Édouard Fachleitner

Edouard Fachleitner
Personal information
Full name Edouard Fachleitner
Nickname Le Berger de Manosque (The Shepherd of Manosque)[1]
Born (1921-02-24)24 February 1921
France
Died 18 July 2008(2008-07-18) (aged 87)
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Major wins
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1948)
Tour de Romandie (1950)
Tour de France, 1 stage
Infobox last updated on
27 April 2008

Edouard Fachleitner (born 24 February 1921 in Santa Domenica d'Albona, Italy, died 18 July 2008) was a French former professional road bicycle racer. He was an Italian citizen until 23 June 1939. He was a professional between 1943 and 1952. Fachleitners's best results were overall victories in the 1948 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and 1950 Tour de Romandie and second place overall in the 1947 Tour de France.[2] He also won the one-day races GP d'Armagnac (1945), Ajaccio-Bastia (1946), Ronde d'Aix-en-Provence (1946) and GP de Cannes (1950).

Palmarès

1945
1st, GP d'Armagnac
1946
1st, Ajaccio-Bastia
1st, Ronde d'Aix-en-Provence
1947
2nd, Overall, Tour de France
1st, Stage 11
1948
1st, Overall, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
2nd Stage 4a
1950
1st, GP de Cannes
1st, Overall, Tour de Romandie
3rd, Stage 1b
3rd, Stage 4

References

  1. Vergne, Laurent (22 July 2015). "Cannibale, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy torticolis… le Top 20 des surnoms mythiques du cyclisme" [Cannibal, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy Torticollis... the Top 20 mythical nicknames of cycling]. Eurosport (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  2. "34ème Tour de France 1947" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

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