Roger Pingeon

Roger Pingeon (28 August 1940 – 19 March 2017) was a professional road bicycle racer from France.

Biography
Growing up near the Jura Mountains, he was a cross-country skier as a teenager before taking up bicycle racing. He spent two years in Algeria on military service before starting his professional cycling career relatively late. He raced as a professional from 1964 to 1974. In 1967, Pingeon won the Tour de France. In 1969, Pingeon won the Vuelta a España and finished second behind Eddy Merckx in the Tour de France. He took a total of four Tour de France stage wins and finished in the top five of the race's general classification three times during his career. After retiring from competition he worked as a consultant for Radio Télévision Suisse between 1979 and 1998. Pingeon died on 19 March 2017 at his home in the village of Beaupont in the Ain department, about 100 km away from his hometown of Hauteville-Lompnes, after suffering a heart attack.

Major results
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 * 1964
 * 1st Poly Lyonnaise


 * 1965
 * 2nd Grand Prix de la Trinité
 * 2nd Coppa Ugo Agostoni
 * 5th Grand Prix des Nations
 * 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
 * 7th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
 * 12th Overall Tour de France


 * 1966
 * 2nd Overall Critérium National
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 2nd Mont Faron hill climb
 * 4th Grand Prix des Nations
 * 8th Overall Tour de France


 * 1967
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 5a
 * 1st Stage 2 Paris–Luxembourg
 * 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
 * 3rd Gênes–Nice
 * 4th Boucles de la Seine
 * 5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Raymond Poulidor)
 * 7th Paris–Tours


 * 1968
 * 2nd National Road Race Championship
 * 3rd Overall Critérium National
 * 3rd Grand Prix of Baden-Baden (with Charly Grosskost)
 * 3rd Mont Faron hill climb
 * 5th Overall Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 15 & 18
 * Jersey red number.svg Combativity Award
 * 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège


 * 1969
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a España
 * 1st Stage 12 & 14b (ITT)
 * 2nd Overall Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 9
 * 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
 * 1st Mountains classification
 * 9th Overall Paris–Nice


 * 1970
 * 2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
 * 3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Raphaël
 * 3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb
 * 4th Overall Critérium National


 * 1971
 * 3rd Trophée Baracchi (with Bernard Thévenet)
 * 3rd Coppa Ugo Agostoni
 * 5th Grand Prix des Nations


 * 1972
 * 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
 * 5th Overall Tour de Romandie
 * 7th Overall Paris–Nice


 * 1974
 * 1st Grand Prix de Plumelec
 * 1st Prix de Saint-Claud
 * 1st Prix de La Bastide
 * 3rd Trophée des Grimpeurs
 * 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré