18 Facts About Raymond Delisle

Raymond Delisle was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Raymond Delisle rode 12 Tours de France between 1965 and 1977.

Raymond Delisle won two stages, one in 1969 and one in 1976.

Raymond Delisle wore the Maillot Jaune as leader of the general classification for two days after his stage win in 1976.

Raymond Delisle owned a hotel in Hebecrevon, Manche until his death officially recorded as suicide on 11 August 2013.

Raymond Delisle was born on a farm near Coutances, in Normandy.

Raymond Delisle had three sisters and it was on a women's bike too large for him that he began riding in the area around the farm.

Raymond Delisle studied to become a plumber but became an assistant-surveyor, a job which would let him ride to wherever he was working.

Raymond Delisle joined the local Periers-Sports club in 1959 and won his first race the following season.

Raymond Delisle joined the AC Boulogne-Billancourt in the capital's north-western suburbs, a club which had supplied riders to the Peugeot professional team.

Raymond Delisle came third in the 1963 Route de France, one of the country's biggest and hardest stage races.

Raymond Delisle's ride brought selection for the national team in the Tour de l'Avenir, a race for amateurs and semi-professionals which rode ahead of the Tour de France on its mountain stages.

Raymond Delisle finished third behind Andre Zimmerman and Rolf Maurer.

Raymond Delisle won the national championship on a wind-blown circuit at Soissons in 1969 and on 28 June went to the start of the Tour de France in Roubaix.

Raymond Delisle wore not the white and black jersey of Peugeot-BP, his sponsor, but the blue, white and red of champion.

Raymond Delisle won the Polymultipliee and a criterium at Lescouet-Jugon in his last season, 1977.

Raymond Delisle came ninth in the Tour de France and fifth in the season-long Prestige Pernod, forerunner of the World Cup.

Raymond Delisle retired at the end of that season and began selling bicycles under his own name.