Jean-Pierre Danguillaume

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Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Road cycling
Interview with Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (2010)
Interview with Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (2010)
To person
Date of birth May 25, 1946
nation FranceFrance France
doping
1974 Amphetamines
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
1975 bronze - Road race of professionals
Tour de France - stage winner
1970 : 22nd stage
1971 : 18th stage
1973 : 6th stage
1974 : 17. u. 18th stage
1977 : 11th and 13th stage
Last updated: March 13, 2017

Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (born May 25, 1946 in Joué-lès-Tours ) is a former French cyclist .

biography

Jean-Pierre Danguillaume comes from a family of cyclists: his father and four of his uncles, including Camille Danguillaume , were active on the bike. He was also related to the two-time French road champion, Émile Idée . His brother Jean-Louis Danguillaume was also a successful amateur cyclist. In his book Abécédaire insolite du Tour , the journalist Jacques Augendre wrote that it was “the greatest family in cycling”, with the most (1800) victories. By his own count, he achieved the family's 1,000th victory when he won the ninth stage of the International Peace Tour on May 21, 1969. Danguillaume himself said he was "vaccinated" with cycling. He got his first bike when he was five years old and when he was about 14 he started cycling, “that was natural”. In 1965 he became a member of the French national team.

In 1967 Danguillaume won a stage of the Tour of Scotland . The following year he started in the team time trial at the Olympic Games in Mexico and finished 15th together with Jean-Pierre Boulard , Robert Bouloux and Claude le Chatellier .

The following year, Danguillaume was the last Frenchman to win the International Peace Tour , the most important cycling race for amateurs at the time . Then he went over to the professionals and signed a contract with Peugeot , where Bernard Thévenet also drove. Danguillaume stayed with this team until the end of his career in 1978. With the professionals he was able to achieve 68 victories in eight years, including seven stages of the Tour de France and the bronze medal in the road race at the road cycling world championships in 1975.

Jean-Pierre Danguillaume tested positive for amphetamines in 1974 .

After finishing his professional career, Danguillaume received the position of sporting director in the Mercier team , from which he was dismissed after six years for economic reasons. He then worked in public relations and as a project manager for Coca-Cola , initially only for the Tour de France , then for all sports. In January 2017, a fire broke out in the attic of his house in Joué-lès-Tours; Most of the memorabilia from his cycling days were lost due to the fire.

Successes (selection)

1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España - 31 - - 7th - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 64 18th 21st 22nd 13 DNF 22nd 35 DNG
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

literature

  • Dominick Trouëssard: Les Danguillaume - Une grande famille du Cyclisme . Editions Alan Sutton. Collection Mémoire en Images, 2009, ISBN 978-2-8138-0010-7 .

Web links

Commons : Jean-Pierre Danguillaume  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Danguillaume, le conquérant à bicyclette. In: jouelestours.blog.lemonde.fr. Retrieved March 13, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ German sports echo . Sportverlag, Berlin May 26, 1969, p. 3 .
  3. ^ Sébastien Bussière: Les souvenirs perdus de Jean-Pierre Danguillaume. In: lanouvellerepublique.fr. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Danguillaume, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Joué-lès-Tours