Armand de Las Cuevas (26 June 1968 – 2 August 2018) was a French racing cyclist.
 Las Cuevas at the 1993 Paris–Nice | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Armand de Las Cuevas | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 June 1968 Troyes, France | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 August 2018 (aged 50) Réunion, France | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road Track | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1989–1993 | Reynolds | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Castorama | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Petit Casino | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Banesto | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Amica Chips–Costa de Almeria | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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He won prestigious races such as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Clásica de San Sebastián and the (at the time) unofficial time trial world championship, Grand Prix des Nations. A time trial specialist, he won many prologues and individual time trials in the early 1990s. In both the 1992 and 1994 Tour de France he finished in the top 5 of the prologue as well as the other ITT's. He won a stage in the 1994 Giro d'Italia, an ITT, and placed in the top 5 of both other time trials. He also rode strongly enough to come in 9th on general classification.[1] In the 1994 Tour de Romandie he won the prologue and finished 2nd overall.
He also competed in track pursuit racing, and was bronze medalist in the discipline at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Japan.
De Las Cuevas retired to Réunion in 1999, where he founded a cycling school. He committed suicide there in 2018.[2]
Major results
edit- 1986
- 1st
Overall Tour de Lorraine - 1987
- 3rd Chrono des Herbiers
- 1988
- 1st
Overall Tour de Bretagne - 4th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- 4th Chrono des Herbiers
- 1990
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Asturias
- 3rd
Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships - 1991
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st GP Ouest–France
- 1st Stage 3 Bicicleta Vasca
- 1st Bordeaux–Caudéran
- 2nd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- 1992
- 4th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue
- 6th Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 9th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- 1993
- 1st
Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 7
- 1994
- 1st
Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st Paris–Camembert
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue
- 2nd GP du canton d'Argovie
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 6th Overall Giro del Trentino
- 6th Overall Critérium International
- 9th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1b (ITT)
- 1995
- 1st Trophée des Grimpeurs
- 5th GP de la Ville de Rennes
- 10th Overall Critérium International
- 1996
- 10th Subida a Urkiola
- 1997
- 1st Clásica de Sabiñánigo
- 2nd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 3rd Overall Tour of Galicia
- 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1998
- 1st
Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - 1st Overall Route du Sud
- 1st Stage 2
- 9th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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38 | 43 | 9 | DNF | — | — | — |
| Tour de France
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DNF | — | DNF | 62 | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
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— | DNF | — | — | DNF | DNF | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ "Armand de Las Cuevas". Procyclingstats.com. 15 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-15.
- ^ "Armand De Las Cuevas est décédé". lequipe.fr. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
External links
edit- Armand de Las Cuevas at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Armand de Las Cuevas at ProCyclingStats
- Armand de Las Cuevas at CycleBase
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