Louis Caput

Louis Caput

Louis Caput
To person
Nickname	P'tit Louis
Date of birth	January 23, 1921
date of death	February 8, 1985
nation	France
discipline	Road cycling
Team (s)
1942–1944 1945 1946–1947 1948–1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957	Dilecta-Wolber Genial Lucifer Metropole-Dunlop Olympia-Dunlop Dilecta-Wolber Carrara-Dunlop Gitane-Hutchinson Rochet-Dunlop Arliguie-Hutchinson Saint-Raphael-R. Géminiani Essor-Leroux
Most important successes
Tour de France 1949 : 9th stage; 1955 : 14th stage of the national championships 1946 : French champion in road racing. Important cycling races 1948 : Paris − Tours 1952 : Eibarko Bizikleta 1955 : Paris − Limoges
Team (s) as sporting director
1966-1969	Kamomé dilecta

Louis Caput (born January 23, 1921 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , † February 8, 1985 in Paris ) was a French cyclist and sports director.

Even as an amateur, he achieved notable successes, especially in French races. He won the Grand Prix cycliste de L'Humanité in 1939, the Tour de Paris in 1941 and Paris– Alençon in 1945. Louis Caput had a 15-year career as a professional cycling enthusiast, from 1942 to 1957. In 1946 he was French road racing champion, won the races Boucles de la Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris-Reims . In 1948 he won at Paris-Tours and finished third at Liège-Bastogne-Liège . In 1949 he achieved a stage success in the Tour de France in San Sebastian .

In 1952 Caput won the overall ranking of the Basque Tour Euskal Bizikleta . Three years later, he won Paris-Limoges and decided one more tour stage for himself. In 1956 he won the Tour de Picardie .

At the end of 1957, Louis Caput resigned from active cycling and initially worked as a real estate agent. From 1966 to 1968 he was the sporting director of the Kamomé-Dilecta team , whose most famous driver in the first season was André Darrigade . The original sponsor, a Japanese washing machine manufacturer, soon couldn't pay any more, and the team was taken over by Jean de Gribaldy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Udo Witte: Campionissimo, Monsieur Chrono, Kannibale & Co .: Professional road bike races after 1945 - Volume 1 1946–1959. 2015, p. 105 , accessed March 19, 2015 . 
2. ^ Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs français depuis 1869 . Éditions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , p. 132 (French).
3. ↑ Team Kamomé-Dilecta in the database of Radsportseiten.net
4. ↑ La grande boucle a cent ans. Raymond Lebreton, ancien coureur du Tour se souvient on mairie-tourlaville.fr ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. (PDF; 1.0 MB) 

Web links

• Louis Caput in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Louis Caput in the Tour de France database(French / English )