Roger Pingeon

Roger Pingeon (; 28 August 1940 – 19 March 2017) was a professional road bicycle racer from France.

Biography

Growing up near the Jura Mountains, he was a cross-country skier as a teenager before taking up bicycle racing. He spent two years in Algeria on military service before starting his professional cycling career relatively late. He raced as a professional from 1964 to 1974. In 1967, Pingeon won the Tour de France. In 1969, Pingeon won the Vuelta a España and finished second behind Eddy Merckx in the Tour de France. He took a total of four Tour de France stage wins and finished in the top five of the race's general classification three times during his career. After retiring from competition he worked as a consultant for Radio Télévision Suisse between 1979 and 1998. Pingeon died on 19 March 2017 at his home in the village of Beaupont in the Ain department, about 100 km away from his hometown of Hauteville-Lompnes, after suffering a heart attack.

Major results

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1965

2nd Coppa Agostoni

2nd

5th Grand Prix des Nations

5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

7th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre

9th Overall Circuit du Provençal

1966

2nd Overall Critérium National de la Route

:1st Stage 2

2nd Mont Faron Hill Climb

4th Grand Prix des Nations

7th Gran Premio di Lugano

8th Overall Tour de France

1967

1st Overall Tour de France

:1st Stage 5a

2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre

2nd Circuit de l'Aulne

3rd Genoa–Nice

4th

4th Grand Prix de Monaco

5th À travers Lausanne

5th Gran Premio di Lugano

5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Raymond Poulidor)

6th Paris–Tours

7th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc

7th Paris–Tours

8th Overall Paris–Luxembourg

:1st Stage 2

1968

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Critérium National de la Route

3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb

3rd Baden-Baden (with Charly Grosskost)

5th Overall Tour de France

:1st Stage 15 & 18

: Combativity award Overall

7th Overall Giro di Sardegna

7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

9th

1969

1st Overall Vuelta a España

:1st Stage 12 & 14b (ITT)

1st Flèche Enghiennoise

2nd Overall Tour de France

:1st Stage 9

3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

:1st Mountains classification

4th Overall À travers Lausanne

9th Overall Paris–Nice

10th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc

1970

2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Raphaël

3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb

4th Overall Critérium National de la Route

4th Tour du Haut Var

4th Grand Prix de Monaco

9th Polymultipliée

10th

1971

3rd Coppa Agostoni

3rd Trophée Baracchi (with Bernard Thévenet)

5th Grand Prix des Nations

10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

1972

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

:1st Prologue (TTT) & Stage 1

2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

5th Overall Tour de Romandie

:1st Prologue (TTT)

7th Overall Paris–Nice

9th Étoile de Bessèges

1974

1st Grand Prix de Plumelec

5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

6th Critérium National de la Route

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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