Jean Jourden

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Jean Jourden in March 2013

Jean Jourden (born July 11, 1942 in Saint-Brieuc ) is a former French cyclist .

Jourden had a sometimes dramatic and difficult childhood. He fled domestic violence with his brother and lived in a self-built hut. Nevertheless, he pursued his dream of becoming a cyclist. At the age of 15, he met Jacques Anquetil on a training drive , whom his fate touched and who recognized his talent. Anquetil brought him up with a cycling enthusiast family and brought him together with his trainer Boucher. 1961 was the most successful year in Jean Jourden's cycling career: at the UCI road world championships in 1961 in Bern , at the age of 19, he won the world title in the amateur road race , won the Giro del Mendrisiotto , the Route de France and became French champions in team time trial . In 1964 he was again French champion in the team time trial and won the French season opening race from Paris to Ezy , which saw the elite of French amateurs together for the first time that year.

In 1965 Jourden went into professional life, where he received his first contract with Jacques Anquetil's FORD-France team. A year later he went to MERCIER-BP to support Raymond Poulidor . He was able to achieve 12 victories in the Professionels, but there were no major successes. He started twice in the Tour de France , but gave up each time. In 1968 he won the Polymultipliée , the Four Days of Dunkirk and the Grand Prix de Plouay Ouest-France , which he won again in 1969. In 1970 he won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues .

After the 1972 season wearing the Peugeot-BP jersey, Jean Jourden resigned from cycling and opened a bicycle shop in Pont-Audemer .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 12/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 20 .
  2. ^ Fédération Française de Cyclisme (Ed.): La France Cycliste . Paris March 19, 1964, p. 2 (French).

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