Georges Speicher

Georges Speicher
Personal information
Full name	Georges Speicher
Nickname	Le roi de Montlhéry (The King of Montlhéry)
Born	8 June 1907; Paris, France
Died	24 January 1978 (aged 70); Maisons-Laffitte, France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France General classification (1933) 9 individual stages (1933-1935) One-day races and Classics Road Race World Championships (1933) National Road Race Championships (1935, 1937, 1939) Paris–Roubaix (1936) Paris–Arras (1931) Tour du Vaucluse (1933) Paris–Angers (1935) Paris–Rennes (1935) Challenge Sedis (1937)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing France
World Championships

Georges Speicher (pronounced [ʒɔʁʒ spɛ.ʃe]; 8 June 1907 – 24 January 1978) was a French cyclist who won the 1933 Tour de France along with three stage wins, and the 1933 World Cycling Championship.

After Speicher had won the 1933 Tour de France, he was initially not selected for the 1933 UCI Road World Championships. Only after a French cyclist that had been selected dropped out, Speicher was brought in as a replacement at the last notice, and won the race.^[1] Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year.^[2]

Career achievements

Major results

1931

Paris-Arras

1932

10th Tour de France:

1933

World road race championship

Tour de France:

Winner overall classification

Winner stages 8, 9 and 12

1934

Tour de France:

Winner stages 1, 5, 6, 13 and 20

1935

France national road race championship

Paris-Rennes

Paris-Angers

Tour de France:

6th place overall classification

Winner stage 13B

1936: Alger; Paris–Roubaix (victory contested by Romain Maes)
1937: France national road race championship
1939: France national road race championship

Grand Tour results timeline

	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938
Giro d'Italia	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE
Stages won	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Mountains classification	N/A	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	10	1	11	6	DNF-7	DNF-7	DSQ
Stages won	0	3	5	1	0	0	0
Mountains classification	N/A	11	NR	24	NR	NR	NR
Vuelta a España	N/A	N/A	N/A	DNE	DNE	N/A	N/A
Stages won				—	—
Mountains classification				—	—

Legend
1	Winner
2–3	Top three-finish
4–10	Top ten-finish
11–	Other finish
DNE	Did not enter
DNF-x	Did not finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-x	Did not start (not started on stage x)
HD	Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x)
DSQ	Disqualified
N/A	Race/classification not held
NR	Not ranked in this classification

References

^ Tom James (15 August 2003). "1933: Speicher continues the French dominance". Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
^ Tom James (2004). "French continue domination!". Cycling revealed. Retrieved 17 October 2009.