Émile Idée

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Émile Idée

Émile Idée (born July 19, 1920 in Nouvion-le-Comte ) is a former French cyclist .

Émile Idée was a professional cyclist from 1941 to 1952. During these years he was twice - in 1942 and 1947 - French road racing champion . Five times - 1940, 1942, 1943, 1947 and 1949 - he won the two-day stage race Critérium National and thus holds the record together with Raymond Poulidor and Jens Voigt , in 1942 he won the individual time trial Grand Prix des Nations . At the UCI road world championships in Copenhagen in 1949 he finished eleventh, at the world championship the following year he was eighth. In 1941 and 1942 he was also French runner-up in the single pursuit on the track .

Idea started three times at the Tour de France ; at the event in 1949 he won a stage, but later gave up, as in his two previous participations. When he wanted to refuse to take part in the Circuit de France , a replacement event for the Tour, during the time of the German occupation in France, the organizer Jean Leulliot threatened him with the Gestapo , as he later reported.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cyclismag.com ( Memento from February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME Idée, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Nouvion-le-Comte