Odile Defraye

Odile Defraye
Personal information
Full nameOdile Defraye
Born(1888-07-14)14 July 1888
Rumbeke, West Flanders, Belgium
Died21 August 1965(1965-08-21) (aged 77)
Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1912)
Mountains classification (1912)
3 individual stages (1912)

Stage races

Tour of Belgium (1912)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1911)
Milan–San Remo (1913)
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (1910)

Odile Defraye (pronounced [ɔ.dil dɛ.fʁɛj]; Dutch: Odiel Defraeye; 14 July 1888 – 21 August 1965) was a Belgian road racing cyclist who won three stages and the overall title of the 1912 Tour de France, which was the last tour decided by a points system instead of overall best time.[1] He was the first Belgian to win the Tour and was only invited to join Alcyon's all-French team at a late stage for publicity purposes.

In the 1913 Tour de France, Defraye held the overall lead after stages 2 through 5 before relinquishing the lead on the Tourmalet to Stage 6 and eventual winner Philippe Thys. He participated in six tours between 1909 and 1924 but his victory Tour was the only one that he completed.[2]

Other major wins include the 1913 Milan–San Remo, a one-day classic, and four stages and the overall for the 1912 Tour of Belgium.