Apo Lazaridès

Apo Lazaridès
Personal information
Full name Jean-Apôtre Lazaridès
Born (1925-10-16)16 October 1925
Marles-les-Mines, France
Died 30 October 1998(1998-10-30) (aged 73)
Cannes, France
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber
Major wins
Silver medal 1948 World Championship

Apo Lazaridès (16 October 1925 – 30 October 1998) was a French champion cyclist.

Born Jean-Apôtre Lazaridès in Marles-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais of Greek ancestries (became French in 1929), he cycled in the mountains as a boy. During the German occupation, Lazaridès used his cycling to transport supplies to the French Resistance.

Nicknamed "Apo", a short version of his middle name, he competed in races throughout France during the war. In 1946 Lazaridès finished fifth in the "Ronde de France", then won the most important competition of the year, the "La Course du Tour de France", a 1316 km race from Monaco to Paris. This was organised by the group who took charge of organisation of the Tour de France.

In the 1947 Tour, Lazaridès finished tenth[1] but captured second overall in the mountain class. In 1948, he finished ninth and went on to take second place in the world championship. He retired in 1955 and moved to Cannes, where he was president of the Étoile Sportive de Cannes."

Lazaridès died in Cannes in 1998 and was buried there in the Cimetière du Grand Jas.

Major results

1943
Boucles de Sospel
1946
Marseille-Nice
La Course du Tour de France
1947
Tour de France:
10th place overall classification
1948
Silver medal World Championships
1949
Polymultipliée
Tour de France:
9th place overall classification

References

  1. ↑ "34ème Tour de France 1947" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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