Jean-Pierre Danguillaume

Jean-Pierre Danguillaume, born on 25 May 1946, is a retired French professional road bicycle racer and the nephew of the cyclist Camille Danguillaume. He began with U.C. Joue and, as an amateur, rode the team time trial at the 1968 Summer Olympics and won the 1969 Peace Race. He turned professional in 1970 with the Peugeot team and stayed with it for his whole professional career. Between 1970 and 1978 he won seven stages of the Tour de France, and his other wins included the Grand Prix de Plouay in 1971, the Critérium International in 1973, the Grand Prix du Midi Libre in 1974 and Paris-Bourges in 1975, the year he also took bronze in the road race at the World Championships in Yvoir. Across his career he took 350 wins, 68 of them as a professional. He then worked as a directeur sportif and later as a Coca-Cola executive at the Tour de France.