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

Palmarès

1963: French military champion; Circuit des 2 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: Tour du Haut Var; 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

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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