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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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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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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Stan Ockers (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo winners)
des As 7th Road race, UCI World Road Championships 8th Overall Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 8th Road race, National Road Championships 1951 5th Overall Tour...
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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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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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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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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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5th Milan-San Remo 6th Paris–Roubaix 7th Tour of Flanders 9th Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 10th La Flèche Wallonne 1952 1st Gent–Wevelgem 1st Tour de Hesbaye...
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Tour de Suisse (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo races)
The Tour de Suisse (English: Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and...
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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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International. Disagreements between the organisers of the similar Challenge Desgrange-Colombo led to its demise and a gap in season-long competitions. In 1958...
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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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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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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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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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Fred De Bruyne (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo winners)
Paris-Tours and Milan San Remo. Fred De Bruyne also won the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo competition three years running, from 1956 to 1958. This was...
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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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Briek Schotte (category Challenge Desgrange-Colombo winners)
1947) and Paris–Brussels (1946, 1952). He also won the inaugural Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, a season-long competition to identify the world's best road...
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