Jose Samyn

Jose Samyn is a runner cyclist French years 1960. Born the May 11th 1946 with Quiévrechain, it dies on August 28th, 1969 of the consequences of its wounds during a race with Zingem, in Belgium.

Born on May 11th, 1946 with Quiévrechain (Northern), frontier of the Belgium, Jose Samyn ran very young person with the Belgian truck drivers, which enabled him to improve its qualities of sprinter.

Passed professional in May 1967 in the northerner team " Pelforth - Savage-Lejeune" , it made very good starts, in particular in the " Four days of Dunkirk " , which led it to be selected in the team of the " Bleuets" Tour de France. Benjamin of the Turn 1967, it finished in an excellent 17th place, after having gained the 11th stage Briançon - Digne by regulating with the sprint three escaped runners like him. He made also a very good end of season while finishing in the 4th place of Paris-Turns, the " traditional of the sprinters".

1968 see it gaining a stage in Paris-Nice, then to finish in the 2nd place of the Walloon Flèche, beaten with the sprint by the great champion Rik Van Looy who thus gained his last great victory. These performances brought Marcel Bidot, national sport selector, to retain Jose Samyn in the team of France of the Turn 1968, in the capacity of team-member and sprinter. Shown doping following a positive control with the corydrane, Samyn was put except race as of the 8th stage and suspended one month. Very affected by this decision, he spoke one moment to give up cycling, then ravisa.

Incorporated in the team Biro, at the sides of Jacques Anquetil and Jan Jansen in 1969, Samyn gains the stage race of the Tour of Oise, in front of the Belgian sprinter Willy Planckaert, thus marking its rehabilitation. Selected in the Tour de France, Jose Samyn arrives out of the times at the conclusion of the 6th stage finishing at the Ballon of Alsace and is eliminated.

Victim of a very serious fall one month later at the time of a critérium in Belgium, Samyn falls into the coma, then dies on August 28th, 1969. It did not have which 23 years.

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Prize list on Memory of the cylism

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