Odile Defraye

Personal information

Full name

Odile Defraye

Born

14 July 1888
Belgium

Died

21 August 1965 (aged 77)

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Major wins

1912 Tour de France

Infobox last updated on
23 May 2008

Odile Defraye (real name Odiel Defraeye; 14 July 1888, Rumbeke - 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.

At 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.

Major achievements

1908

Tour of Flanders (Amateur edition)

1910

Winner Championship of Flanders

1911

Belgian National Road Race Championships

1912

Winner Tour of Belgium

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 6

Stage 7

Winner Tour de France

Stage 2

Stage 7

Stage 9

1913

Milan – San Remo

1921

Tour of Belgium

Stage 6

Grand Tour results timeline

	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924
Giro	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE
Stages won	—	—	—	—	—	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour	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	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0	0	—	—	—	0
Vuelta	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	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

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)
DSQ	Disqualified
N/A	Race/classification not held
NR	Not Ranked in this classification

References

^ http://www.veloarchive.com/races/tour/1912.php Veloarchive.com 1912 Tour de France
^ http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/palmares/defraye_odiel.php Memoire du cyclisme

Winners of the general classification in the Tour de France

1903–1919	1903 Maurice Garin 1904 Henri Cornet 1905 Louis Trousselier 1906 René Pottier 1907–1908 Lucien Petit-Breton 1909 François Faber 1910 Octave Lapize 1911 Gustave Garrigou 1912 Odile Defraye 1913–14 Philippe Thys 1915–18 World War I 1919 Firmin Lambot

1920–1939	1920 Philippe Thys 1921 Léon Scieur 1922 Firmin Lambot 1923 Henri Pélissier 1924–25 Ottavio Bottecchia 1926 Lucien Buysse 1927–28 Nicolas Frantz 1929 Maurice De Waele 1930 André Leducq 1931 Antonin Magne 1932 André Leducq 1933 Georges Speicher 1934 Antonin Magne 1935 Romain Maes 1936 Sylvère Maes 1937 Roger Lapébie 1938 Gino Bartali 1939 Sylvère Maes

1940–1959	1940–46 World War II 1947 Jean Robic 1948 Gino Bartali 1949 Fausto Coppi 1950 Ferdinand Kübler 1951 Hugo Koblet 1952 Fausto Coppi 1953–55 Louison Bobet 1956 Roger Walkowiak 1957 Jacques Anquetil 1958 Charly Gaul 1959 Federico Bahamontes

1960–1979	1960 Gastone Nencini 1961–64 Jacques Anquetil 1965 Felice Gimondi 1966 Lucien Aimar 1967 Roger Pingeon 1968 Jan Janssen 1969–72 Eddy Merckx 1973 Luis Ocaña 1974 Eddy Merckx 1975 Bernard Thévenet 1976 Lucien Van Impe 1977 Bernard Thévenet 1978–79 Bernard Hinault

1980–1999	1980 Joop Zoetemelk 1981–82 Bernard Hinault 1983–84 Laurent Fignon 1985 Bernard Hinault 1986 Greg LeMond 1987 Stephen Roche 1988 Pedro Delgado 1989–90 Greg LeMond 1991–95 Miguel Indurain 1996 Bjarne Riis 1997 Jan Ullrich 1998 Marco Pantani 1999–... Lance Armstrong

2000–present	...–2005 Lance Armstrong 2006 Óscar Pereiro 2007 Alberto Contador 2008 Carlos Sastre 2009–10 Alberto Contador 2011 Cadel Evans

Persondata
Name	Defraye, Odile
Alternative names
Short description	cyclist
Date of birth	1888-07-14
Place of birth	Rumbeke
Date of death	1965-08-21
Place of death