Régis Clère

Régis Clère was a French professional road bicycle racer, born in Langres on 15 August 1956. During his career he won three stages of the Tour de France. One of them, in the 1987 Tour de France, came after he was almost eliminated for finishing outside the time limit on the previous stage, and the race jury allowed him to continue. In 1981 he won two stages of the Vuelta a España, and in 1982 he took the French National Road Race Championships. He also rode the individual road race at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Clère died in Dijon on 9 June 2012, aged 55, during a surgical procedure. The details here come from the English Wikipedia article, which also lists his profiles at ProCyclingStats, CycleBase and Olympedia.