René Pottier

René Pottier (r.) After his Tour victory in 1906, on the left the second Georges Passerieu

René Pottier (born June 5, 1879 in Moret-sur-Loing , † January 25, 1907 in Levallois-Perret ) was a French cyclist .

In 1903 he won the Bordeaux – Paris race in the amateur class. He is considered the first mountain specialist in the Tour de France . On the Ballon d'Alsace in the Vosges a plaque commemorates Pottier. When he won the Tour in 1906 , he also won five stages, four of them in a row.

In January 1907, just six months after his tour triumph, Pottier committed suicide by hanging himself in the garage of the bicycle factory whose bikes he rode. Employees found him hanging on the hook on which his bike usually hung. Lovesickness was assumed to be the reason.

Web links

Commons : René Pottier - collection of images, videos and audio files

René Pottier in the Radsportseiten.net database

Palmarès - List of achievements and placements

René Pottier on cycling4fans.de

René Pottier in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Verlag Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1508 (Flemish).
↑ Sport-Album der Rad-Welt 1907. 6th year, Berlin 1908, p. 34/35.
^ Philippe Conrate, Pascal Sergent: Entre Paris et Roubaix. Petites histories d'une grande classique . Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyre-Sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-411-6 , p. 31 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pottier, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moret-sur-Loing
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1907
Place of death	Levallois-Perret

[1] Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Verlag Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1508 (Flemish).

[2] Sport-Album der Rad-Welt 1907. 6th year, Berlin 1908, p. 34/35.

[3] Philippe Conrate, Pascal Sergent: Entre Paris et Roubaix. Petites histories d'une grande classique . Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyre-Sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-411-6 , p. 31 .