Dominique Motte

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Dominique Motte (born September 22, 1939 in Bois-Guillaume , † June 29, 2019 in Saint-Jean-le-Blanc ) was a French cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Motte started as an amateur for the AC Sotteville club . With his club he was French team time trial champion in 1958 and 1962 . In 1963 he achieved the greatest success of his career when he became world champion in the team time trial (with Michel Bechet , Georges Chappe and Marcel-Ernest Bidault ) in Ronse, Belgium . The year before, he was ranked sixth with the French team. In the national one-day races he won the Grand Prix Parisienne and the Tour de l`Yonne in 1962 . In 1965 he became a professional driver in the Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune team , where he drove alongside Henri Anglade , among others .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Dominique Alain Motte in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on June 21, 2020.
  2. ^ Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 542 .