Gustave Garrigou
Personal information | |
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Full name | Cyprien Gustave Garrigou |
Born | Vabres, France | 24 September 1884
Died | 28 January 1963 Paris, France | (aged 78)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | All-rounder |
Professional teams | |
1907–1908 | Peugeot |
1909–1912 | Alcyon |
1913–1914 | Peugeot |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Cyprien Gustave Garrigou (pronounced [ɡystav ɡaʁiɡu]; 24 September 1884 – 23 January 1963) was one of the best professional racing cyclists of his era. He rode the Tour de France eight times and won once. Of 117 stages, he won eight, came in the top ten 96 times and finished 65 times in the first five.
Career
Garrigou was born in
He won the Tour in 1911 surviving not only the race but death threats because fans of another French rider, Paul Duboc, believed Garrigou to be behind an incident in which Duboc collapsed in the Pyrenees and lay in agony for an hour after drinking from a poisoned bottle.
Garrigou had built a lead of 16 points after the end of Stage 6 but by the time they reached the Pyrenees, Duboc had reduced it to 10 points. With Duboc finishing 3 hours behind, Garrigou finished second to consolidate a lead which increased when stage winner Maurice Brocco was disqualified for unsportsmanlike behaviour.
Feelings came to their height in Rouen, where Duboc lived and in which notices had been posted in his name pointing out that he would have been leading the Tour had he not been poisoned and inciting the crowd to take revenge. Duboc had nothing to do with the notices and was as alarmed as the race organizer, Henri Desgrange. Three cars provided a barrier between Garrigou and the crowd until the race had cleared the city. The culprit was eventually found to be a helper with a rival team but Duboc's supporters had suspected Garrigou, as the man most likely to profit from stopping Duboc.
Garrigou won the Tour with a generous number of points over Duboc. In some early years, the Tour was decided not on elapsed time but on points based on the position in which riders finished stages.
As leader of an all-French team,
The Tour of 1913 saw the ending of the points system deciding the winner of the general classification. Garrigou finished in second place 8 minutes and 37 seconds behind another Belgian, Philippe Thys.
Garrigou was an all-rounder, also winning Paris–Brussels (1907), Milan–San Remo (1911) and the Giro di Lombardia. He was national champion in 1907 and 1908. His career ended with the outbreak of war in 1914.
Retirement
Garrigou retired to Esbly, Paris, and went into business.
Career achievements
Major results
- 1907
- Tour de France - 2nd Overall, Stage 10 and 12 wins
- Giro di Lombardia - 1st Overall
- Paris–Brussels- 1st Place
- 1908
- Tour de France - 4th Overall
- 1909
- Tour de France - 2nd Overall, 1 Stage win
- 1910
- Tour de France - 3rd Overall, 1 stage win
- 1911
- Tour de France - 1st Overall, 2 stage wins
- Milan–San Remo, 1st Place
- 1912
- Tour de France - 3rd Overall
- Paris–Roubaix - 2nd Place
- 1913
- Tour de France - 2nd Overall, 1 stage win
- 1914
- Tour de France - Stage 11 win
Grand Tour results timeline
1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | |
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Giro d'Italia | N/A | N/A | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Tour de France | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Stages won | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Vuelta a España | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Stages won |
1 | Winner |
2–3 | Top three-finish |
4–10 | Top ten-finish |
11– | Other finish |
DNE | Did not enter |
DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
DSQ | Disqualified |
N/A | Race/classification not held |
NR | Not ranked in this classification |
References
- Gustave Garrigou at Cycling Archives