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Georges Speicher

Georges Speicher
1933 SpeicherLeducq.jpg
Personal information
Full name Georges Speicher
Born (1907-06-08)8 June 1907
Paris, France
Died 24 January 1978(1978-01-24) (aged 70)
Maisons-Laffitte, France
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
General Classification (1933)
9 stages

One-day races and Classics

Road Race World Championships (1933)

Grand Tours

One-day races and Classics

Georges Speicher (pronounced: [ʒɔʁʒ spɛ.ʃe]; 8 June 1907 – 24 January 1978) was a French cyclist who won the 1933 Tour de France along with three stage wins, and the 1933 World Cycling Championship.

After Speicher had won the 1933 Tour de France, he was initially not selected for the 1933 UCI Road World Championships. Only after a French cyclist that had been selected dropped out, Speicher was brought in as a replacement at the last notice, and won the race. Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year.



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