1. Nicolas Frantz rode for the Thomann team in 1923 and then for Alcyon-Dunlop from 1924 to 1931.
16 Facts About Nicolas Frantz
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Nicolas Frantz won the Tour de France in 1927 and 1928.
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Nicolas Frantz was the son of a prosperous farming family.
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Nicolas Frantz was close to unbeatable in Luxembourg until the start of the first world war.
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Nicolas Frantz had immediate success, winning Paris-Lyon and the GP Faber.
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Nicolas Frantz rode the Tour de France for the first time in 1924, won two stages and finished second just 35 minutes and 36 seconds behind Ottavio Bottecchia.
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Nicolas Frantz won three stages in 1927 and won overall.
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Nicolas Frantz was seventeen minutes behind the race-leader Hector Martin before start of the stage to Luchon but finished in yellow.
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Nicolas Frantz finished an hour and forty eight minutes ahead of second placed Maurice De Waele.
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Nicolas Frantz wore the yellow jersey from the first to last day in 1928, the only rider since Ottavio Bottecchia to have done so.
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Nicolas Frantz borrowed an undersized, women's bicycle and was helped back into the race by his Alcyon domestiques.
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Nicolas Frantz exchanged it for another Alcyon bicycle, which he rode to victory in Paris ahead of teammates Andre Leducq and De Waele.
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Nicolas Frantz twice finished in the first three of the world championship.
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Nicolas Frantz won the championship of Luxembourg for 12 consecutive years.
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Nicolas Frantz was the first national team manager of Charly Gaul in the Tour de France.
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Nicolas Frantz retired to the village of Mamer and died there in 1985.