Octave Lapize
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| Full name | Octave Lapize | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Tatave Le Frisé (The Curly Haired-One) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 October 1887 Paris, France | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 July 1917 (aged 29) Toul, France | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Octave Lapize (pronounced [ɔktav lapiz]; 24 October 1887 – 14 July 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.
Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.