Thierry Marie

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Thierry Marie
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Marie at the 1993 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameThierry Marie
NicknameThe Viking
Born (1963-06-25) 25 June 1963 (age 60)
Bénouville, France
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type Time trialist
Professional teams
1985 Renault–Elf
1986–1989 Système U
1990–1992 Castorama
1993 Festina–Lotus
1994–1995 Castorama
1996 Agrigel–La Creuse–Fenioux
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
6 individual stages (1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992)
2 TTT stages (1986, 1989)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1992)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (1986)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (1995)

Thierry Marie (born 25 June 1963) is a French former cyclist. Marie often performed well in prologue stages: he won the Tour de France prologue three times in his career, and because of that he wore the yellow jersey in those three years, for seven days in total. He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1] On stage six of the 1991 Tour de France Marie rode alone for six hours and 234 km to win the stage and set the record for the longest post-war successful breakaway. [2]

Contents

Marie along with Greg LeMond was one of the first cyclists to experiment with aerodynamic improvements. [3]

Major results

1984
1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
5th Tour de Normandie
1985
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Duo Normand (with Charly Mottet)
1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
2nd Grand Prix des Nations
5th GP Ouest–France
6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
7th Grand Prix de Rennes
9th Paris–Tours
9th Critérium des As
10th Paris–Camembert
1986
Tour de France
1st Prologue & Stage 2 (TTT)
Held Jersey yellow.svg after Prologue & Stages 2–3
Held Jersey green.svg after Prologue
Vuelta a España
1st Prologue
Held Jersey yellow.svg after Prologue
1st Stage 2b Volta a Catalunya
3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude
1st Prologue
3rd Paris–Camembert
4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
1987
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour d'Armorique
1st Prologue
1st Duo Normand (with Gérard Rué)
1988
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
1st Duo Normand (with Philippe Bouvatier)
1st Stage 20 Tour de France
1st Stage 2 Subida a Arrate
3rd Overall Tour d'Armorique
1st Stage 3b (ITT)
3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Charly Mottet)
3rd Grand Prix de Denain
8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1989
1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Laurent Fignon)
1st Baden-Baden (with Laurent Fignon)
1st Prologue Paris–Nice
1st Prologue Tour of Belgium
1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de France
2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 2b (ITT)
2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stages 1 & 6a (ITT)
2nd Grand Prix de Denain
2nd Grand Prix de la Libération
4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
9th Overall Three Days of De Panne
1990
1st Paris–Camembert
Tour de France
1st Prologue
Held Jersey yellow.svg & Jersey green.svg after Prologue
3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 7
3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Gérard Rué)
9th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
1991
1st Polynormande
Tour de France
1st Prologue & Stage 6
Held Jersey yellow.svg after Prologue & Stages 6–7
Held Jersey green.svg after Prologue
Held Jersey polkadot.svg after Stage 6
1st Stage 1 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Prologue Paris–Nice
1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre
1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour d'Armorique
2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
2nd Chrono des Herbiers
3rd Tour de Vendée
4th Overall Ronde van Nederland
5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1992
1st Jersey green 2.svg Overall Tour de l'Oise
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
Giro d'Italia
1st Prologue
Held Jersey pink.svg after Prologue & Stage 1
Held Jersey violet.svg after Prologue
1st Stage 18 Tour de France
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
1st Stage 1b (ITT)
3rd Circuit de l'Aulne
3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
7th Trofeo Pantalica
8th Chrono des Herbiers
1993
1st Jersey white.svg Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos
3rd Telekom Grand Prix (with Pascal Lino)
9th Grand Prix de Denain
1994
2nd Chrono des Herbiers
3rd Grand Prix des Nations
4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
6th Overall Three Days of De Panne
6th Overall Tour de l'Oise
6th Telekom Grand Prix (with Thomas Davy
7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
1995
1st MaillotFra.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 2
1st La Côte Picarde
1st Châteauroux Classic
1st Stage 1b (ITT) Route du Sud
4th Overall Tour de l'Oise
4th Telekom Grand Prix (with Laurent Madouas)
5th Paris–Camembert
7th Cholet-Pays de la Loire
1996
2nd Route Adélie
7th Tour de Vendée

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 198519861987198819891990199119921993199419951996
Jersey yellow.svg Vuelta a España DNF 109
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 116 119 127 DNF
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 67 108 87 98 72 121 111 114 DNF 53 94 DNF
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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References

  1. "Thierry Marie Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  2. "The longest day: Thierry Marie's monster Tour de France break - Journal". rouleur.cc. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018.
  3. Fretz, Caley (7 November 2023). "Silly saddles, an incomplete history". Escape Collective. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

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