Jean de Gribaldy

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Jean de Gribaldy (1980)
Jean de Gribaldy (1980)
To person
Nickname le Vicomte or de Gri
Date of birth July 22, 1922
date of death 2nd January 1987
nation France
discipline Road cycling
Societies)
Velo Club de Pontarlier
Team (s)
1945–1949
1951
1951–1954 		Peugeot-Dunlop
Mervil
Terrot
Team (s) as sporting director
1964
1965


1966–1967
1968
1969
1970

1971
1972
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981–1982
1983
1984
1985
1986 		Grammont-De Gribaldy
Grammont-Motoconfort,
Tigra-Meltina,
Wolhauser-Cafés Ravis
Tigra-Grammont
Frimatic-Wolber
Frimatic-Viva
Frimatic-De Gribaldy
Wolhauser-Ravis
Hoover-De Gribaldy
Van Cauter-Magniflex-De Gribaldy
Miko-De Gribaldy
Miko-De Gribaldy Miko-De Gribaldy Gribaldy-Superia
Flandria-Velda
Flandria-Velda-Lano
Flandria-Ca-va seul-Sunair
Puch-Campagnolo
Sem-France Loire-Campagnolo
Sem-France Loire-Mavic
Skil-Reydel-Sem-Mavic
Skil-Sem
Kas-Mavic

Jean de Gribaldy (born July 22, 1922 in Besançon , † January 2, 1987 in Voray-sur-l'Ognon ) was a French cyclist , sporting director and team manager of cycling teams .

Athletic career as a driver

Jean de Gribaldy came from a noble family from Piedmont and carried the title of Viscount . He trained as a watchmaker . At the age of nine, he saw the French racing driver Antonin Magne in Morteau in the yellow leadership jersey of the Tour de France and decided to become a cyclist. In 1939 he joined the Vélo Club de Pontarlier ; In 1944 he won the Doubs road championship and the Montereau-Paris race . He was an excellent mountain rider with the typical slim build (1.65 meters, 64 kilograms).

In 1945 de Gribaldy became a professional and drove for the Peugeot-Dunlop team until 1949 , becoming a teammate of well-known drivers such as Ferdy Kübler and Louis Gérardin in the following years . He competed in the Tour de France three times - in 1947, 1948 and 1952 - but was unable to place prominently. He had to retire from exhaustion at the 1948 Tour de France when the race passed his own house. The best placements of his career in major races were a ninth place in 1946 at Paris – Nice and a tenth in 1952 at Liège – Bastogne – Liège . In 1947 he became French runner-up in road racing .

After a fall and fracture of the shoulder blade in the Paris-Valenciennes race, Jean de Gribaldy ended his active cycling career.

Career as a sports director

From 1964 Jean de Gribaldy worked as a sports director for various teams. He took over the first team at the request of sports journalist and organizer Jean Leulliot . Until 1967, de Gribaldy looked after teams that consisted of professional racers without a team or amateurs without a category. The composition of the teams varied depending on the race.

In 1968, de Gribaldy was offered the leadership of the Frimatic-Viva-de Gribaldy Equipe , his first, which consisted mainly of professionals. He soon made a name for himself for having an unerring instinct for future champions. Among his many discoveries were the Irishman Sean Kelly , the Portuguese Joaquim Agostinho and the Dutchman Steven Rooks , who won Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 1983 as a practical stranger , as well as the later Tour de France winner Bernard Thévenet or the Vuelta winner from 1984, Éric Caritoux . The racing driver and today's Eurosport commentator Jean-Claude Leclercq also drove in a team from de Gribaldy. He had a particularly close relationship with Agostinho, who fell fatally on the Tour of Portugal in 1984 ; the two men were inseparable for many years in terms of sport. De Gribaldy successfully gave a new chance to many drivers who had been sacked by other teams. Until 1986 he worked as a sports director and was respected by everyone. It was thanks to him that the 1980 UCI Track World Championships were held in Besançon .

De Gribaldy's hobby was aviation. He was friends with many prominent representatives from music and film, such as B. with Johnny Hallyday , Michel Sardou and Jean-Paul Belmondo . Since 1994 there has been "la Montée Jean de Gribaldy" named after him in his hometown Besançon , which leads up a hill and therefore reminds of his qualities as a mountain climber. In the 1990s, the Jean de Gribaldy Trophy was held, which was won by Christophe Moreau , among others .

literature

  • Pierre Diéterlé, Jean de Gribaldy, la légende du Vicomte. Editions du Sekoya, Besançon 2014, ISBN 978-2-84751-137-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gribaldy, Jean de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist and sports director
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1987
Place of death Voray-sur-l'Ognon