Armand de Las Cuevas

Armand de Las Cuevas
Las Cuevas at the 1993 Paris–Nice
Personal information
Full nameArmand de Las Cuevas
Born(1968-06-26)26 June 1968
Troyes, France
Died2 August 2018(2018-08-02) (aged 50)
Réunion, France
Team information
DisciplineRoad
Track
RoleRider
Rider typeTime trialist
Professional teams
1989–1993Reynolds
1994–1995Castorama
1996Petit Casino
1997–1998Banesto
1999Amica Chips–Costa de Almeria
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1994)

Stage races

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1998)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1991)
Clásica de San Sebastián (1994)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  France
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Maebashi Individual pursuit

Armand de Las Cuevas (26 June 1968 – 2 August 2018) was a French racing cyclist.

He won prestigious races such as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Clásica de San Sebastián and the (at the time) unofficial time trial world championship, Grand Prix des Nations. A time trial specialist, he won many prologues and individual time trials in the early 1990s. In both the 1992 and 1994 Tour de France he finished in the top 5 of the prologue as well as the other ITT's. He won a stage in the 1994 Giro d'Italia, an ITT, and placed in the top 5 of both other time trials. He also rode strongly enough to come in 9th on general classification.[1] In the 1994 Tour de Romandie he won the prologue and finished 2nd overall.

He also competed in track pursuit racing, and was bronze medalist in the discipline at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Japan.

De Las Cuevas retired to Réunion in 1999, where he founded a cycling school. He committed suicide there in 2018.[2]

  1. ^ "Armand de Las Cuevas". Procyclingstats.com. 15 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-15.
  2. ^ "Armand De Las Cuevas est décédé". lequipe.fr. Retrieved 3 August 2018.