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Raymond Delisle (11 March 1943 – 11 August 2013) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He is the only rider to have won a stage of the Tour de France on 14 July, France's national day, while wearing the jersey of national champion.〔L'Équipe, France, 15 July 2003〕 Born in Ancteville, Delisle started racing as an amateur in 1961 and won the Tour du Lac Leman classic in 1963 and the national team time-trial championship in 1964, with Jean Jourden. He turned professional in 1965. He rode 12 Tours de France between 1965 and 1977. He won two stages, one in 1969 and one in 1976. He wore the maillot jaune for two days after his stage win in 1976. His best placings were fourth in 1976 and ninth in 1977. He was national road champion in 1969. He retired in 1977〔 after 45 professional wins. He owned a hotel in Hébécrevon, Manche until his death on 11 August 2013. ==Amateur career== Delisle was born on a farm near Coutances, in Normandy.〔Coutances has a place in the history of the Tour because it was in the station café there that in the 1930s Henri Pélissier spoke to the writer, Albert Londres, of how riders took drugs to get through the race, of how the organiser, Henri Desgrange, imposed what he said were near-impossible conditions. Londres' story appeared under the headline ''Les forçats de la route'', an expression which entered the cycling lexicon.〕〔Coups de Pédales, Belgium, November 2005〕 He had three sisters and it was on a women's bike too large for him that he began riding in the area around the farm. He studied to become a plumber but became an assistant-surveyor, a job which would let him ride to wherever he was working.〔 He joined the local Periers-Sports club in 1959 and won his first race the following season. There were no races for young riders in Normandy and Delisle raced from the start against older and more experienced riders. In 1961 he won the national team time-trial championship at Compiègne in a team that included Jean Jourden, who won that year's world road championship.〔The other riders were Wuillemin and Saint-André.〕 Compulsory national service enrolled him at the barracks at Joinville to which many of France's top sportsmen were sent. He joined the AC Boulogne-Billancourt in the capital's north-western suburbs, a club which had supplied riders to the Peugeot professional team. Delisle came third in the 1963 Route de France, one of the country's biggest and hardest stage races. His ride brought selection for the national team in the Tour de l'Avenir, a race for amateurs and semi-professionals which rode ahead of the Tour de France on its mountain stages. He finished third behind André Zimmerman and Rolf Maurer. In 1965 he joined the Peugeot team, recommended by Désiré Letort, a colleague in the AC Boulogne-Billancourt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raymond Delisle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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