Apo Lazaridès

Apo Lazaridès

Personal information
Full name	Jean-Apôtre Lazaridès
Born	(1925-10-16)16 October 1925 Marles-les-Mines, France
Died	30 October 1998(1998-10-30) (aged 73) Cannes, France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Major wins
Silver medal 1948 World Championship
Medal record Representing France Road bicycle racing World Championships 1948 Valkenburg Professional men's road race

Apo Lazaridès (16 October 1925 – 30 October 1998), was a French champion cyclist.

Born Jean-Apôtre Lazaridès in Marles-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais of Greek ancestries (became French in 1929), he cycled in the mountains as a boy. During the German occupation, Lazaridès used his cycling to transport supplies to the French Resistance.

Nicknamed "Apo", a short version of his middle name, he competed in races throughout France during the war. In 1946 Lazaridès finished fifth in the "Ronde de France", then won the most important competition of the year, the "La Course du Tour de France", a 1316 km race from Monaco to Paris. This was organised by the group who took charge of organisation of the Tour de France.

In the 1947 Tour, Lazaridès finished tenth but captured second overall in the mountain class. In 1948, he finished ninth and went on to take second place in the world championship. He retired in 1955 and moved to Cannes, where he was president of the Étoile Sportive de Cannes."

Lazaridès died in Cannes in 1998 and was buried there in the Cimetière du Grand Jas.

Palmarès

1943

Boucles de Sospel

1946

Marseille-Nice

La Course du Tour de France

1947

Tour de France:

10th place overall classification

1948

Silver medal World Championships

1949

Polymultipliée

Tour de France:

9th place overall classification

External links

• Apo Lazaridès at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Official Tour de France results for Apo Lazarides