Ferdinand Le Drogo

Ferdinand Le Drogo was a French professional road bicycle racer, born on 10 October 1903 and died on 24 April 1976. He is most known for his silver medal in the elite race of the 1931 Road World Championships, and he was the older brother of the cyclist Paul Le Drogo. In the 1927 Tour de France he rode for the Dilecta-Wolber team, whose leader Francis Pelissier took the first leader's position. Le Drogo won the fifth stage, and when Pelissier abandoned ill in the sixth stage he became the new race leader, second overall behind him until then. On the seventh stage the Tour crossed the region where he was born; his supporters cheered him, he sped away from his teammates, spent too much energy and lost twenty minutes to the J.B. Louvet team, so the lead passed to Hector Martin and Le Drogo never led the Tour again.