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Octave Lapize
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Key facts
- Full name
- Octave Lapize
- Nickname
- Tatave , Le Frisé (The Curly Haired-One)
- Born
- ( 1887-10-24 ) 24 October 1887, Paris , France
- Died
- 14 July 1917 (1917-07-14) (aged 29), Toul , France
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 14th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- Toul
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- mort pour la France
- Participant in
- 1908 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Member of team
- La Française
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Octave Lapize 1913.jpg
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- Commons category
- Octave Lapize
- date of birth
- 1887-10-24
- date of death
- 1917-07-14
- birth name
- Louis Octave Lapize
- name in native language
- Octave Lapize
- military casualty classification
- killed in action
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Encyclopedic overview
Octave Lapize ( pronounced [ɔktav lapiz]; 24 October 1887 – 14 July 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.
Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Octave Lapize” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.