Boucles de la Seine-Saint-Denis

The Boucles de la Seine-Saint-Denis was a French cycle race in the Seine-Saint-Denis department .

The one-day race was held for the first time in 1945 and was held annually until 1973 with a few interruptions. The Frenchman Joseph Groussard won most often (1958, 1961 and 1962). His compatriot, the three-time Tour de France winner Louison Bobet , won the event in 1947.

The tradition of racing was resumed once again on the occasion of the 1998 World Cup . The race was held on May 31, 1998 as part of the Coupe de France racing series and won by the Belgian Tony Bracke ahead of the French Jimmy Casper and the Estonian Lauri Aus .

winner

1945 Louis Gauthier 1946 Louis Caput 1947 Louison Bobet 1948 Urbain Caffi 1949 Robert Dorgebray 1950 Maurice Diot 1951 Attilio Redolfi 1952 Maurice Quentin 1953 Armand Audaire 1954 Robert Varnajo 1955 Albert Bouvet

1956 René private 1957 Jacques Dupont 1958 Joseph Groussard 1959 Roger Hassenforder 1960 Marcel Rohrbach 1961 Joseph Groussard 1962 Joseph Groussard 1963 not held 1964 Jean Anastasi 1965 Louis Rostollan

1966 Jean-Louis Bodin 1967 Anatole Novak 1968 not held 1969 Bernard Guyot 1970 Jean-Pierre Genet 1971 Gérard Moneyron 1972 not held 1973 Robert Mintkiewicz 1974–1997 not held 1998 Tony Bracke

Individual evidence

1. ↑ memoire-du-cyclisme.net: Boucles de la Seine-Saint-Denis (page accessed on July 14, 2008)

Web links

• Boucles de la Seine-Saint-Denis in the Radsportseiten.net database