- François Faber
Infobox Cyclist
ridername = François Faber
fullname = François Faber
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dateofbirth = birth date|1887|01|26
dateofdeath = death date and age|1915|05|09|1887|01|26
country = LUX
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discipline = Road
role = Rider
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amateuryears =
proyears = 1906-1907 1908 1909-1911 1912 1913 1913-1914
proteams = Labor Peugeot Alcyon Automoto Saphir cycles Peugeot
majorwins = 1909 Tour de France Paris-Brussels Paris-Tours (2x) Paris-Roubaix
updated =May 23 ,2008 François Faber (
26 January 1887 –9 May 1915 ) was aLuxembourg ian cyclist. He was born inFrance , but because his father was a Luxembourger, he was able to receive Luxembourg nationality.In 1906 he participated in the
Tour de France for the first time. He didn't finish. The next year, he was 7th and in 1908 he took second place and won two stages. In 1909 he dominated the Tour. He won five consecutive stages; a record that has been unbroken for almost a century.He won 19 Tour de France stages,
Paris-Brussels ,Bordeaux-Paris ,Sedan-Brussels ,Paris-Tours (twice),Paris-Roubaix and theGiro di Lombardia .When the First World War broke out Faber joined the
French Foreign Legion . On9 May 1915 atCarency nearArras he received a telegram saying his wife had given birth to a daughter. One story says that, cheering, he jumped out of the trench and was killed by a German bullet. Another, more commonly accepted, is that he was shot while carrying an injured colleague back from no-man's land during fighting betweenCarency andMont-Saint-Éloi during theSecond Battle of Artois .The
GP François Faber , a small race in Luxembourg, is named after him. There is also a plaque in his memory in the church ofNotre Dame de Lorette in the French national war cemetery nearArras .Palmarès
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Giro di Lombardia ;1909:Paris-Tours :Tour de France::: Winner overall classification::Winner stages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10:Sedan-Brussels :Paris-Brussels ;1910:Paris-Tours :Tour de France:::Winner stages 2, 4 and 7::2nd place overall classification;1911:Tour de France:::Winner stages 3 and 6:Bordeaux-Paris ;1913:Paris-Roubaix :Stage 2Tour of Belgium :Tour de France:::Winner stages 10 and 13;1914:Tour de France:::Winner stages 13 and 14External links
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