Jean-Pierre Boulard

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Jean-Pierre Boulard (born December 3, 1942 in Epernay ) is a former French cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Boulard began cycling in 1959. His older brother Rene, who also raced, had encouraged him to go cycling. They started together for the La Pédale Châlonnaise association . In 1965 he celebrated his first important success with a victory in the traditional amateur race from Paris to Dreux . In 1967 he then won the championship race for amateurs in France. In autumn he started as an amateur in the individual time trial Grand Prix des Nations and finished eighth there. In 1968 he achieved the greatest success of his career by winning the Tour de l'Avenir by a large margin over the runner-up. He had previously competed in the team time trial at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City . The French team only ended up on the disappointed 15th place.

At the end of the 1968 season he had 70 wins in the Palmares of his career. In 1969, when he took part in the International Peace Drive and attacked the world hour record, he had great sporting goals. However, he had to discard both due to illness. In that season, however, he won another championship title when he won the team time trial in the French championship with his club. In 1971 he and his team won the title again.

From 1974 to 1979 he obtained a license from the Fédération sportive et gymnique du travail (FSGT) , the French workers' sports federation , which itself organized cycling races. Starting for this, he also won the Grand Prix cycliste de L'Humanité in 1975 , the most important cycle race of the FSGT, in which traditionally strong Eastern European teams took part.

Boulard was also a two-time road racing champion of the FSGT (1975 and 1976). At the end of the 1976 season, he ended his career.

Professional

Boulard trained as a painter. In later years he was the honorary president of his association.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pascal Sergent: Encyclopédie illustrée des coureurs Française depuis 1869 . Editions Eecloonaar, Eeklo 1998, ISBN 90-74128-15-7 , pp. 101 (French).
  2. ↑ a b German sports echo . Sportverlag, Berlin April 15, 1969, p. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Boulard, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist, national champion in cycling
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Epernay