Jean-Pierre Schmitz, known as Jempy Schmitz, was a Luxembourgish professional road cyclist, born on 15 February 1932 and died on 14 November 2017 at the age of 85. He won the Midi Libre in 1957, the Tour de Luxembourg in 1954 and 1958, and a stage of the 1956 Tour de France. In 1955 he finished second in the world road race championship, behind Stan Ockers. The results list in his article also records the Luxembourg national amateur road race championship in 1952 and the Luxembourg national road race championship in 1958. The English Wikipedia article is brief and points to the Cycling Archives and the official Tour de France results for the rest of his career.
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was a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer
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