Pierre Beuffeuil

Pierre Beuffeuil is a former French professional road racing cyclist, born at L'Éguille in France on 30 October 1934. He is best remembered for a stage win at the 1960 Tour de France, when he was riding for the regional Centre-Midi team. News came during the race that President Charles de Gaulle would be by the route at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, and the national champion Henry Anglade agreed on behalf of the riders that the field would stop. Beuffeuil had halted to repair a tyre and knew nothing of the plan; he arrived three minutes behind, found the whole race standing still in front of him, pressed on alone and won the stage on the boulevard Jules-Guesde by 49 seconds. In 1966 he won the stage from Montluçon to Orléans after a break of 204 km, and he finished third in the Four Days of Dunkirk in 1961 and again in 1966.