Paul Chocque

Paul Chocque was a French professional road racing cyclist, born on 14 July 1910 and died on 4 September 1949. He won a silver medal in the team pursuit at the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1934 he travelled to Australia with Fernand Mithouard to ride the Centenary 1000, a seven stage race of about 1,773 kilometres run as part of the Victorian centenary celebrations, where he was leading the Ballarat sprint on stage 3 when a collision broke his collarbone and forced him out. He rode as a professional for numerous teams from 1933 to 1949. In the 1937 Tour de France, his second appearance, he finished seventh and won two stages. He also won the 1936 Bordeaux-Paris, finished fourth in the 1937 Paris-Tours and took the French cyclo-cross championship in 1936 and 1938. He died aged 39 after a fall during a motor paced race at the Parc des Princes in Paris.