Camille Danguillaume

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Camille Danguillaume Road cycling
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Full name Camille Danguillaume
Date of birth June 4, 1919
date of death June 26, 1950
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Road cycling
Team (s)
1942-1950 Peugeot Dunlop
Most important successes
Road racing
1949 : Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Last updated: June 9, 2015

Camille Danguillaume (born June 4, 1919 in Châteaulin , † June 26, 1950 in Arpajon ) was a French cyclist.

Camille Danguillaume came from a cycling family: four brothers ( Andre , Marcel , Roland and Jean ), two nephews and two brothers-in-law, including Émile Idée , were also racing cyclists. One of his nephews is Jean-Pierre Danguillaume , multiple stage winner of the Tour de France and third in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships in 1975 .

Danguillaume was a professional from 1942 until his death in 1950. In 1946 and 1948 he won the Critérium International , in 1946 together with Kleber Piot . The greatest success of his career was his victory at Liège – Bastogne – Liège in 1949 (in which he was able to prevail against four Belgians), in the same year he was eighth at the 1949 UCI Road World Championships . He started the Tour de France three times, but never finished it.

In 1950 Camille Danguillaume started in the road race of the French road championships. During the final at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry , where he was in the lead with Louison Bobet and Antonin Rolland , he collided with a press motorcycle and crashed. He died in the hospital a few days later.

literature

  • Dominick Trouëssard: Les Danguillaume - Une grande famille du Cyclisme . Editions Alan Sutton 2009. ISBN 978-2813800107

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hervé Paturle, Guillaume Rebière: Un siècle de cyclisme . Calmann- Lévy, Paris 1997, p. 177 (French).
  2. ↑ Jacques AUGENDRE: Petites histoires secrètes du Tour .... Place Des Editeurs, ISBN 978-2-263-06995-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Danguillaume, Camille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chateaulin
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1950
Place of death Arpajon