Guy Lapébie
Appearance
![]() Lapébie (2nd left) at the 1936 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Guy Lapébie | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Saint-Geours-de-Maremne, France | 28 November 1916||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 March 2010 Bagnères-de-Luchon, France | (aged 93)||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Guy Lapébie (28 November 1916 – 8 March 2010) was a French cyclist, who won two gold and one silver medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics. After World War II he became a professional road racer.[1][2]
Lapébie's elder brother was Tour de France winner Roger Lapébie. Guy's son Serge (1948–1991) was also a professional cyclist.[3]
Major results
[edit]- 1936
Olympic Champion 4000m team pursuit
Olympic Champion Team road race
second place Olympic individual road race
- 1945
- Zürich-Lausanne
- 1946
- GP du Locle
- Tour des 3 Lacs
- 1948
- Six days of Paris (with Arthus Sérès)
- 1948
- Six days of Paris (with Achiel Bruneel)
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 3
- 3rd place overall classification
- 1949
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 8
- 1950
- Six days of Saint-Etienne (with Achiel Bruneel)
- 1951
- Six days of Hannover (with Emile Carrara)
- Six days of Berlin (with Emile Carrara)
- 1952
- Six days of Berlin (with Emile Carrara)
References
[edit]- ^ Duby, Julien (8 March 2010). "L'ancien champion cycliste bordelais Guy Lapébie est mort". Sud Ouest (in French). Archived from the original on 9 March 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Guy Lapébie". Sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Roger, Guy et Serge Lapebie". Pyrenees-passion.info (in French). Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guy Lapébie.
- Guy Lapébie at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Guy Lapébie
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- 1916 births
- 2010 deaths
- Sportspeople from Landes (department)
- Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- French male cyclists
- French Tour de France stage winners
- Olympic cyclists for France
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- French track cyclists
- Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- French cycling biography, 1910s birth stubs
- French cycling Olympic medalist stubs