Octave Lapize

Octave Lapize
Personal information
Full nameOctave Lapize
NicknameTatave
Le Frisé (The Curly Haired-One)
Born(1887-10-24)24 October 1887
Paris, France
Died14 July 1917(1917-07-14) (aged 29)
Toul, France
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1910)
6 individual stages (1910, 1912, 1914)

One-day races and Classics

Paris–Roubaix (1909, 1910, 1911)
Paris–Tours (1911)
Paris–Brussels (1911, 1912, 1913)
Medal record
Representing  France
Men's track cycling
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1908 London 100 kilometres

Octave Lapize (pronounced [ɔktav lapiz]; 24 October 1887 – 14 July 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.[1]

Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres,[2] he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.

  1. ^ "Octave Lapize". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Octave Lapize Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2013-05-05.