Charles Coste (cyclist)

Charles Coste

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Full name	Charles Gustave Léonce Coste
Date of birth	February 8, 1924
nation	France
discipline	Train / street
Societies)
	Velo Club de Levallois
Most important successes
Olympic games 1948 - team pursuit
Last updated: January 4, 2017

Charles Gustave Léonce Coste (born February 8, 1924 in Ollioules ) is a former French cyclist and Olympic champion in cycling .

In 1947 Charles Coste became French amateur champion in the single pursuit . The following year he was together with Pierre Adam , Serge Blusson and Fernand Decanali at the Olympic Games in London Olympic champion in the team pursuit . In the same year he finished third in the single pursuit of the amateurs at the World Railroad Championships . He had previously won the French championship in team pursuit with his club VC de Lavallois .

From 1949 to 1959 Coste was a professional and mainly competed in road races. In 1949 he won the Grand Prix des Nations , 1953 Paris – Limoges and the Monaco Tour . In 1950 he finished fourth at Paris-Roubaix . He started three times at the Giro d'Italia , his best result was 40th place in 1956 . In 1952 and 1957 he took part in the Tour de France , but gave up both times early.

successes

1947

• French amateur champion - individual pursuit

1948

• Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit (with Pierre Adam , Serge Blusson and Fernand Decanali )
• World Championship - Individual Pursuit

1949

• Grand Prix des Nations

1952

• two stages Vuelta a la Argentina

1953

• Paris – Limoges

Web links

• Charles Coste in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Charles Coste in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Charles Coste in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 61/1948 . Cologne, S. 7 .