(1954-11-14) 14 November 1954 (age 69) Yffiniac, France
Height
1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight
62 kg (137 lb; 9 st 11 lb)
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
All-rounder
Professional teams
1975–1977
Gitane–Campagnolo
1978–1983
Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo
1984–1986
La Vie Claire
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985)
Points classification (1979)
Mountains classification (1986)
Combativity classification (1981, 1984, 1986)
Combination classification (1981, 1982)
28 individual stages (1978–1986)
1 TTT stage (1985)
Giro d'Italia
General classification (1980, 1982, 1985)
6 individual stages (1980, 1982, 1985)
1 TTT stage (1982)
Vuelta a España
General classification (1978, 1983)
7 individual stages (1978, 1983)
Stage races
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1977, 1979, 1981)
Critérium International (1978, 1981)
Tour de Romandie (1980)
One-day races and Classics
World Road Race Championships (1980)
National Road Race Championships (1978)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1977, 1980)
Giro di Lombardia (1979, 1984)
Paris–Roubaix (1981)
La Flèche Wallonne (1979, 1983)
Gent–Wevelgem (1977)
Amstel Gold Race (1981)
Grand Prix des Nations (1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984)
Other
Super Prestige Pernod International (1979–1982)
Medal record
Representing France
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
1980 Sallanches
Road race
1981 Prague
Road race
Bernard Hinault (pronounced[bɛʁ.naʁi.no]; born 14 November 1954) is a French former professional road cyclist. With 147 professional victories,[1] including five times the Tour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time. In his career, Hinault entered a total of thirteen Grand Tours. He abandoned one of them while in the lead, finished in 2nd place on two occasions and won the other ten, putting him one behind Merckx for the all-time record. No rider since Hinault has achieved more than seven.
Hinault started cycling as an amateur in his native Brittany. After a successful amateur career, he signed with the Gitane–Campagnolo team to turn professional in 1975. He took breakthrough victories at both the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic and the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race in 1977. In 1978, he won his first two Grand Tours: the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France. In the following years, he was the most successful professional cyclist, adding another Tour victory in 1979 and a win at the 1980 Giro d'Italia. Although a knee injury forced him to quit the 1980 Tour de France while in the lead, he returned to win the World Championship road race later in the year. He added another Tour victory in 1981, before completing his first Giro-Tour double in 1982.
After winning the 1983 Vuelta a España, a return of his knee problems forced him to miss that year's Tour de France, won by his teammate Laurent Fignon. Conflict within the Renault team led to his leaving and joining La Vie Claire. With his new team, he raced the 1984 Tour de France, but lost to Fignon by over ten minutes. He recovered the following year, winning another Giro-Tour double with the help of teammate Greg LeMond. In the 1986 Tour de France, he engaged in an intra-team rivalry with LeMond, who won his first of three Tours. Hinault retired at the end of the season. As of 2022[update] he is the most recent French winner of the Tour de France. After his cycling career, Hinault turned to farming, while fulfilling enforcement duties for the organisers of the Tour de France until 2016.
All through his career, Hinault was known by the nickname Le Blaireau ("The Badger"); he associated himself with the animal due to its aggressive nature, a trait he embodied on the bike. Within the peloton, Hinault assumed the role of patron, exercising authority over races he took part in.
^"Bernard Hinault wins". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
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the Tour was dominated by Frenchman BernardHinault, who would become the third rider to win five times. Hinault was defeated by Joop Zoetemelk in 1980...
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directeur sportif and television commentator. Three of his riders, BernardHinault, Laurent Fignon, and Lucien Van Impe, won the Tour de France. Another...
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hold all three Grand Tour winners' jerseys at the same time since BernardHinault in 1983. Throughout his career Froome has faced a series of allegations...
all three Grand Tours in the same calendar year, but Eddy Merckx, BernardHinault and Chris Froome have won all three in succession (thus holding all...
such as Jacques Anquetil (1963–1965), Lucien Van Impe (1974–1976), BernardHinault (1975–1983), Laurent Fignon (1982–1988), and Greg LeMond (1981–1984)...
did not wear the yellow jersey that passed to him when his rival, BernardHinault, retired with tendonitis. In 1991 Greg LeMond rode without the jersey...
the general classification: three times by Eddy Merckx, and once by BernardHinault. In 1969, Eddy Merckx won the general classification, the points classification...
his second consecutive Tour, beating former teammate BernardHinault by over 10 minutes. Hinault was pursuing his fifth Tour victory after having sat...
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