24 April 1976(1976-04-24) (aged 72) Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, France
Team information
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Professional team
1926–1936
Dilecta–Wolber
Major wins
2nd place 1931 Road World Championships
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing France
World Championships
1931 Copenhagen
Elite Men's Road Race
Ferdinand Le Drogo (10 October 1903 – 24 April 1976) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his silver medal in the Elite race of the 1931 Road World Championships. Ferdinand Le Drogo was the older brother of cyclist Paul Le Drogo.
In the 1927 Tour de France, Le Drogo took part in the Dilecta-Wolber team, which won the first stage, led by Francis Pélissier, who was the first leader of the general classification.[1]
Le Drogo won the fifth stage. In the sixth stage, Francis Pélissier abandoned sick. Ferdinand Le Drogo, who was second in the general classification, became the new leader.[2]
In the seventh stage, while Le Drogo was in the yellow jersey, the Tour passed in the region where he was born. His supporters cheered for Le Drogo, and he got excited and sped away from his teammates. That cost him too much energy,[3] and he lost 20 minutes in that stage to the J.B. Louvet team, so the lead was transferred to Hector Martin, from the J.B. Louvet team.[2] Le Drogo would never lead the Tour de France again.
^Tom James (15 August 2003). "1927: Alcyon deliver victory". VeloArchive. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
^ abMcGann, Bill; Mcgann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour De France Volume 1:1903-1964. Dog Ear Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
^"1927: Nicolas Frantz legt in de cols de basis voor zijn Tourzege" (in Dutch). Tourdefrance.nl. 19 March 2003. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
and 19 Related for: Ferdinand Le Drogo information
FerdinandLeDrogo (10 October 1903 – 24 April 1976) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his silver medal in the Elite race...
Crusade Saint Drogo (1105–c. 1185), French hermit Piero Drogo, Italian coachbuilder and car driver Ferrari 250 GT DrogoFerdinandLeDrogo, French road...
Buckingham, Virginia (d. 1942, killed in action in the Solomon Islands) FerdinandLeDrogo, French professional road bicycle racer; in Pontivy, Brittany, France...
[French Championship - Amateurs: Ranking]. Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 30 January 2023. Lafaye, Quentin (30 June 2018). "Championnat...
Archived from the original on 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2008-07-15. "A-Z of Le Tour". BBC. 2008-06-28. Retrieved 2008-07-15. Guinness, Rupert (2008-07-15)...
speeding. The Belgian policeman who came to his car said, "Vous avez gagné le Tour des Flandres en nonante-deux" ("You won the Tour of Flanders in '92")...
Tour de France results". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29. "Et aussi les blues bien barres". l'Humanite. Archived from the original on September 29...
the stage, but they finished 7 minutes ahead of the classification leader LeMond, which meant that Leblanc was the new leader. The next day, Leblanc finished...
action in Italy. NART also entered a long-tailed P2, rebodied by Piero Drogo and driven by last year's winner Masten Gregory with Bob Bondurant. There...
(born 1889). 1 April – Roger Rivière, cyclist (born 1936). 24 April – FerdinandLeDrogo, cyclist (born 1903). 31 May – Jacques Monod, biologist, awarded Nobel...
fancied and get into conversation with whomever he met. He became a member of Les Amis de Paris–Roubaix, enthusiasts and workers for the spring classic. It...
Global Information
