Achille Souchard
Appearance
![]() Achille Souchard in 1920 | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Born | 17 May 1900 Le Mans, France | |||||||||||
Died | 20 September 1976[1] Paris, France | (aged 76)|||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Alphonse Achille Souchard (17 May 1900 – 20 September 1976) was a French cyclist who competed in the road race at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He finished tenth individually and won a gold medal in the team time trial.[2]
After winning several amateur races in 1922–23, including the French Road Championships, he turned professional, and won the national again title in 1925 and 1926. He rode the 1924 Tour de France, but did not finish.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Achille Souchard at Olympedia
- ^ a b "Achille Souchard". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ Achille Souchard. cyclingarchives.com
External links
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Categories:
- 1900 births
- 1976 deaths
- French male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for France
- Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Sportspeople from Le Mans
- Cyclists from Sarthe
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century French sportsmen
- French cycling biography, 1900s birth stubs
- French cycling Olympic medalist stubs