Louis Darragon
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Born | 6 February 1883 Vichy, France | |||||||||||||||||||
Died | 28 April 1918 (aged 35) Paris, France | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||
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Louis Darragon (6 February 1883 – 28 April 1918) was a French professional cyclist who won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1906 and 1907 and finished in second place in 1909 and 1911.[1][2] He died in 1918 during a race at the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris. The city stadium in his native Vichy is named after him.[3][4]
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- ^ Louis Darragon Archived 2011-09-15 at the Wayback Machine. memoire-du-cyclisme.net
- ^ Track Cycling World Championships 2012 to 1893. bikecult.com
- ^ Sport-Album der Rad-Welt, 4. Jg., 1905
- ^ Fredy Budzinski: Louis Darragon, Biographien berühmter Rennfahrer, Band 14, Berlin 1920
Categories:
- 1883 births
- 1918 deaths
- French male cyclists
- People from Vichy
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- French track cyclists
- Sportspeople from Allier
- Cyclists killed while racing
- Sport deaths in France