Louis Darragon

{{Short description|French cyclist (1883–1918)}}

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|birth_date=6 February 1883

|birth_place=Vichy, France

|death_date=28 April 1918 (aged 35)

|death_place=Paris, France

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{{MedalCompetition|UCI Motor-paced World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1906 Geneva|Professionals}}

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Louis Darragon (6 February 1883 – 28 April 1918) was a French professional cyclist who won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1906 and 1907 and finished in second place in 1909 and 1911. He died in 1918 during a race at the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris. The city stadium in his native Vichy is named after him.

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[http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/palmares/darragon_louis.php Louis Darragon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915021647/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/palmares/darragon_louis.php |date=2011-09-15 }}. memoire-du-cyclisme.net

[http://www.bikecult.com/bikecultbook/sports_trackWorlds.html Track Cycling World Championships 2012 to 1893]. bikecult.com

Sport-Album der Rad-Welt, 4. Jg., 1905

Fredy Budzinski: Louis Darragon, Biographien berühmter Rennfahrer, Band 14, Berlin 1920

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Category:1883 births

Category:1918 deaths

Category:French male cyclists

Category:Sportspeople from Vichy

Category:UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)

Category:French track cyclists

Category:Cyclists who died while racing

Category:Sport deaths in France

Category:Cyclists from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes