Pierre Brambilla
Personal information | |
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Full name | Pierre Brambilla |
Nickname | La Brambille |
Born | (1919-05-12)12 May 1919 Villarbeney, Switzerland |
Died | 13 February 1984(1984-02-13) (aged 64) |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1939 | Terrot |
1942 | Tendil–Hutchinson |
1944 | Mercier–Hutchinson |
1946–1949 | Metropole–Dunlop |
1950 | Mervil |
1951 | Alcyon–Dunlop |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Pierre Brambilla (12 May 1919 at Villarbeney in Switzerland – 13 February 1984 at Grenoble, France) was a French professional road cyclist. He was of Italian origin but adopted French nationality on 9 September 1949. He was known as "la Brambille" and he won the King of the Mountains competition in the 1947 Tour de France where he also finished third overall and wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for two days. In that 1947 Tour, Brambilla was leading the race at the penultimate day, with Aldo Ronconi at 53 seconds and Jean Robic at 2'58". At the last stage, Caen-Paris, Robic and Édouard Fachleitner attacked, and finished more than 13 minutes before Brambilla, taking the first two places. Brambilla was the first cyclist to lose the lead in the Tour de France on the last stage. Brambilla is pictured in the short story "Brambilla" by Julian Barnes, published in his collection of short stories Cross Channel (1996).
Major results
- 1939
- Lyon–Grenoble–Lyon (with Giuseppe Martino)
- 1941
- Montluçon
- 1942
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 10
- Mountains classification circuit de France
- 1943
- Carcassonne
- Circuit du Mont Ventoux
- Course du Mont Chauve
- GP d'Espéraza
- GP Haute Savoie
- Perpignan
- 1945
- Annecy–Grenoble–Annecy
- 1946
- Tour de l'Ouest
- 1947
- Paris–Clermont-Ferrand
- Tour de France:
- Winner Mountains classification
- 3rd place overall classification
- Wearing yellow jersey for two days
- 1949
- Cahors
External links
- Pierre Brambilla at Cycling Archives
- Pierre Brambilla – official Tour de France results (archive)
- Pierre Brambilla dans le Tour de France (in French)
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- 1933: Vicente Trueba
- 1934: René Vietto
- 1935: Félicien Vervaecke
- 1936: Julián Berrendero
- 1937: Félicien Vervaecke
- 1938: Gino Bartali
- 1939: Sylvère Maes
- 1947: Pierre Brambilla
- 1948: Gino Bartali
- 1949: Fausto Coppi
- 1950: Louison Bobet
- 1951: Raphaël Géminiani
- 1952: Fausto Coppi
- 1953: Jesús Loroño
- 1954: Federico Bahamontes
- 1955–1956: Charly Gaul
- 1957: Gastone Nencini
- 1958–1959: Federico Bahamontes
- 1960–1961: Imerio Massignan
- 1962–1964: Federico Bahamontes
- 1965–1967: Julio Jiménez
- 1968: Aurelio González Puente
- 1969–1970: Eddy Merckx
- 1971–1972: Lucien Van Impe
- 1973: Pedro Torres
- 1974: Domingo Perurena
- 1975: Lucien Van Impe
- 1976: Giancarlo Bellini
- 1977: Lucien Van Impe
- 1978: Mariano Martínez
- 1979: Giovanni Battaglin
- 1980: Raymond Martin
- 1981: Lucien Van Impe
- 1982: Bernard Vallet
- 1983: Lucien Van Impe
- 1984: Robert Millar
- 1985: Luis Herrera
- 1986: Bernard Hinault
- 1987: Luis Herrera
- 1988: Steven Rooks
- 1989: Gert-Jan Theunisse
- 1990: Thierry Claveyrolat
- 1991–1992: Claudio Chiappucci
- 1993: Tony Rominger
- 1994–1997: Richard Virenque
- 1998: Christophe Rinero
- 1999: Richard Virenque
- 2000: Santiago Botero
- 2001–2002: Laurent Jalabert
- 2003–2004: Richard Virenque
- 2005–2006: Michael Rasmussen
- 2007: Mauricio Soler
- 2008: Carlos Sastre
- 2009: Egoi Martínez
- 2010: Anthony Charteau
- 2011: Samuel Sánchez
- 2012: Thomas Voeckler
- 2013: Nairo Quintana
- 2014: Rafał Majka
- 2015: Chris Froome
- 2016: Rafał Majka
- 2017: Warren Barguil
- 2018: Julian Alaphilippe
- 2019: Romain Bardet
- 2020–2021: Tadej Pogačar
- 2022: Jonas Vingegaard
- 2023: Giulio Ciccone