Michel Frédérick

Michel Frédérick (6 November 1872 to 22 June 1912) was a Swiss professional road racing cyclist, born in Zürich, who died at Nice at the age of 39. He won the first stage of the 1904 Tour de France and led the general classification for a day, the second rider who was not French to do so after Charles Laeser in the 1903 Tour de France. That Tour saw many disqualifications because riders were accused of taking the train, and his stage victory was not acknowledged until months after the race; he dropped to 14th place on the second stage and did not start the third. Earlier in his career he finished third in Paris-Roubaix and second in Bordeaux-Paris.