Camille Danguillaume

Camille Danguillaume
Camille Danguillaume in 1943
Personal information
Born(1919-06-04)4 June 1919
Châteaulin, France
Died26 June 1950(1950-06-26) (aged 31)
Arpajon, France
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider

Camille Danguillaume (4 June 1919 – 26 June 1950) was a French cyclist. He won Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1949. He rode in the 1947, 1948 and 1949 Tour de France.[1][2][3] He died of a fracture to the temporal bone four days after colliding with two motorcycles at the 1950 French National Road Championships at Montlhéry.[4] He was the uncle of fellow racing cyclist Jean-Pierre Danguillaume.[5]

  1. ^ "34ème Tour de France 1947" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  2. ^ "35ème Tour de France 1948" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ^ "36ème Tour de France 1949" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Mort Camille Danguillaume", Miroir Sprint No.212, 3 July 1950.
  5. ^ Mainguy, Annaïck (1 June 2017). ""Je suis un enfant gaté"" ["I'm a spoiled child"]. La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). Retrieved 21 May 2021.