Dominique Arnaud

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| fullname = Dominique Arnaud

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| birth_date = {{birth date |df=y|1955|9|19}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|7|20|1955|9|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tarnos, France

| death_place = Dax, Aquitaine, France

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| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

| ridertype = Road captain

| amateuryears1 =

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| proyears1 = 1980

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|MOV|1980}}

| proyears2 = 1981–1983

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Wolber–Spidel|1981}}

| proyears3 = 1984–1985

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|LVC|1984}}

| proyears4 = 1986–1991

| proteam4 = {{UCI team code|MOV|1986}}

| majorwins = Grand Tours

:Vuelta a España

::3 individual stages (1980, 1982, 1987)

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Dominique Arnaud (19 September 1955 – 20 July 2016) was a French racing cyclist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2416936&CategoryId=13002|title=Latin American Herald Tribune - Former French Cyclist Dominique Arnaud Dies at 60|website=www.laht.com|access-date=2016-07-22|archive-date=22 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722181701/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=13002&ArticleId=2416936|url-status=dead}} He rode in eleven editions of the Tour de France.

Arnaud won three stages in the Vuelta a España, a stage in the Midi Libre and the Tour du Limousin in 1983.[http://www.sudouest.fr/2016/07/20/dominique-arnaud-est-decede-2441146-4596.php L'ancien coureur cycliste Dominique Arnaud est décédé] – Sud Ouest {{in lang|fr}}

Personal life

=Death=

Arnaud lived in Mées, but died of cancer in a hospital in Dax. A week before his death, a square in Mées was named after him.[http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/France-Monde/Sport/Cyclisme/Cyclisme/n/Contenus/Articles/2016/07/20/Cyclisme-deces-de-l-ancien-coureur-Dominique-Arnaud-2788851 Cyclisme: décès de l'ancien coureur Dominique Arnaud] – La Nouvelle République {{in lang|fr}}

Major results

;1980

:1st Stage 16a Vuelta a España

:10th Trofeo Masferrer

;1981

:2nd GP Ouest-France

:2nd Overall Tour du Limousin

:2nd Overall Étoile des Espoirs

:10th Overall Tour du Vaucluse

;1982

:1st Stage 14 Vuelta a España

;1983

:1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour du Limousin

:1st GP de la Ville de Rennes

:6th GP Ouest-France

;1984

:4th La Flèche Wallonne

:7th Circuit Cycliste Sarthe

:9th Overall Tour du Limousin

;1985

:1st Stage 3a Tour d'Armorique

:1st Maël-Pestivien

:4th Grand Prix de Mauléon-Moulins

:9th Overall Tour du Limousin

::1st Stage 4

;1986

:1st Stage 5a Volta a Catalunya

;1987

:1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España

:1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía

;1988

:2nd Boucles de l'Aulne

;1990

:1st Stage 4 Tour du Vaucluse

:2nd Overall GP du Midi-Libre

::1st Stage 6 (ITT)

=Grand Tour general classification results timeline=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
scope="col" \| Grand Tour ! scope="col" \| 1980 ! scope="col" \| 1981 ! scope="col" \| 1982 ! scope="col" \| 1983 ! scope="col" \| 1984 ! scope="col" \| 1985 ! scope="col" \| 1986 ! scope="col" \| 1987 ! scope="col" \| 1988 ! scope="col" \| 1989 ! scope="col" \| 1990 ! scope="col" \| 1991
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey yellow.svg Vuelta a España \|54 \|— \|22 \|— \|— \|— \|— \|50 \|— \|38 \|— \|—
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia \|— \|— \|— \|25 \|— \|34 \|— \|— \|38 \|— \|— \|33
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France \|— \|24 \|36 \|26 \|54 \|22 \|76 \|DNF \|48 \|30 \|59 \|77

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

scope="col" | Grand Tour

! scope="col" | 1980

! scope="col" | 1981

! scope="col" | 1982

! scope="col" | 1983

! scope="col" | 1984

! scope="col" | 1985

! scope="col" | 1986

! scope="col" | 1987

! scope="col" | 1988

! scope="col" | 1989