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Maurice Garin (March 3, 1871 - February 19, 1957) was a road bicycle racer. He is best known for winning the 1903 Tour de France - the first running of the event. is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on the road (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ... The 1903 Tour de France was the first Tour de France, set up and sponsored by the newspaper LAuto. ...

Garin was born in Arvier in the Aosta Valley in north-west Italy. He became a naturalized French citizen in December 1901, when he was a celebrated champion, winner of the second Paris-Roubaix. Arvier is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. ... The Aosta Valley (Italian: Valle dAosta, French: VallÃ©e dAoste, Arpitan: Val dOuta) is a mountainous Region in north-western Italy. ...

Although initially declared the winner of the 1904 Tour de France, Garin was later disqualified for reasons that neither the Tour de France organisation nor the French cycling authorities made clear. They were said to include taking a train through part of the route, a claim which Les Woodland says in his book "The Unknown Tour de France" is confirmed by one of the cemetery attendants looking after his grave and who, as a boy, heard Garin tell his stories as an old man. The detailed allegations, which were not made public, were lost when the Tour de France archives vanished while being taken south to escape the German invasion in 1940. The Tour de France 1904 was the second edition of the Tour de France, and was held from July 2 to July 24, 1904. ...

Garin subsequently retired from professional cycling and ran a small garage in Lens until his death. As an old man he became confused and wandered through Lens asking "Where is the control? Where is the control?" as his mind brought back images of the hotels where riders signed check sheets in the first Tours. He regularly ended up at the town's police station, from where he was escorted back home Lens is commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais dÃ©partement. ...

He is buried with his three wives in the Cimetière Est in the neighbouring suburb of Sallaumines.

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Begun in 1896, Paris-Roubaix, third of the ten UCI World Cup races, has become the most famous single-day bicycle road race. ... The Bordeaux-Paris professional cycle race was one of mainland Europes Classic cycle races, and the longest in the professional calendar, covering a distance of approximately 350 miles (560 kilometres) - more than twice the distance of most single day races. ... The 1903 Tour de France was the first Tour de France, set up and sponsored by the newspaper LAuto. ... Image File history File links Jersey_yellow. ...

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1903 Maurice Garin · 1904 Henri Cornet · 1905 Louis Trousselier · 1906 René Pottier · 1907-1908 Lucien Petit-Breton · 1909 François Faber · 1910 Octave Lapize · 1911 Gustave Garrigou · 1912 Odile Defraye · 1913-1914 Philippe Thys · 1915-1918 World War I · 1919 Firmin Lambot · 1920 Philippe Thys · 1921 Léon Scieur · 1922 Firmin Lambot · 1923 Henri Pélissier · 1924-1925 Ottavio Bottecchia · 1926 Lucien Buysse · 1927-1928 Nicolas Frantz · 1929 Maurice De Waele · 1930 André Leducq · 1931 Antonin Magne · 1932 André Leducq · 1933 Georges Speicher · 1934 Antonin Magne · 1935 Romain Maes · 1936 Sylvère Maes · 1937 Roger Lapébie · 1938 Gino Bartali · 1939 Sylvère Maes · 1940-1946 World War II · 1947 Jean Robic · 1948 Gino Bartali · 1949 Fausto Coppi · 1950 Ferdinand Kübler · 1951 Hugo Koblet · 1952 Fausto Coppi · 1953-1955 Louison Bobet · 1956 Roger Walkowiak · 1957 Jacques Anquetil · 1958 Charly Gaul · 1959 Federico Bahamontes · 1960 Gastone Nencini · 1961-1964 Jacques Anquetil · 1965 Felice Gimondi · 1966 Lucien Aimar · 1967 Roger Pingeon · 1968 Jan Janssen · 1969-1972 Eddy Merckx · 1973 Luis Ocaña · 1974 Eddy Merckx · 1975 Bernard Thévenet · 1976 Lucien Van Impe · 1977 Bernard Thévenet · 1978-1979 Bernard Hinault · 1980 Joop Zoetemelk · 1981-1982 Bernard Hinault · 1983-1984 Laurent Fignon · 1985 Bernard Hinault · 1986 Greg LeMond · 1987 Stephen Roche · 1988 Pedro Delgado · 1989-1990 Greg LeMond · 1991-1995 Miguel Indurain · 1996 Bjarne Riis · 1997 Jan Ullrich · 1998 Marco Pantani · 1999-2005 Lance Armstrong · 2006 Óscar Pereiro · 2007 Alberto Contador · For other uses, see Tour de France (disambiguation). ... 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