Jacques Anquetil
Anquetil at the 1966 Giro d'Italia
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| Full name | Jacques Anquetil | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Monsieur Chrono Maître Jacques |
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8 January 1934 Mont-Saint-Aignan, Seine-Maritime, France |
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| Died | 18 November 1987 (aged 53) Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1950–1952 | AC Sottevillais | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1953–1955 | La Perle | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1958 | Helyett | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | ACBB Leroux | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Saint-Raphaël | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1966 | Ford-Gitane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1969 | Bic | ||||||||||||||||||
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Jacques Anquetil (pronounced: [ʒak ɑ̃k.til]; 8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964. He stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the yellow jersey on day one and wear it all through the tour, a tall order with two previous winners in the field—Charly Gaul and Federico Bahamontes—but he did it. His victories in stage races such as the Tour were built on an exceptional ability to ride alone against the clock in individual time trial stages, which lent him the name "Monsieur Chrono".
Anquetil was the son of a builder in Mont-Saint-Aignan, in the hills above Rouen in Normandy, north-west France. He lived there with his parents, Ernest and Marie, and his brother Philippe and then at Boisguillaume in a two-storey house, "one of those houses with exposed beams that tourists think are pretty but those who live there find uncomfortable."
In 1941, his father refused contracts to work on military installations for the German occupiers and his work dried up. Other members of the family worked in strawberry farming and Anquetil's father followed them, moving to the hamlet of Bourguet, near Quincampoix. Anquetil had his first bicycle – an Alcyon – at the age of four and twice a day rode the kilometre and a half to the village and back. There he was taught by a teacher wearing clogs in a classroom heated by a smoking stove.
Anquetil learned metal-turning at the technical college at Sotteville-lès-Rouen, a suburb of the city, where he played billiards with a friend named Maurice Dieulois. His friend joined the AC Sottevillais club with the encouragement of his father and began racing. Anquetil said:
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