Paul Chocque

Paul Chocque

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Full name	Paul Chocque
Date of birth	July 14, 1910
date of death	September 4, 1949
nation	France
discipline	Track cycling, road cycling, cyclo-cross racing
Driver type	Endurance rider
Most important successes
Olympic games Team pursuit 1932 (with Amédée Fournier, Henri Mouillefarine and René Le Grevès)
Last updated: March 21, 2015

Paul Chocque (born July 14, 1910 in Meudon , † September 4, 1949 in Paris ) was a French cyclist .

In 1932 Paul Chocque competed on the track and on the road at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the team pursuit , he won the silver medal together with Amédée Fournier , Henri Mouillefarine and René Le Grevès . In the road race , he finished tenth in the individual and fifth in the team classification . In the same year he was third in the World Amateur Road Championships in Rome . The following year he won the Wolber Grand Prix .

Then Chocque became a professional . In 1936 he won Bordeaux – Paris and the Critérium International , in 1936 and 1938 he was French cross-country champion . He competed in the Tour de France twice - in 1935 and 1937 . In 1935 he was 31st overall, in 1937 he finished seventh and won a stage and a half stage.

Paul Chocque died at the age of 39 after falling in a standing race at the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris.

Web links

• Paul Chocque in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Paul Chocque in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Paul Chocque in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• ACVFTI - Paul Chocque à Viroflay. In: cartophilie-viroflay.org. Retrieved March 21, 2015 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 220 .