Pascal Jules
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Pascal Jules |
| Born | 22 July 1961 La Garenne-Colombes, France |
| Died | 25 October 1987 (aged 26) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1982–1985 | Renault–Elf–Gitane |
| 1986–1987 | Seat–Orbea |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Pascal Jules (22 July 1961, in La Garenne-Colombes – 25 October 1987, in Bernay) was a French professional road bicycle racer.
Career
[edit | edit source]Jules was a close friend of Laurent Fignon whom he rode with at Renault–Elf between 1982 and 1985. Jules won one stage in the 1984 Tour de France. With Fignon, Marc Madiot and Greg LeMond, Jules was part of a quartet in that Renault team who were keen to succeed the legendary Bernard Hinault. However, after being thrown back by injury and a fight with team director Cyrille Guimard, he joined Marino Lejarreta's Seat–Orbea team.
Death
[edit | edit source]He died in 1987 following a car crash in Normandy, after returning from a football match for a charitable association.
In his autobiography entitled Nous étions jeunes et insouciants ("We were young and carefree") Laurent Fignon remembers Pascal Jules by saying: "It was unsaid but there was a pact of kinship between us which was so strong, so inviolable, almost sacred, that it would last as long as life lasted. But some lives don't last that long."
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Jules was the father of Justin Jules, who became a professional cyclist himself.[1]
Career achievements
[edit | edit source]Major results
[edit | edit source]- 1982
- 1st Stage 4 Étoile des Espoirs
- 1st Stage 11 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 4b Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Prologue Tour de Luxembourg
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd Giro del Piemonte
- 2nd Paris–Brussels
- 4th GP de Denain
- 1983
- 1st
Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Overall Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 1 Tour d'Armorique
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 5th Grand Prix Cerami
- 6th GP de la Ville de Rennes
- 9th Bordeaux–Paris
- 1984
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 2a Tour Midi-Pyrénées
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1985
- 1st Overall Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe
- 3rd Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 1986
- 1st Stage 11 Tour de la Communauté Européenne
- 1987
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucía
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit | edit source]| Grand Tour | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | — | — | 85 |
| Tour de France
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61 | 21 | — | DNF | 114 |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | 77 | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
See also
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Het maatje van Laurent Fignon Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine – Sportgeschiedenis (in Dutch)
External links
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- Official Tour de France results for Pascal Jules
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