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Bernard Hinault

Bernard Hinault
Bernard Hinault (1982).jpg
Hinault at the 1982 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name Bernard Hinault
Nickname Le Patron, Le Blaireau
Born (1954-11-14) 14 November 1954 (age 62)
Yffiniac, Brittany, France
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 12 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Professional team(s)
1975–1977 Gitane–Campagnolo
1978–1983 Renault–Elf–Gitane
1984–1986 La Vie Claire
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
General Classification (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985)
Points Classification (1979)
Mountain Classification (1986)
Combativity award (1981, 1984, 1986)
Combination Classification (1981, 1982)
28 individual stages (1978–1986)
Giro d'Italia
General Classification (1980, 1982, 1985)
6 individual stages (1980, 1982, 1985)
Vuelta a España
General Classification (1978, 1983)
7 individual stages (1978, 1983)

Stage races

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1977, 1979, 1981)
Tour de Romandie (1980)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (1980)
National Road Race Championships (1978)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1977, 1980)
Giro di Lombardia (1979, 1984)
Paris–Roubaix (1981)
La Flèche Wallonne (1979, 1983)
Gent–Wevelgem (1977)
Amstel Gold Race (1981)
Grand Prix des Nations (1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984)

Other

Super Prestige Pernod International (1979–1982)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Other

Bernard Hinault (pronounced: [bɛʁ.naʁ i.no]; born 14 November 1954) is a French former cyclist who won the Tour de France five times.

He is one of only six cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours, and one of two cyclists to have won each more than once (the other being Alberto Contador). He won the Tour de France in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985. He came second in 1984 and 1986 and won 28 stages, of which 13 were individual time trials. The other three to have achieved five Tour de France victories are Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain; of these, Hinault is the only one to have finished either first or second in each Tour de France he finished. He remains the last French winner of the Tour de France.

Hinault was nicknamed Le (either "the shaving brush" or "the badger"), as he would often do a hairband, thus resembling a shaving brush. However, his nickname is typically translated as "badger" by Anglophone cycling commentators and enthusiasts. In an interview in the French magazine Vélo, however, Hinault said the badger nickname had nothing to do with the animal. He said it was a local cyclists' way of saying "mate" or "buddy" in his youth – "How's it going, badger?" – and that it came to refer to him personally. According to Maurice Le Guilloux, a long-time team-mate of Hinault, he and Georges Talbourdet first used the nickname when the three riders trained together in their native Brittany in the early years of Hinault's professional career.


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