Roger Pingeon

Roger Pingeon (1940 to 2017) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Growing up near the Jura Mountains, he was a cross-country skier as a teenager before taking up bicycle racing, and after two years of military service in Algeria he began his professional career relatively late, racing as a professional from 1964 to 1974. He won the Tour de France in 1967, and in 1969 he won the Vuelta a España and finished second behind Eddy Merckx in the Tour de France. He took four Tour de France stage wins in total and finished in the top five of the general classification three times. After retiring he worked as a consultant for Radio Télévision Suisse from 1979 to 1998.