Frank ); 1984: Paris and Grenoble (with Gert Frank ); 1986: Paris (with Danny Clark ); 1987: Grenoble (with Charly Mottet )

Bernard Vallet (born January 18, 1954 in Vienne ) is a former French cyclist who was active on track and road .

Bernard Vallet was already extremely successful as an amateur and won numerous cycling races, such as the Circuit des monts du Livradois in 1973, the French season opening race Paris – Evreux, and in 1975 the Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon and the Route de France .

In 1976 the versatile Vallet turned professional . In 1978 he was French runner-up in the single pursuit on the track and in 1981 in the road race . By 1987 he started ten times in the Tour de France . At the event in 1980 he won the 15th stage. In 1982 he won the mountain classification . In 1985 he drove with the La Vie Claire team , which won the team time trial and which included Bernard Hinault and Greg Lemond . He also achieved minor successes such as winning the Tour de Limousin in 1979 , the Grand Prix de Rennes in 1980 , the Tour d'Armorique in 1981 and the Tour de l'Aude in 1982 . In 1987, in his last year as a professional, he won the classic Bordeaux – Paris .

In addition to this workload in road cycling, Bernard Vallet also started in 44 six-day races , of which he won six. In 1984 he became French championship points race . In 1987 he resigned from active cycling.

Vallet has been a cycling commentator for the French-speaking Canadian broadcaster Canal Évasion for several years .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 16/1974 . Berlin, S. 3 .
2. ↑ Bernard Vallet on evasion.tv ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Bernard Vallet in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Bernard Vallet, patient et justifié on lncpro.fr (French) (PDF; 63 kB)