André Darrigade (born April 24, 1929 in Narrosse , Département Landes ) is a former French cyclist .
Athletic career
In his time as an amateur, he also competed in track races. In 1949 he defeated Antonio Maspes in a sprinter match for the Paris medal. He was one of the most successful sprinters of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the points classification twice and 22 stages of the Tour de France . He was both road world champion and French champion once . Between 1951 and 1966 he won a total of 138 races.
On flat terrain, Darrigade was usually superior to the competition. In the Tour de France alone, he won 22 stages. No less than five of them on the first day; in this regard, nobody has been able to overtake him until today. In 1959 and 1961 he wore the green jersey as the winner of the points classification as far as Paris . In total, he took part in the Tour de France 14 times in a row; he only had to give up the race once.
On the last day of the 1958 Tour de France , Darrigade was involved in a fatal accident. In Paris' Parc des Princes , he raced into Constant Wouters, the stadium director, who had taken a step too far and died eleven days later from his injuries. Darrigade got away with a head laceration.
Outside of France, Darrigade rarely won. Significant exceptions are the victory of the Tour of Lombardy in 1956 and the win of the world championship title in 1959 in Zandvoort, the Netherlands . The two years before that he had finished third at the World Cup. In the 1960 road cycling world championship at the Sachsenring , he finished second behind Belgian Rik Van Looy .
Private
Darrigade opened a hotel in Dax that he ran with his wife. His brother Roger Darrigade was also a cyclist and at times rode with him in a racing stable . Darrigade received the Prix Orange from the French press in 1959 for being particularly kind to the press (the prize was awarded annually to a French athlete).
Most important victories
Grand Tour placements
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Web links
Individual evidence
↑ Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1965 . Grenchen 1965, p. 169 .
↑ a b Association of German Cyclists (ed.): Cycling . No. 35/1959 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1959, p. 2 .
1927, 1930, 1932 Alfredo Binda | 1928, 1929 Georges Ronsse | 1931 Learco Guerra | 1933 Georges Speicher | 1934 Karel Kaers | 1935 Jean Aerts | 1936 Antonin Magne | 1937 Eloi Meulenberg | 1938 Marcel Kint | 1946 Hans Knecht | 1947 Theofiel Middelkamp | 1948, 1950 Briek Schotte | 1949, 1956, 1957 Rik Van Steenbergen | 1951 Ferdy Kübler | 1952 Heinz Müller | 1953 Fausto Coppi | 1954 Louison Bobet | 1955 Stan Ockers | 1958 Ercole Baldini | 1959 André Darrigade | 1960, 1961 Rik Van Looy | 1962 Jean Stablinski | 1963 Benoni Beheyt | 1964 Jan Janssen | 1965 Tom Simpson | 1966 Rudi Altig | 1967, 1971, 1974 Eddy Merckx | 1968 Vittorio Adorni | 1969 Harm Ottenbros | 1970 Jean-Pierre Monseré | 1972 Marino Basso | 1973 Felice Gimondi | 1975 Hennie Kuiper | 1976, 1981 Freddy Maertens | 1977 Francesco Moser | 1978 Gerrie Knetemann | 1979 Jan Raas | 1980 Bernard Hinault | 1982 Giuseppe Saronni | 1983, 1989 Greg LeMond | 1984 Claude Criquielion | 1985 Joop Zoetemelk | 1986 Moreno Argentin | 1987 Stephen Roche | 1988 Maurizio Fondriest | 1990 Rudy Dhaenens | 1991, 1992 Gianni Bugno | 1993 Lance Armstrong | 1994 Luc Leblanc | 1995 Abraham Olano | 1996 Johan Museeuw | 1997 Laurent Brochard | 1998 Oscar Camenzind | 1999, 2001, 2004 Óscar Freire | 2000 Romāns Vainšteins | 2002 Mario Cipollini | 2003 Igor Astarloa | 2005 Tom Boonen | 2006, 2007 Paolo Bettini | 2008 Alessandro Ballan | 2009 Cadel Evans | 2010 Thor Hushovd | 2011 Mark Cavendish | 2012 Philippe Gilbert | 2013 Rui Costa | 2014 Michał Kwiatkowski | 2015, 2016, 2017 Peter Sagan | 2018 Alejandro Valverde | 2019 Mads Pedersen
1905 Giovanni Gerbi | 1906 Cesare Brambilla | 1907 Gustave Garrigou | 1908 François Faber | 1909 Giovanni Cuniolo | 1910 Giovanni Micheletto | 1911, 1913, 1920 Henri Pélissier | 1912 Carlo Orliani | 1914 Lauro Bordin | 1915, 1918, 1928 Gaetano Belloni | 1916 Leopoldo Torricelli | 1917 Philippe Thys | 1919, 1921, 1922 Costante Girardengo | 1923, 1924 Giovanni Brunero | 1925, 1926, 1927, 1931 Alfredo Binda | 1929 Pietro Fossati | 1930 Michele Mara | 1932 Antonio Negrini | 1933 Domenico Piemontesi | 1934 Learco Guerra | 1935 Enrico Mollo | 1936, 1939, 1940 Gino Bartali | 1937, 1942 Aldo Bini | 1938 Cino Cinelli | 1941, 1945 Mario Ricci | 1943–1944 not held | 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954 Fausto Coppi | 1950 Renzo Soldani | 1952 Giuseppe Minardi | 1953 Bruno Landi | 1955 Cleto Maule | 1956 André Darrigade | 1957 Diego Ronchini | 1958 Nino Defilippis | 1959 Rik Van Looy | 1960 Emile Daems | 1961 Vito Toccani | 1962, 1963 Jo de Roo | 1964 Gianni Motta | 1965 Tom Simpson | 1966, 1973 Felice Gimondi | 1967, 1970 Franco Bitossi | 1968 Herman Van Springel | 1969 Jean-Pierre Monseré | 1971, 1972 Eddy Merckx | 1974, 1976 Roger De Vlaeminck | 1975, 1978 Francesco Moser | 1977, 1986 Gianbattista Baronchelli | 1979, 1984 Bernard Hinault | 1980 Alfons De Wolf | 1981 Hennie Kuiper | 1982 Giuseppe Saronni | 1983, 1985, 1991 Sean Kelly | 1987 Moreno Argentin | 1988 Charly Mottet | 1989, 1992 Tony Rominger | 1990 Gilles Delion | 1993 Pascal Richard | 1994 Wladislaw Bobrik | 1995 Gianni Faresin | 1996 Andrea Tafi | 1997 Laurent Jalabert | 1998 Oscar Camenzind | 1999 Mirko Celestino | 2000 Raimondas Rumšas | 2001 Danilo Di Luca | 2002, 2003 Michele Bartoli | 2004, 2007, 2008 Damiano Cunego | 2005, 2006 Paolo Bettini | 2009, 2010 Philippe Gilbert | 2011 Oliver Zaugg | 2012, 2013 Joaquim Rodríguez | 2014 Daniel Martin | 2015, 2017 Vincenzo Nibali | 2016 Esteban Chaves | 2018 Thibaut Pinot | 2019 Bauke Mollema | 2020 Jakob Fuglsang
1907, 1908 Gustave Garrigou | 1909, 1920 Jean Alavoine | 1910 Émile Georget | 1911, 1912, 1913 Octave Lapize | 1914 Charles Crupelandt | 1919 Henri Pélissier | 1921, 1923, 1924 Francis Pélissier | 1922 Jean Brunier | 1925, 1926 Achille Souchard | 1927, 1928 Ferdinand Le Drogo | 1929 Marcel Bidot | 1930 Roger Bisseron | 1931 Armand Blanchonnet | 1932 André Godinat | 1933 Roger Lapébie | 1934 Raymond Louviot | 1935, 1937, 1939 Georges Speicher | 1936 René Le Grevès | 1938, 1943 Paul Maye | 1941 Albert Goutal (BZ) | 1941 René Vietto (NBZ) | 1942, 1947 Émile Idée | 1944 Urbain Caffi | 1945 Eloi Tassin | 1946 Louis Caput | 1948 César Marcelak | 1949 Jean Rey | 1950, 1951 Louison Bobet | 1952 Adolphe Deledda | 1953 Raphaël Géminiani | 1954 Jacques Dupont | 1955 André Darrigade | 1956 Bernard Gauthier | 1957, 1958 Valentin Huot | 1959, 1965 Henry Anglade | 1960, 1962–1964 Jean Stablinski | 1961 Raymond Poulidor | 1966 Jean-Claude Theilliere | 1967, 1968 Lucien Aimar | 1969 Raymond Delisle | 1970, 1971 Cyrille Guimard | 1972, 1979 Roland Berland | 1973 Bernard Thévenet | 1974 Georges Talbourdet | 1975 Régis Ovion | 1976 Guy Sibille | 1977 Marcel Tinazzi | 1978 Bernard Hinault | 1980 Pierre-Raymond Villemiane | 1981 Serge Beucherie | 1982 Régis Clère | 1983 Marc Gomez | 1984 Laurent Fignon | 1985 Jean-Claude Leclercq | 1986 Yvon Madiot | 1987 Marc Madiot | 1988, 1989 Eric Caritoux | 1990 Philippe Louviot | 1991 Armand de Las Cuevas | 1992 Luc Leblanc | 1993, 1994 Jacky Durand | 1995 Eddy Seigneur | 1996 Stéphane Heulot | 1997 Stéphane Barthe | 1998 Laurent Jalabert | 1999 François Simon | 2000 Christophe Capelle | 2001, 2003 Didier Rous | 2002, 2008 Nicolas Vogondy | 2004, 2010 Thomas Voeckler | 2005 Pierrick Fédrigo | 2006 Florent Brard | 2007 Christophe Moreau | 2009 Dimitri Champion | 2011 Sylvain Chavanel | 2012 Nacer Bouhanni | 2013, 2016 Arthur Vichot | 2014, 2017, 2020 Arnaud Démare | 2015 Steven Tronet | 2018 Anthony Roux | 2019 Warren Barguil
Note: In 1941 there were two events, one in the occupied zone (BZ) and one in the unoccupied zone (NBZ).
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