Octave Lapize

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Octave Lapize

Lapize in the 1910 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Octave Lapize
Date of birth	October 24, 1887(1887-10-24)
Date of death	July 14, 1917 (aged 29)
Country	France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
Winner 1910 Tour de France
Infobox last updated on:
May 22, 2008

Medal record
Competitor for  France
Men's track cycling
Olympic Games
Bronze	1908 London	100 kilometres

Octave Lapize (October 24, 1887 – July 14, 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist who is most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the Men's 100 kilometres. In addition, he is a 3-time winner of the one-day classic, Paris-Roubaix.

He was born in Montrouge and died in Toul.

A fighter pilot in the French army of the First World War, Octave Lapize was shot down near Flirey, Meurthe-et-Moselle on June 28, 1917. Severely injured, he died in a hospital in Toul.

He is noted for looking at some Tour officials on the climb of the Col du Tourmalet in the 1910 Tour de France and yelling, "Vous êtes des assassins! Oui, des assassins!' (French for 'You are murderers! Yes, murderers!')"^[1]

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Sporting positions
Preceded by François Faber	Winner of the Tour de France 1910	Succeeded by Gustave Garrigou

v • d • e Tour de France Yellow jersey winners 1903 Maurice Garin · 1904 Henri Cornet · 1905 Louis Trousselier · 1906 René Pottier · 1907-1908 Lucien Petit-Breton · 1909 François Faber · 1910 Octave Lapize · 1911 Gustave Garrigou · 1912 Odile Defraye · 1913-1914 Philippe Thys · 1915-1918 World War I · 1919 Firmin Lambot · 1920 Philippe Thys · 1921 Léon Scieur · 1922 Firmin Lambot · 1923 Henri Pélissier · 1924-1925 Ottavio Bottecchia · 1926 Lucien Buysse · 1927-1928 Nicolas Frantz · 1929 Maurice De Waele · 1930 André Leducq · 1931 Antonin Magne · 1932 André Leducq · 1933 Georges Speicher · 1934 Antonin Magne · 1935 Romain Maes · 1936 Sylvère Maes · 1937 Roger Lapébie · 1938 Gino Bartali · 1939 Sylvère Maes · 1940-1946 World War II · 1947 Jean Robic · 1948 Gino Bartali · 1949 Fausto Coppi · 1950 Ferdinand Kübler · 1951 Hugo Koblet · 1952 Fausto Coppi · 1953-1955 Louison Bobet · 1956 Roger Walkowiak · 1957 Jacques Anquetil · 1958 Charly Gaul · 1959 Federico Bahamontes · 1960 Gastone Nencini · 1961-1964 Jacques Anquetil · 1965 Felice Gimondi · 1966 Lucien Aimar · 1967 Roger Pingeon · 1968 Jan Janssen · 1969-1972 Eddy Merckx · 1973 Luis Ocaña · 1974 Eddy Merckx · 1975 Bernard Thévenet · 1976 Lucien Van Impe · 1977 Bernard Thévenet · 1978-1979 Bernard Hinault · 1980 Joop Zoetemelk · 1981-1982 Bernard Hinault · 1983-1984 Laurent Fignon · 1985 Bernard Hinault · 1986 Greg LeMond · 1987 Stephen Roche · 1988 Pedro Delgado · 1989-1990 Greg LeMond · 1991-1995 Miguel Indurain · 1996 Bjarne Riis · 1997 Jan Ullrich · 1998 Marco Pantani · 1999-2005 Lance Armstrong · 2006 Óscar Pereiro · 2007 Alberto Contador