Désiré Letort
French cyclist
![]() Désiré Letort (1971), 'Sprint 71', Panini figurine n ° 84. | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Désiré Letort |
Born | (1943-01-29)29 January 1943 Corseul, France |
Died | 9 September 2012(2012-09-09) (aged 69) |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1970 | BIC |
1973 | Gitane-Frigécrème |
Désiré Letort (29 January 1943 – 9 September 2012) was a French cyclist.[1] His sporting career began with ACBB Paris. [2] His career best finishes in the Tour de France were 17th in 1971, 9th in 1969 and 4th in 1967.
Biography
Letort was born in Corseul. He won the French national road race championship in 1967, but after the race failed the doping tests.
Letort raced in eight Tours de France. He wore the yellow jersey in the 1969 Tour de France for one day after stage 5.[3]
Major results
- 1963
- French military champion
- Circuit des deux provinces [fr]
- 1966
- Paris–Camembert
- Sévignac
- 1967
failed doping testFrance national road race championship
- Sévignac
- 1968
- Critérium de Saint-Georges-de-Chesné
- 1969
- Ploerdut
- Laval
- Plancoet
- 1970
- Issé
- Hénon
- 1971
- Nice-Seillans
Grand tour results
Tour de France
- 1965 : DNF (=Did Not Finish)
- 1966 : 57
- 1967 : 4 (winner combativity award)
- 1968 : DNF
- 1969 : 9
- 1970 : DNF
- 1971 : 17
- 1972 : DNF
Vuelta a España
Giro d'Italia
- 1972 : DNF
References
External links
- "Palmarès" (in French). Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Désiré Letort at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results[permanent dead link]
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Tour de France combativity award winners
- 1956: André Darrigade
- 1957: Nicolas Barone
- 1958: Federico Bahamontes
- 1959: Gérard Saint
- 1960: Jean Graczyk
- 1961: Team West-Southwest
- 1962: Eddy Pauwels
- 1963: Rik Van Looy
- 1964: Henry Anglade
- 1965: Felice Gimondi
- 1966: Rudi Altig
- 1967: Désiré Letort
- 1968: Roger Pingeon
- 1969–1970: Eddy Merckx
- 1971: Luis Ocaña
- 1972: Cyrille Guimard
- 1973: Luis Ocaña
- 1974–1975: Eddy Merckx
- 1976: Raymond Delisle
- 1977: Gerrie Knetemann
- 1978: Paul Wellens
- 1979: Hennie Kuiper
- 1980: Christian Levavasseur
- 1981: Bernard Hinault
- 1982: Régis Clère
- 1983: Serge Demierre
- 1984: Bernard Hinault
- 1985: Maarten Ducrot
- 1986: Bernard Hinault
- 1987: Régis Clère
- 1988: Jérôme Simon
- 1989: Laurent Fignon
- 1990: Eduardo Chozas
- 1991–1992: Claudio Chiappucci
- 1993: Massimo Ghirotto
- 1994: Eros Poli
- 1995: Hernán Buenahora
- 1996–1997: Richard Virenque
- 1998–1999: Jacky Durand
- 2000: Erik Dekker
- 2001–2002: Laurent Jalabert
- 2003: Alexander Vinokourov
- 2004: Richard Virenque
- 2005: Óscar Pereiro
- 2006: David de la Fuente
- 2007: Amets Txurruka
- 2008: Sylvain Chavanel
- 2009: None
- 2010: Sylvain Chavanel
- 2011: Jérémy Roy
- 2012: Chris Anker Sørensen
- 2013: Christophe Riblon
- 2014: Alessandro De Marchi
- 2015: Romain Bardet
- 2016: Peter Sagan
- 2017: Warren Barguil
- 2018: Dan Martin
- 2019: Julian Alaphilippe
- 2020: Marc Hirschi
- 2021: Franck Bonnamour
- 2022: Wout van Aert
- 2023: Victor Campenaerts
- 2024: Richard Carapaz
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