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Octave Lapize

1887 - 1917

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Octave Lapize (pronounced [ɔktav lapiz]; 24 October 1887 – 14 July 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist. Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Octave Lapize is the 32nd most popular cyclist (down from 27th in 2019), the 2,337th most popular biography from France (down from 2,135th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Octave Lapize ranks 32 out of 1,613. Before him are Nicolas Frantz, Rudolph Lewis, Lucien Van Impe, René Pottier, Patrick Sercu, and Marco Pantani. After him are Firmin Lambot, Francesco Moser, Jan Janssen, Ferdinand Kübler, Laurent Fignon, and Odile Defraye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Octave Lapize ranks 94. Before him are Josef Lada, Avery Brundage, Roscoe Arbuckle, Wilhelm Kube, René Spitz, and Rudolph Lewis. After him are Louis Jouvet, Miklós Kállay, Hanns Kerrl, Antanas Merkys, Mario Roatta, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay. Among people deceased in 1917, Octave Lapize ranks 44. Before him are Sarah Aaronsohn, Matthias Zurbriggen, Kristian Birkeland, Léon Flameng, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, and Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz. After him are Eugène Grasset, Ivan Goremykin, Eduardo di Capua, Bérenger Saunière, Liu Yongfu, and Georges Guynemer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Octave Lapize ranks 2,337 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Deray (1929), Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Eugène Fromentin (1820), Jan Asselijn (1610), and Marc Augé (1935). After him are Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Rudi Garcia (1964), Louis Delluc (1890), Louis Jouvet (1887), Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut (1294), and Isaac the Blind (1160).

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Among CYCLISTS In France

Among cyclists born in France, Octave Lapize ranks 9. Before him are Bernard Hinault (1954), Lucien Petit-Breton (1882), Henri Cornet (1884), François Faber (1887), Louis Trousselier (1881), and René Pottier (1879). After him are Laurent Fignon (1960), Louison Bobet (1925), Henri Pélissier (1889), André Leducq (1904), Roger Pingeon (1940), and Roger Walkowiak (1927).

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