Désiré Letort

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Désiré Letort
Personal information
Désiré Letort (1971), 'Sprint 71', Panini figurine n ° 84.
Full name	Désiré Letort
Born	(1943-01-29)29 January 1943 Corseul, France
Died	9 September 2012(2012-09-09) (aged 69)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1970	BIC
1973	Gitane-Frigécrème

Désiré Letort (29 January 1943 - 9 September 2012) was a French cyclist.^[1] His sporting career began with ACBB Paris. ^[2] His career best finishes in the Tour de France were 17th in 1971, 9th in 1969 and 4th in 1967.

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.^[3]

Major results[]

1963: French military champion; [fr]
1966: Paris–Camembert; Sévignac
1967: ~~France national road race championship~~ failed doping test; Sévignac
1968
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.
^ Miroir du Cyclisme (1963). Livre d`Or 1963. Paris. p. 82.
^ "1969 Tour de France jerseys".

External links[]

"Palmarès" (in French). Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2009-02-19.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Désiré Letort at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results

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Tour de France combativity award winners

show v t 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 Grevès (1936) Georges Speicher (1937) Paul Maye (1938) Georges Speicher (1939)
1940–1959	René Vietto (1941) Émile Idée (1942) Paul Maye (1943) Urbain Caffi (1944) Eloi Tassin (1945) Louis Caput (1946) Émile 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) Arnaud Démare (2017) Anthony Roux (2018) Warren Barguil (2019)
2020–2039	Arnaud Démare (2020) Rémi Cavagna (2021)

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