Jeff Pierce (cyclist)
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Jeff Pierce |
Born | United States | August 28, 1958
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1986 | Schwinn |
1987–1990 | 7-Eleven |
1991–1996 | Chevrolet-LA Sheriff |
Major wins | |
1 stage Tour de France (1987) |
Jeff Pierce (born August 28, 1958) is a retired American professional road bicycle racer. At the 1987 Tour de France, Pierce gained fame by becoming the third American (after Davis Phinney and Greg LeMond) to win a stage in the Tour de France, winning the final stage on the Champs-Élysées from the breakaway[1] while riding for Team 7-Eleven.
In 1991, Jeff Pierce appeared in a video with Olympic cyclist John Howard, entitled John Howard's Lessons in Cycling.
After his retirement from competitive cycling, Pierce served as USA Cycling's Vice President of Athletics.
Major results[]
- 1980
- 1st Overall Tour of Kansas City[2]
- 1985
- 1st Overall Tour de Berlin
- 1st Nevada City Classic
- 1st Stage 10 Coors Classic
- 1986
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Bisbee
- 1st Stages 2, 3, & 5
- 3rd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 6th Overall Coors Classic
- 1987
- 1st Stage 25 Tour de France
- 1st Overall Tour of Texas
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Athens Twilight Criterium
- 2nd Overall Coors Classic
- 1988
- 1st Stages 1 & 6 Coors Classic
- 1989
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1994
- 2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 2
References[]
External links[]
- Jeff Pierce at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Jeff Pierce
Categories:
- 1958 births
- American male cyclists
- American Tour de France stage winners
- Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners
- Living people
- American cycling biography stubs