Jean Forestier

Jean Forestier
	Forestier at the 1962 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Jean Forestier
Born	7 October 1930 (age 93); Lyon, France
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1953	Follis
1954-1956	Follis-Dunlop
1957	Essor-Leroux
1958	ACBB-Essor-Leroux-Hutchinson
1959	Essor-Leroux
1960	Helyett-Fynsec-Leroux
1961	Alcyon-Leroux
1962	Gitane-Leroux
1963-1964	Peugeot-BP
1965	Peugeot-BP-Michelin
Major wins
	Grand ToursTour de FrancePoints classification (1957)4 individual stages; (1954, 1955, 1956, 1961) One-day races and ClassicsTour of Flanders (1956)Paris–Roubaix (1955)

Jean Forestier (born 7 October 1930) is a French former cyclist. He was a professional from 1953 to 1965. Forestier won the points classification in the 1957 Tour de France,^[1] and wore the yellow jersey for two days.^[2] He also won the 1955 Paris–Roubaix.^[3]

Major results

Source:^[4]

1953

1st GP de Thizy

9th Overall Circuit des Six Provinces

1st Stage 1

1954

1st

Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 16 Tour de France

1st GP de Thizy

1955

1st Paris–Roubaix

1st GP de Cannes

1st Stage 20 Tour de France

10th Overall Tour du Sud-Est

1st Stage 2

1956

1st Tour of Flanders

1st Stage 16 Tour de France

1957

1st

Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stages 2 & 3b

1st

Overall Critérium National

1st Stage 8 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

4th Overall Tour de France

1st

Points classification

1958: 1st Stage 7a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1961: 1st Grand Prix du Parisien; 1st Stage 8 Tour de France

References

^ Augendre, Jacques (2009). "Guide Historique, Part 6" (PDF) (in French). Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
^ "The Tour - Jean Forestier". Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
^ "53rd Paris – Roubaix, 1955". bikeraceinfo. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
^ Jean Forestier at Cycling Archives

Bibliography

Prieur, Benoît (2018). Jean Forestier ou la conquête de Paris-Roubaix 1955 [Jean Forestier or the conquest of Paris-Roubaix 1955] (in French). Lexington, Kentucky: KDP. ISBN 978-1721841493. OCLC 1101112052.

External links

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[guide-1] Augendre, Jacques (2009). "Guide Historique, Part 6" (PDF) (in French). Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2010.

[2] "The Tour - Jean Forestier". Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2010.

[bikeraceinfo-3] "53rd Paris – Roubaix, 1955". bikeraceinfo. Retrieved 28 April 2015.

[4] Jean Forestier at Cycling Archives

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1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920) René Vermandel (1921) Léon Devos (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Gerard Debaets (1924) Julien Delbecque (1925) Denis Verschueren (1926) Gerard Debaets (1927) Jan Mertens (1928) Joseph Dervaes (1929) Frans Bonduel (1930) Romain Gijssels (1931–1932) Alphonse Schepers (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934) Louis Duerloo (1935) Louis Hardiquest (1936) Michel D'Hooghe (1937) Edgard De Caluwé (1938) Karel Kaers (1939)
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2020–2039	Mathieu van der Poel (2020) Kasper Asgreen (2021) Mathieu van der Poel (2022) Tadej Pogačar (2023) Mathieu van der Poel (2024)

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1880–1899	Josef Fischer (1896) Maurice Garin (1897–1898) Albert Champion (1899)
1900–1919	Émile Bouhours (1900) Lucien Lesna (1901–1902) Hippolyte Aucouturier (1903–1904) Louis Trousselier (1905) Henri Cornet (1906) Georges Passerieu (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Octave Lapize (1909–1911) Charles Crupelandt (1912) François Faber (1913) Charles Crupelandt (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Pélissier (1919)
1920–1939	Paul Deman (1920) Henri Pélissier (1921) Albert Dejonghe (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Jules Vanhevel (1924) Félix Sellier (1925) Julien Delbecque (1926) Georges Ronsse (1927) André Leducq (1928) Charles Meunier (1929) Julien Vervaecke (1930) Gaston Rebry (1931) Romain Gijssels (1932) Sylvère Maes (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934–1935) Georges Speicher (1936) Jules Rossi (1937) Lucien Storme (1938) Émile Masson Jr. (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Marcel Kint (1943) Maurice Desimpelaere (1944) Paul Maye (1945) Georges Claes (1946–1947) Rik Van Steenbergen (1948) André Mahé, Serse Coppi (1949) Fausto Coppi (1950) Antonio Bevilacqua (1951) Rik Van Steenbergen (1952) Germain Derycke (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Jean Forestier (1955) Louison Bobet (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Leon Vandaele (1958) Noël Foré (1959)
1960–1979	Pino Cerami (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961–1962) Emile Daems (1963) Peter Post (1964) Rik Van Looy (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Jan Janssen (1967) Eddy Merckx (1968) Walter Godefroot (1969) Eddy Merckx (1970) Roger Rosiers (1971) Roger De Vlaeminck (1972) Eddy Merckx (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974–1975) Marc Demeyer (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Francesco Moser (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Francesco Moser (1980) Bernard Hinault (1981) Jan Raas (1982) Hennie Kuiper (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Marc Madiot (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Eric Vanderaerden (1987) Dirk Demol (1988) Jean-Marie Wampers (1989) Eddy Planckaert (1990) Marc Madiot (1991) Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (1992–1993) Andrei Tchmil (1994) Franco Ballerini (1995) Johan Museeuw (1996) Frédéric Guesdon (1997) Franco Ballerini (1998) Andrea Tafi (1999)
2000–2019	Johan Museeuw (2000) Servais Knaven (2001) Johan Museeuw (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Magnus Bäckstedt (2004) Tom Boonen (2005) Fabian Cancellara (2006) Stuart O'Grady (2007) Tom Boonen (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Johan Vansummeren (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013) Niki Terpstra (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Mathew Hayman (2016) Greg Van Avermaet (2017) Peter Sagan (2018) Philippe Gilbert (2019)
2020–2039	(2020, not held) Sonny Colbrelli (2021) Dylan van Baarle (2022) Mathieu van der Poel (2023-2024)