# Roger Pingeon

Roger Pingeon (pronounced; 28 August 1940 – 19 March 2017) was a professional road bicycle racer from France.

## Biography

Growing up near the Jura Mountains, he was a cross-country skier as a teenager before taking up bicycle racing. He spent two years in Algeria on military service before starting his professional cycling career relatively late. He raced as a professional from 1964 to 1974. In 1967, Pingeon won the Tour de France. In 1969, Pingeon won the Vuelta a España and finished second behind Eddy Merckx in the Tour de France. He took a total of four Tour de France stage wins and finished in the top five of the race's general classification three times during his career. After retiring from competition he worked as a consultant for Radio Télévision Suisse between 1979 and 1998. Pingeon died on 19 March 2017 at his home in the village of Beaupont in the Ain department, about 100 km away from his hometown of Hauteville-Lompnes, after suffering a heart attack.

## Major results

Source:

### 1965

    2nd Coppa Agostoni
    2nd Grand Prix de la Trinité
    5th Grand Prix des Nations
    5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    7th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    9th Overall Circuit du Provençal

### 1966

    2nd Overall Critérium National de la Route
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Mont Faron Hill Climb
    4th Grand Prix des Nations
    7th Gran Premio di Lugano
    8th Overall Tour de France

### 1967

    1st Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 5a
    2nd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    2nd Circuit de l'Aulne
    3rd Genoa–Nice
    4th Circuit des Boucles de la Seine
    4th Grand Prix de Monaco
    5th À travers Lausanne
    5th Gran Premio di Lugano
    5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Raymond Poulidor)
    6th Paris–Tours
    7th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
    7th Paris–Tours
    8th Overall Paris–Luxembourg
       1st Stage 2

### 1968

    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Critérium National de la Route
    3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb
    3rd Baden-Baden (with Charly Grosskost)
    5th Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 15 & 18
       Combativity award Overall
    7th Overall Giro di Sardegna
    7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
    9th Tour de l'Hérault

### 1969

    1st Overall Vuelta a España
       1st Stage 12 & 14b (ITT)
    1st Flèche Enghiennoise
    2nd Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 9
    3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
       1st Mountains classification
    4th Overall À travers Lausanne
    9th Overall Paris–Nice
    10th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc

### 1970

    2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Raphaël
    3rd Mont Faron Hill Climb
    4th Overall Critérium National de la Route
    4th Tour du Haut Var
    4th Grand Prix de Monaco
    9th Polymultipliée
    10th Tour de l'Hérault

### 1971

    3rd Coppa Agostoni
    3rd Trophée Baracchi (with Bernard Thévenet)
    5th Grand Prix des Nations
    10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

### 1972

    Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
       1st Prologue (TTT) & Stage 1
    2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
    5th Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Prologue (TTT)
    7th Overall Paris–Nice
    9th Étoile de Bessèges

### 1974

    1st Grand Prix de Plumelec
    5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    6th Critérium National de la Route

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | DNF | — |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | DNF | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 12 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | DNF | — | DNF | — | 11 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |