Gustave Pasquier

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Gustave Pasquier Road cycling
To person
Date of birth October 7, 1877
date of death April 6, 1965
nation FranceFrance France
Most important successes

Third Bordeaux – Paris 1903 (uncertain)
Eighth Tour de France 1903

Gustave Pasquier (born October 7, 1877 in Saulces-Monclin , † April 6, 1965 in Rethel ) was a French cyclist .

Pasquier took part in cycling races between 1903 and 1910 . In 1903 he could have taken third place behind Hippolyte Aucouturier and Léon Georget in the classic Bordeaux – Paris . In the same year he started the first Tour de France . Pasquier finished the fifth stage of the tour in second behind Maurice Garin . In the overall ranking of the tour , the Frenchman finally finished eighth. In addition, Pasquier took part in the Tour de France in 1905 and 1910 ; he gave up during the third stage.

The participant in the 1903 Tour de France is often referred to as Arthur or Georges Pasquier. In 2003, based on an interview 42 years earlier, the daily newspaper Liberation confirmed Gustave as a participant.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Research by Gustave Pasquier. Acte de naissance, p. 150/167. In: archives.cg08.fr. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ This may also have been Arthur Pasquier, see Bordeaux-Paris (Fra) - Ex. , Accessed on July 20, 2013 (French).
  3. ↑ so also in: Jean-Paul Vespini: Le Premier Tour de France: Tout a commencé en 1903. Editions Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2847244663 .
  4. ^ Charleville lumières (July 7, 2003), accessed July 20, 2013 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Pasquier, Gustave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Saulces-Monclin , France
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1965
Place of death Rethel , France