Andre Leducq

André Leducq (February 27th 1904 with Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) - June 18th 1980 with Marseilles) is a cyclist French.

Biography

Called " Merry Dédé " , or " Dédé mouth of love and muscles of steel " it was and by far, the French runner most popular of the inter-war period.

It was illustrated particularly in the Tour de France 1930 which it gained after a dramatic fall with height of the collar of the Telegraph. Loan to be given up whereas it carried the yellow jersey, it was helped by the team of France (the first of the History of the Turn), gained the stage and consolidated its first place with general classification after a continuation of anthology behind the Guerra Italian and the Demuysère Belgian.

It was still victorious in 1932 after having gained 6 stages.

Large sprinter, good wheeler, excel chute, it compensated for by these qualities his average performances in the rise of the collars.

In 1938 selected at 34 years in the team of the " juniors " (a roof) financed by " Pernod " , it took with the general surprise the yellow jersey during two stages and gained ex equo with Antonin Magne the last stage in a Park of the Princes in madness.

After having touched journalism, André Leducq died in 76 years of the continuations of an accident of deep-sea diving. its notoriety will perdura well after the war.

Prize list

Sédis Challenge: 1931

Olympic champion of the against-the-watch by teams: 1924
World champion amateur on road: 1924
Champion of France amateur: 1924, 1925
military Champion of France: 1925
Champion of France junior: 1922

Tour de France: 1930 and 1932
25 victories of stages over the Tour de France (including 4 by teams) (3rd better performance of the history to the number of victories). 35 days with the yellow jersey.
Paris-Roubaix: 1928
Paris-Turns: 1931
National Critérium: 1933
Critérium of the Aces: 1934
Paris it Harbor: 1928
Paris-Caen: 1930
Paris-Troyes: 1923
Paris-Mantes-Paris: 1922]]
Trophy of the Small Newspaper: 1922

2nd of the Championship of France on road: 1928 (3rd: 1929,1931)
2nd on Turn of the Pays Basque 1927 and 1928
2nd on Paris-Roubaix 1935

Results on the Tour de France

Tour de France 1927: 4th of the general classification and victorious of three stages
Tour de France 1928: 2nd of general classification and winner four stages
Tour de France 1929: 11th of the general classification and victorious of five stages
Tour de France 1930: Winner of general classification and two stages
Tour de France 1931: 10th of the general classification and victorious of a stage
Tour de France 1932: Winner of general classification and six stages
Tour de France 1933: 31e of the general classification and victorious of two stage
Tour de France 1935: 17th of the general classification and victorious of a stage
Tour de France 1938: 30e of the general classification and victorious of a stage

Anecdote

He is the sixth cyclist of the history of the Tour de France has to know a victory of stage at least 10 years after the first success

It is at the time of the 21e stage of the turn 1938 qu ' it enters the circle of the winners of the turn at the time 2 decades different. It divides this circle with Jean Alavoine, Henri Pelissier, Philippe Thys, Louis Mottiat and Antonin Magne which knew its its first and 9th and 10th victories of stages the same years as " Merry Dédé ". It is the last of the 19 cyclists having gained over these long periods entirely before the Second world war.

Rene Vietto, Gino Bartali, Andre Darrigade, Jean Stablinski, Raymond Poulidor, Felice Gimondi, Gerben Karstens, Ferdinand Bracke, Joaquim Agostinho, Lucien Van Impe, Lance Armstrong, Richard Virenque and Cédric Vasseur imitated the exploits of these convicts of the road.

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