CYCLIST

Maurice Garin

1871 - 1957

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Maurice-François Garin (pronounced [mɔʁis fʁɑ̃swa ɡaʁɛ̃, moʁ-]; 3 March 1871 – 19 February 1957) was an Italian-French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Garin has received more than 325,662 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Maurice Garin is the 7th most popular cyclist (down from 4th in 2019), the 1,200th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Cyclist.

Maurice Garin is most famous for being the first winner of the Tour de France in 1903.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Maurice Garin ranks 7 out of 1,613. Before him are Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi, Federico Bahamontes, Jacques Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor, and Gino Bartali. After him are Bernard Hinault, Lucien Petit-Breton, Miguel Induráin, Felice Gimondi, Lance Armstrong, and Hugo Koblet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Maurice Garin ranks 26. Before him are František Kupka, Giacomo Balla, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Stjepan Radić, and Émile Borel. After him are William Stern, Cordell Hull, Leonid Andreyev, Ernst Zermelo, Walter Bradford Cannon, and Nicolae Iorga. Among people deceased in 1957, Maurice Garin ranks 39. Before him are Alfonso de Portago, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, V. Gordon Childe, Beniamino Gigli, and Max Ophüls. After him are Antonín Zápotocký, Erich Auerbach, Moša Pijade, Eliot Ness, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, and Leo Perutz.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Maurice Garin ranks 1,200 out of 5,161. Before him are Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (1589), Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663), Enzo Bearzot (1927), Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Giorgia Meloni (1977), and Andrea Gritti (1455). After him are Orcagna (1315), Armando Diaz (1861), Alessandro Valignano (1539), Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (-265), Antonio Segni (1891), and Antipope John XVI (1000).

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Among CYCLISTS In Italy

Among cyclists born in Italy, Maurice Garin ranks 3. Before him are Fausto Coppi (1919), and Gino Bartali (1914). After him are Felice Gimondi (1942), Marco Pantani (1970), Alfredo Binda (1902), Ottavio Bottecchia (1894), Carlo Galetti (1882), Francesco Moser (1951), Gastone Nencini (1930), Luigi Ganna (1883), and Paolo Pedretti (1906).

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