Apo Lazaridès
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| Full name | Jean-Apôtre Lazaridès | ||||||||||||
| Born | 16 October 1925 Marles-les-Mines, France |
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| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Cannes, France |
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Climber | ||||||||||||
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| Silver medal 1948 World Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Infobox last updated on July 1, 2008 |
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Apo Lazaridès (16 October 1925 – 30 October 1998), was a French champion cyclist.
Born Jean-Apôtre Lazaridès in Marles-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais of Greek ancestries (became French in 1929), he cycled in the mountains as a boy. During the German occupation, Lazaridès used his cycling to transport supplies to the French Resistance.
Nicknamed "Apo", a short version of his middle name, he competed in races throughout France during the war. In 1946 Lazaridès finished fifth in the "Ronde de France", then won the most important competition of the year, the "La Course du Tour de France", a 1316 km race from Monaco to Paris. This was organised by the group who took charge of organisation of the Tour de France.
In the 1947 Tour, Lazaridès finished tenth[1] but captured second overall in the mountain class. In 1948, he finished ninth and went on to take second place in the world championship. He retired in 1955 and moved to Cannes, where he was president of the Étoile Sportive de Cannes."
Lazaridès died in Cannes in 1998 and was buried there in the Cimetière du Grand Jas.
Palmarès
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- 1943
- Boucles de Sospel
- 1946
- Marseille-Nice
- La Course du Tour de France
- 1947
- Tour de France:
- 10th place overall classification
- 1948
- Silver medal World Championships
- 1949
- Polymultipliée
- Tour de France:
- 9th place overall classification
References
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External links
- Apo Lazaridès at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Official Tour de France results for Apo Lazarides
