Pierre Beuffeuil

Personal information
Full name	Pierre Beuffeuil
Date of birth	October 30, 1934 (1934-10-30) (age 75)
Country	France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)1
1956-1964 1965 1966 1967 1968-1969	Mercier-BP Ford-Gitane Kamomé-Dilecta Tigra-Grammont Independent[1]Gitane-Dunlop
Major wins
2 stages Tour de France
Infobox last updated on:
July 9, 2008 1 Team names given are those prevailing at time of rider beginning association with that team.

Pierre Beuffeuil (L'Eguillé, France, 30 October 1934^[2]) is a former French professional road bicycle racer. He won a stage of the Tour de France after the rest of the field had stopped to greet Charles de Gaulle, the president.^[3]

Contents 1 Tour de France 2 Palmarès 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Tour de France

Pierre Beuffeuil was riding the Tour de France in 1960 for the regional Centre-Midi team^[4] when news came that Charles de Gaulle, the president, would be by the route at Colombey-les-deux-Églises, where he lived. The organisers, Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan asked the national champion, Henry Anglade, if the riders would be willing to stop. Anglade agreed and the news was spread through the race.

Beuffeuil, however, had stopped to repair a tyre^[5] and knew nothing of the plan. He was three minutes behind the race. He reached Colombey convinced he would still be behind the race when it finished in Troyes, then found the race halted in front of him. He pressed on alone, now leading rather than following, and won the stage alone on the boulevard Jules-Guesde by 49 seconds.^[6][7]

"I voted for de Gaulle," he said.^[8]

Beuffeuil won the stage from Montluçon to Orléans in 1966^[9] after a break of 204km^[10]. He came third in the Four Days of Dunkirk in 1961 and again in 1966.^[11]

[edit] Palmarès

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Pierre Beuffeuil profile at the Cycling Website
• Official Tour de France results for Pierre Beuffeuil

Persondata
NAME	Beuffeuil, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1934-10-30
PLACE OF BIRTH	L'Eguillé
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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