René Le Grevès

René Le Grevès, born in Paris in 1910 and killed in a skiing accident on 25 February 1946, was a French road and track cyclist. As an amateur he won several road races, missed a medal by one place in the road race at the 1930 World Championships, and won the silver medal in the team pursuit at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He turned professional in 1933 and, between 1933 and 1939, won sixteen stages of the Tour de France, six of them in 1936 and three in a row in 1935, which made him one of the best sprinters of the race. He also won Paris-Tours in 1935 and the French road race championship in 1936. In 1937 he founded a bicycle shop that his family still runs.