Jacques Michaud

{{short description|French cyclist}}

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| name = Jacques Michaud

| image = Jacques Michaud - Six jours de Grenoble 2011.jpg

| fullname = Jacques Michaud

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|7|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France

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| currentteam = Retired

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

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| majorwins = 1 stage 1983 Tour de France

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Jacques Michaud (born 11 July 1951) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who won the eighteenth stage in the 1983 Tour de France. In that stage, he climbed the Col des Aravis, the Col de la Colombière and the Col de Joux Plane first, and finished with an advantage of 66 seconds on the next cyclist.{{cite web|url=http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1978_2005/tdf1983_18.php|title=70ème Tour de France 1983 - 18ème étape|language=French|accessdate=2 January 2010}}

Michaud rode the Tour de France five times; he completed the course all five times, and his best result in the general classification was 18th.{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4426.html|title=The Tour - Jacques Michaud|publisher=Amaury Sport Organisation|accessdate=2 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709033905/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4426.html|archive-date=9 July 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

Major results

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;1979

:Étoile de Bessèges

;1983

:Tour de France:

::Winner stage 18

:Cluses

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