Odile Defraye (pronounced [ɔ.dil dɛ.fʁɛj]; Dutch: Odiel Defraeye; 14 July 1888 – 21 August 1965) was a Belgian road racing cyclist who won three stages and the overall title of the 1912 Tour de France, which was the last tour decided by a points system instead of overall best time.[1] He was the first Belgian to win the Tour and was only invited to join Alcyon's all-French team at a late stage for publicity purposes.

Odile Defraye
Personal information
Full nameOdile Defraye
Born(1888-07-14)14 July 1888
Rumbeke, West Flanders, Belgium
Died21 August 1965(1965-08-21) (aged 77)
Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1912)
Mountains classification (1912)
3 individual stages (1912)

Stage races

Tour of Belgium (1912)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1911)
Milan–San Remo (1913)
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (1910)

In the 1913 Tour de France, Defraye held the overall lead after stages 2 through 5 before relinquishing the lead on the Tourmalet to Stage 6 and eventual winner Philippe Thys. He participated in six tours between 1909 and 1924 but his victory Tour was the only one that he completed.[2]

Other major wins include the 1913 Milan–San Remo, a one-day classic, and four stages and the overall for the 1912 Tour of Belgium.

Career achievements

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Major results

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1908
1st Tour of Flanders (Amateur edition)
1910
1st   Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
1911
1st   National Road Championships - Road race
1912
  Winner Tour de France
1st Stages 2, 7 & 9
  Winner Tour of Belgium
1st Stages 2, 3, 6 & 7
3rd l'Étoile Carolorégienne
5th Paris-Roubaix
1913
1st Milan–San Remo
1914
Tour of Belgium
Stage 6
1921
Tour of Belgium
Stage 6

Grand Tour results timeline

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1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Giro d'Italia DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE N/A N/A N/A N/A DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE
Stages won
Tour de France DNF-2 DNE DNE 1 DNF-6 DNF-10 N/A N/A N/A N/A DNF-4 DNF-3 DNE DNE DNE DNF-6
Stages won 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
Vuelta a España N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Stages won
Legend
1 Winner
2–3 Top three-finish
4–10 Top ten-finish
11– Other finish
DNE Did not enter
DNF-x Did not finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-x Did not start (not started on stage x)
HD Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x)
DSQ Disqualified
N/A Race/classification not held
NR Not ranked in this classification

References

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