André Leducq

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André Leducq
André Leducq photographed by Agence Meurisse in 1929
Personal information
Full nameAndré Leducq
NicknameLe joyeux Dédé (The joyful Dédé)
Dédé gueule d'amour et muscles d'acier
Born(1904-02-27)27 February 1904
Saint-Ouen, France
Died18 June 1980(1980-06-18) (aged 76)
Marseille, France
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1930, 1932)
25 individual stages (1927-1933, 1935, 1938)

Stage races

Critérium International (1933)

One-day races and Classics

National Amateur Championships (1925)
Paris–Roubaix (1928)
Paris–Tours (1931)
Paris–Troyes (1923)
Paris–Le Havre (1928)
Paris–Caen (1930)
Critérium des As (1934)
Medal record
Representing  France
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1924 Paris team time trial
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1924 Paris Amateur's Road Race

André Leducq (pronounced [ɑ̃.dʁe lə.dyk]; 27 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932 Tours de France. He also won a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the team road race event[1] and the 1928 Paris–Roubaix.[2]

Career[edit]

1933: Leducq helped by Speicher

Leducq was born at Saint-Ouen. He was world champion in 1924 as an amateur before turning professional in 1927. The following year he won Paris–Roubaix and was second in the Tour de France, becoming popular for his humour. His other victories included two Tours de France (he won 25 stages in nine rides) and the 1931 Paris–Tours. He has the fourth-highest number of stage wins in the Tour de France (behind Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Mark Cavendish).

After his retirement, he founded a professional cycling team that raced in the 1950s.

Career achievements[edit]

Major results[edit]

1927
Tour de France
4th overall
Stage 6, 23 and 24 wins
1928
Tour de France
2nd overall
Stage 2, 10, 11 and 16 wins
Paris–Roubaix
1929
Tour de France
1 day in yellow jersey
Stage 2, 11, 17, 18 and 21 wins
1930
Tour de France
1st overall
13 days in yellow jersey
Stage 5 and 16 wins
1931
Tour de France
10th overall
Stage 20 win
Paris–Tours
1932
Tour de France
1st overall
19 days in yellow jersey
Stage 3, 11, 13, 15, 20 and 21 wins
1933
Tour de France
31st overall
Stage 13 and 14 wins
Critérium International
1935
Tour de France
17th overall
Stage 18b ITT win
1938
Tour de France
2 days in yellow jersey
Stage 21 win (joint with Antonin Magne)

Grand Tour results timeline[edit]

1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
Giro d'Italia DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE
Stages won
Mountains classification N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Tour de France 4 2 11 1 10 1 31 DNE 17 DNE DNE 30
Stages won 3 4 5 2 1 6 2 1 1
Mountains classification N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A NR NR NR
Vuelta a España N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A DNE DNE N/A N/A
Stages won
Mountains classification
Legend
1 Winner
2–3 Top three-finish
4–10 Top ten-finish
11– Other finish
DNE Did not enter
DNF-x Did not finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-x Did not start (not started on stage x)
HD Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x)
DSQ Disqualified
N/A Race/classification not held
NR Not ranked in this classification

References[edit]

  1. ^ "André Leducq Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  2. ^ "André Leducq". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 October 2021.

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