Antonin Magne
Magne in 1931
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| Full name | Antonin Magne | |||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Tonin le sage (Tonin the Sage), Tontin le taciturne (Tonin the Taciturn) | |||||||||||||||
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15 January 1904 Ytrac, France |
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| Died | 8 September 1983 (aged 79) Arcachon, France |
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
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Antonin Magne (pronounced: [ɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ̃ maɲ]; 15 February 1904 – 8 September 1983) was a French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934. He raced as a professional from 1927 to 1939 and then became a team manager. The French rider and then journalist, Jean Bobet, described him in Sporting Cyclist as "a most uninterviewable character" and "a man who withdraws into a shell as soon as he meets a journalist." His taciturn character earned him the nickname of The Monk when he was racing.
Magne was part of the Alleluia Team which, with Pierre Magne, Julien Moineau, Marius Gallotini, Arsène Alancourt, and André Cauet, won the 1927 GP Wolber, considered the unofficial world road race championship.
Magne first rode the Tour in 1927, alongside André Leducq in the France team. His two victories in the Tour had a dramatic quality because of the crashes, falls, bad luck and competition that he faced. He crashed in 1931 and was repeatedly attacked by the Italian Pesanti and the Belgian, Jef Demuysere. He finished the race so exhausted that he didn't start again next year. In 1934 he won again with the help of René Vietto, Georges Speicher and Roger Lapébie. Magne was the first rider to win a time trial in the Tour de France, over 80 km from La Roche-sur-Yon to Nantes in 1934.
In 1936 he came second in the Tour and then won the world championship on the road.
He won the Grand Prix des Nations, the unofficial world championship of the individual time trial, in 1934, 1935 and 1936.
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