Robert Dorgebray

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Robert Drogebray Road cycling
To person
Date of birth October 16, 1915
date of death September 29, 2005
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Street
Societies)
VC Auvers-sur-Oise
Team (s)
1942-1944
1945-1952 		Mercier-Hutchinson
Peugeot-Dunlop
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games
1936 : gold- team competition (with Guy Lapébie and Robert Charpentier )

Robert Dorgebray (born October 16, 1915 in Nesles-la-Vallée , † September 29, 2005 in Paris ) was a French cyclist .

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , Robert Dorgebray won the gold medal in the team classification of the road race together with Guy Lapébie and Robert Charpentier . In the individual ranking, he finished fourth. In 1939 he was third in the French championship in road racing for amateurs . At the road world championship in the same year he was 20th.

Dorgebray turned professional in 1942 . The following year he was French runner-up in cyclo-cross racing . In 1945 he won the GP des Alliés , in 1946 the Circuit de l'Indre , in 1947 the Paris – Camembert race and in 1949 the Boucles de la Seine-Saint-Denis .

Robert Dorgebray competed in the Tour de France three times - in 1947 , 1949 and 1950 - but never reached Paris. In 1952 he resigned from active cycling.

After finishing his cycling career, Dorgebray opened a restaurant in Paris, later he ran a bike shop in Rouen and a hotel in Port-Villez , before returning to Paris to open a café.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorgebray, le champion de Nesles. Le Parisien , November 10, 2012, accessed February 5, 2014 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Dorgebray, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Nesles-la-Vallée
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2005
Place of death Paris