Pascal Jules
{{short description|French cyclist}}
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| image = Stèle Pascal Jules.jpg
| fullname = Pascal Jules
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1961|7|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = La Garenne-Colombes, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|10|25|1961|7|22|df=y}}
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| discipline = Road
| role = Rider
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| amateurteam1 =
| proyears1 = 1982–1985
| proteam1 = Renault–Elf
| proyears2 = 1986
| proteam2 = Seat–Orbea
| proyears3 = 1987
| proteam3 = Caja Rural–Seat
| majorwins = 1 stage 1984 Tour de France
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Pascal Jules (22 July 1961, in La Garenne-Colombes – 25 October 1987, in Bernay) was a French professional road bicycle racer.
Career
Jules was a close friend of Laurent Fignon whom he rode with at Renault–Elf between 1982 and 1985. Jules won one stage in the 1984 Tour de France. With Fignon, Marc Madiot and Greg LeMond, Jules was part of a quartet in that Renault team who were keen to succeed the legendary Bernard Hinault. However, after being thrown back by injury and a fight with team director Cyrille Guimard, he joined Marino Lejarreta's Seat–Orbea team.
Death
He died in 1987 following a car crash in Normandy, after returning from a football match for a charitable association.
In his autobiography entitled Nous étions jeunes et insouciants ("We were young and carefree") Laurent Fignon remembers Pascal Jules by saying:
"It was unsaid but there was a pact of kinship between us which was so strong, so inviolable, almost sacred, that it would last as long as life lasted. But some lives don't last that long."
Personal life
Jules was the father of Justin Jules, who became a professional cyclist himself.[http://sportgeschiedenis.nl/2010/09/20/het-maatje-van-laurent-fignon.aspx Het maatje van Laurent Fignon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204230132/http://www.sportgeschiedenis.nl/2010/09/20/het-maatje-van-laurent-fignon.aspx |date=2012-02-04 }} – Sportgeschiedenis {{in lang|nl}}
Career achievements
=Major results=
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;1982
:Fontenay-sous-Bois
;1983
:Quilan
:Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe
;1984
::Winner stage 8
:Chateau-Chinon
;1985
:Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe
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=Grand Tour general classification results timeline=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Grand Tour
! scope="col" | 1983 ! scope="col" | 1984 ! scope="col" | 1985 ! scope="col" | 1986 ! scope="col" | 1987 |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia |— |— |— |— |85 |
| style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France |61 |21 |— |DNF |114 |
| style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 77 | — |
| class="wikitable"
|+ Legend |
| scope="row" | —
| Did not compete |
|---|
| scope="row" | DNF
| Did not finish |
See also
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9fuZQQAACAAJ|title=We Were Young and Carefree|author=Fignon, Laurent|publisher=Random House|year=2010|isbn=0-224-08319-8| others=Fotheringham, William (trans.)}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{cycling Archives|1495}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080924030821/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/TDF/riders/us/4627.html Official Tour de France results for Pascal Jules]
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Category:Sportspeople from La Garenne-Colombes
Category:French Tour de France stage winners
Category:Cyclists from Hauts-de-Seine
Category:20th-century French sportsmen
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