José Catieau

José Catieau (17 July 1946 to 30 November 2023) was a French professional road racing cyclist who rode as a professional from 1969 to 1976. In 1973 he was a teammate of the Spanish rider Luis Oca on the Bic team. At the start of the 1973 Tour de France he won stage 1b into St. Niklaas in Belgium. On the third stage, which began in Roubaix and crossed cobblestones at Querenaing, Catieau, Oca and three teammates went away in a group of five and built an advantage that was over five minutes at one point. Cyrille Guimard won the sprint at the Reims velodrome, but Catieau took the yellow jersey and kept it for four days, until the first mountain stage when Oca took it. He also won Paris-Camembert in 1972.