Marcel Molinès

Marcel Molinès (22 December 1928 to 1 July 2011) was a professional road racing cyclist born in Algeria, at that time part of France. He is recorded as the first cyclist born in Africa to win a stage of the Tour de France. He rode the 1950 Tour de France in a team representing French North Africa alongside Abdel-Kader Zaaf. On the stage from Perpignan to Nîmes, run in a heat wave, the two escaped and rode some 200 kilometres by themselves with a lead of up to twenty minutes; Zaaf began to zigzag near the finish and was pulled off his bike, and Molinès went on to win the stage by five minutes. His career included riding for teams such as Peugeot and Dilecta. The source adds that nothing is known of his later whereabouts.