Raymond Delisle
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond Delisle |
| Born |
11 March 1943 Ancteville, France |
| Died | 11 August 2013 (aged 70) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncher-climber |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1959–1964 | Periers-Sports |
| AC Boulogne-Billancourt | |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1965–1976 | Peugeot |
| 1977 | Miko-Mercier |
| Major wins | |
| 2 stages in the Tour de France French National Road Race Champion (1969) |
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Raymond Delisle (11 March 1943 – 11 August 2013) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He is the only rider to have won a stage of the Tour de France on 14 July, France's national day, while wearing the jersey of national champion.
Born in Ancteville, Delisle started racing as an amateur in 1961 and won the Tour du Lac Leman classic in 1963 and the national team time-trial championship in 1964, with Jean Jourden. He turned professional in 1965. He rode 12 Tours de France between 1965 and 1977. He won two stages, one in 1969 and one in 1976. He wore the maillot jaune for two days after his stage win in 1976. His best placings were fourth in 1976 and ninth in 1977. He was national road champion in 1969. He retired in 1977 after 45 professional wins. He owned a hotel in Hébécrevon, Manche until his death on 11 August 2013.
Delisle was born on a farm near Coutances, in Normandy. He had three sisters and it was on a women's bike too large for him that he began riding in the area around the farm.
He studied to become a plumber but became an assistant-surveyor, a job which would let him ride to wherever he was working. He joined the local Periers-Sports club in 1959 and won his first race the following season. There were no races for young riders in Normandy and Delisle raced from the start against older and more experienced riders.
In 1961 he won the national team time-trial championship at Compiègne in a team that included Jean Jourden, who won that year's world road championship. Compulsory national service enrolled him at the barracks at Joinville to which many of France's top sportsmen were sent. He joined the AC Boulogne-Billancourt in the capital's north-western suburbs, a club which had supplied riders to the Peugeot professional team.
Delisle came third in the 1963 Route de France, one of the country's biggest and hardest stage races. His ride brought selection for the national team in the Tour de l'Avenir, a race for amateurs and semi-professionals which rode ahead of the Tour de France on its mountain stages. He finished third behind André Zimmerman and Rolf Maurer.
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