The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was a season-long road bicycle racing competition between 1948 and 1958. There were two classifications, one for individual...
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The 1956 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the ninth edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1955 edition...
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The 1952 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the fifth edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1951 edition...
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The 1948 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the first edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included nine races - seven one-day races and two stage...
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The 1953 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the sixth edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1952 edition...
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The 1951 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the fourth edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1950...
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The 1949 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the second edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included ten races: all nine races from the 1948 edition...
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The 1954 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the seventh edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1953...
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The 1950 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the third edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included ten races: all the races form the 1949 edition...
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The 1958 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the eleventh and final edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form...
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The 1957 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the tenth edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1956 edition...
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The 1955 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the eighth edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1954...
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2016. Cycling's first season-long classification system was the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, named after the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia directors at...
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Tour de France (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
could afford to indulge his whims. The new newspaper appointed Henri Desgrange as the editor. He was a prominent cyclist and owner with Victor Goddet...
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Liège–Bastogne–Liège (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
stars of European cycling. In 1951 the race was added to the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, the competition that combined cycling's greatest races at the...
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Giro di Lombardia (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
The Giro di Lombardia (English: Tour of Lombardy), officially Il Lombardia, is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five...
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Vuelta a España (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
was marked by the rise of Colombian cycling, which presented a strong challenge particularly in the mountain stages. Names such as Lucho Herrera (winner...
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Tour of Flanders (men's race) (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
the Tour of Flanders was included in the first running of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, cycling's first international season-long competition, which...
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Milan–San Remo (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
Gewiss–Ballan 1995 France Laurent Jalabert ONCE 1996 Italy Gabriele Colombo Gewiss Playbus 1997 Germany Erik Zabel Team Telekom 1998 Germany Erik...
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Fausto Coppi (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo winners)
1994: Giorgio Furlan (ITA) 1995: Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 1996: Gabriele Colombo (ITA) 1997: Erik Zabel (GER) 1998: Erik Zabel (GER) 1999: Andrei Tchmil (BEL)...
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race's highest point.[citation needed] Challenge Desgrange-Colombo The first edition of L'Auto described Henri Desgrange as "a former advocate at the Court...
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La Flèche Wallonne (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
La Flèche Wallonne (pronounced [la flɛʃ walɔn], French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia...
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1953 Tour de Suisse (category 1953 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo)
The 1953 Tour de Suisse was the 17th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 17 June to 27 June 1953. The race started and finished...
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Óscar Freire (3x gold, 1x bronze), Eddy Merckx, Peter Sagan Challenge Desgrange-Colombo (1948-1958): Ferdinand Kübler, Fred De Bruyne (3) Super Prestige...
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1953 Tour de France (category 1953 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo)
was won by Wout Wagtmans. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass a point by his final...
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1955 Tour de France (category 1955 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo)
super-combativity award. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass a point by his final...
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1954 Tour de Suisse (category 1954 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo)
The 1954 Tour de Suisse was the 18th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 7 August to 14 August 1954. The race started and finished...
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1949 Tour de Suisse (category 1949 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo)
The 1949 Tour de Suisse was the 13th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 30 July to 6 August 1949. The race started and finished...
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Brussels Cycling Classic (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
The Brussels Cycling Classic (known until June 2013 as Paris–Brussels) is a semi classic European bicycle race, one of the oldest races on the international...
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1958 Vuelta a España (category 1958 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo)
The 13th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 30 April to 15 May 1958. It...
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