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- ↑ Aviscom. "Monsieur Roger QUEUGNET" (in French). Avis de décès. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ↑ "Roger Queugnet". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1950". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ↑ "37ème Tour de France 1950". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
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