Pierre Brambilla
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Pierre Brambilla |
| Nickname | La Brambille |
| Born | 12 May 1919 Villarbeney, Switzerland |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1939 | Terrot |
| 1942 | Tendil - Hutchinson |
| 1944 | Mercier - Hutchinson |
| 1946–1949 | Metropole - Dunlop |
| 1950 | Mervil |
| 1951 | Alcyon - Dunlop |
| Major wins | |
| King of Mountain, 1947 Tour de France | |
| Infobox last updated on 30 June 2008 |
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Pierre Brambilla (12 May 1919 at Villarbeney in Switzerland – 13 February 1984 at Grenoble, France) is a former French former professional road bicycle racer. He was of Italian origin but adopted French nationality on 9 September 1949. He was known as "la Brambille" and he won the King of the Mountains competition in the 1947 Tour de France where he also finished third overall and wore the maillot jaune for two days. In that 1947 Tour, Brambilla was leading the race at the penultimate day, with Aldo Ronconi at 53 seconds and Jean Robic at 2'58". At the last stage, Caen-Paris, Robic and Edouard Fachleitner attacked, and finished more than 13 minutes before Brambilla, taking the first two places. Brambilla was the first cyclist to lose the lead in the Tour de France on the last stage. Brambilla is pictured in a short story 'Brambilla' by Julian Barnes, published in a collection of short stories Cross Channel in 1996.
Palmarès
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- 1939
- Lyon - Grenoble - Lyon (with Giuseppe Martino)
- 1941
- Montluçon
- 1942
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 10
- Mountains classification circuit de France
- 1943
- Carcassonne
- Circuit du Mont Ventoux
- Course du Mont Chauve
- GP d'Espéraza
- GP Haute Savoie
- Perpignan
- 1945
- Annecy - Grenoble - Annecy
- 1946
- Tour de l'Ouest
- 1947
- Paris - Clermont-Ferrand
- Tour de France:
- Winner Mountains classification
- 3rd place overall classification
- Wearing yellow jersey for two days
- 1949
- Cahors
External links
- Pierre Brambilla at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).[dead link]
- Official Tour de France results for Pierre Brambilla
- Pierre Brambilla dans le Tour de France (French)
