Armand de Las Cuevas

Armand de Las Cuevas
Personal information
Las Cuevas at the 1993 Paris–Nice
Full name	Armand de Las Cuevas
Born	(1968-06-26) June 26, 1968 Troyes, France
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road Track
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1989–1993	Reynolds
1994–1995	Castorama (cycling team)
1996	Petit Casino
1997–1998	Banesto
1999	Amica Chips-Costa de Almería
Major wins
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1998) Clásica de San Sebastián (1994) French Road Race Championship (1991) Giro d'Italia, 1 stage (1994)

Armand de Las Cuevas (born June 26, 1968 in Troyes, France) is a retired French racing cyclist.

He won prestigious races like the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Clásica de San Sebastián. A time trial specialist, he was considered one of the best time-trialists of the early 1990s, winning many prologues and individual time trials. He planned to break the current Hour record held by Eddy Merckx but never succeeded in this.

Palmarès

1990

1 stage of Vuelta a Asturias

1991

French Road Race Championship

GP Ouest-France

1 stage of Bicicleta Vasca

1992

1st Prologue Tour de Romandie

1993

1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice

Grand Prix des Nations

Étoile de Bessèges

1st Overall and Stage 2

1994

9th Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Prologue

Clásica de San Sebastián

Paris–Camembert

Vuelta a Burgos

1st Overall and 2 stages

1st Prologue Tour de Romandie

1995

Trophée des Grimpeurs

1998

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

Route du Sud

1st Overall and Stage 2

External links

Armand de Las Cuevas profile at Cycling Archives

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)

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