Désiré Letort

Désiré Letort
Personal information
Full name	Désiré Letort
Born	(1943-01-29)January 29, 1943 Corseul, France
Died	September 9, 2012(2012-09-09) (aged 69)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1970	BIC
1973	Gitane-Frigécrème
Infobox last updated on February 19, 2009

Désiré Letort (29 January 1943 - 9 September 2012) was a French cyclist.^[1]

Biography

Letort was born in Corseul. He won the French national road race championship in 1967, but after the race failed the doping tests.

Letort raced in eight Tours de France. He wore the yellow jersey in the 1969 Tour de France for one day after stage 5.^[2]

Major results

1963: French military champion; Circuit des deux provinces
1966: Paris–Camembert; Sévignac
1967: ~~France national road race championship~~ failed doping test; Sévignac
1968: Critérium de Saint-Georges-de-Chesné
1969: Ploerdut; Laval; Plancoet
1970: Issé; Hénon
1971: Nice-Seillans

Grand tour results

Tour de France

1965 : DNF (=Did Not Finish)
1966 : 57
1967 : 4 (winner combativity award)
1968 : DNF
1969 : 9
1970 : DNF
1971 : 17
1972 : DNF

Vuelta a España

1967 : 27
1971 : 26
1972 : DNF

Giro d'Italia

1972 : DNF

References

↑ "Cyclisme. Disparition de Désiré Letort - Plancoët - Cyclisme" (in French). ouest-france.fr. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
↑ "1969 Tour de France jerseys".

External links

Palmarès (French)
Désiré Letort profile at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results

Tour de France combativity award winners

Combativity award classification	1956: André Darrigade 1957: Nicolas Barone 1958: Federico Bahamontes 1959: Gérard Saint 1960: Jean Graczyk 1961 Team West-Southwest 1962: Eddy Pauwels 1963: Rik Van Looy 1964: Henry Anglade 1965: Felice Gimondi 1966: Rudi Altig 1967: Désiré Letort 1968: Roger Pingeon 1969–1970: Eddy Merckx 1971: Luis Ocaña 1972: Cyrille Guimard 1973: Luis Ocaña 1974–1975: Eddy Merckx 1976: Raymond Delisle 1977: Gerrie Knetemann 1978: Paul Wellens 1979: Hennie Kuiper 1980: Christian Levavasseur 1981: Bernard Hinault 1982: Régis Clère 1983: Serge Demierre 1984: Bernard Hinault 1985: Maarten Ducrot 1986: Bernard Hinault 1987: Régis Clère 1988: Jérôme Simon 1989: Laurent Fignon 1990: Eduardo Chozas 1991–1992: Claudio Chiappucci 1993: Massimo Ghirotto 1994: Eros Poli 1995: Hernán Buenahora 1996–1997: Richard Virenque 1998–1999: Jacky Durand 2000: Erik Dekker 2001–2002: Laurent Jalabert

Super-combativity award	2003: Alexander Vinokourov 2004: Richard Virenque 2005: Óscar Pereiro 2006: David de la Fuente 2007: Amets Txurruka 2008: Sylvain Chavanel 2009 None 2010: Sylvain Chavanel 2011: Jérémy Roy 2012: Chris Anker Sørensen 2013: Christophe Riblon 2014: Alessandro De Marchi 2015: Romain Bardet 2016: Peter Sagan

French National Road Race Champions (men)

1900–1919	Gustave Garrigou (1907–1908) Jean Alavoine (1909) Émile Georget (1910) Octave Lapize (1911–1913) Charles Crupelandt (1914) Henri Pélissier (1919)

1920–1939	Jean Alavoine (1920) Francis Pélissier (1921) Jean Brunier (1922) Francis Pélissier (1923–1924) Achille Souchard (1925–1926) Ferdinand Le Drogo (1927–1928) Marcel Bidot (1929) Roger Bisseron (1930) Armand Blanchonnet (1931) André Godinat (1932) Roger Lapébie (1933) Raymond Louviot (1934) Georges Speicher (1935) René Le Grèves (1936) Georges Speicher (1937) Paul Maye (1938) Georges Speicher (1939)

1940–1959	René Vietto (1941) Emile Idée (1942) Paul Maye (1943) Urbain Caffi (1944) Eloi Tassin (1945) Louis Caput (1946) Emile Idée (1947) César Marcelak (1948) Jean Rey (1949) Louison Bobet (1950–1951) Adolphe Deledda (1952) Raphaël Géminiani (1953) Jacques Dupont (1954) André Darrigade (1955) Bernard Gauthier (1956) Valentin Huot (1957–1958) Henry Anglade (1959)

1960–1979	Jean Stablinski (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Jean Stablinski (1962–1964) Henry Anglade (1965) Jean-Claude Theillière (1966) Désiré Letort (1967) Lucien Aimar (1968) Raymond Delisle (1969) Paul Gutty (1970) Yves Hézard (1971) Roland Berland (1972) Bernard Thévenet (1973) Georges Talbourdet (1974) Régis Ovion (1975) Guy Sibille (1976) Marcel Tinazzi (1977) Bernard Hinault (1978) Roland Berland (1979)

1980–1999	Pierre-Raymond Villemiane (1980) Serge Beucherie (1981) Régis Clère (1982) Marc Gomez (1983) Laurent Fignon (1984) Jean-Claude Leclercq (1985) Yvon Madiot (1986) Marc Madiot (1987) Éric Caritoux (1988–1989) Philippe Louviot (1990) Armand de Las Cuevas (1991) Luc Leblanc (1992) Jacky Durand (1993–1994) Eddy Seigneur (1995) Stéphane Heulot (1996) Stéphane Barthe (1997) Laurent Jalabert (1998) François Simon (1999)

2000–2019	Christophe Capelle (2000) Didier Rous (2001) Nicolas Vogondy (2002) Didier Rous (2003) Thomas Voeckler (2004) Pierrick Fédrigo (2005) Florent Brard (2006) Christophe Moreau (2007) Nicolas Vogondy (2008) Dimitri Champion (2009) Thomas Voeckler (2010) Sylvain Chavanel (2011) Nacer Bouhanni (2012) Arthur Vichot (2013) Arnaud Démare (2014) Steven Tronet (2015) Arthur Vichot (2016)

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