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Pascal Jules (22 July 1961, in La Garenne-Colombes – 25 October 1987, in Bernay) was a French professional road bicycle racer.
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Pascal Jules |
Born | La Garenne-Colombes, France | 22 July 1961
Died | 25 October 1987 26) | (aged
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1982–1985 | Renault–Elf |
1986 | Seat–Orbea |
1987 | Caja Rural–Seat |
Major wins | |
1 stage 1984 Tour de France |
Jules was a close friend of Laurent Fignon whom he rode with at Renault–Elf between 1982 and 1985. Jules won one stage in the 1984 Tour de France. With Fignon, Marc Madiot and Greg LeMond, Jules was part of a quartet in that Renault team who were keen to succeed the legendary Bernard Hinault. However, after being thrown back by injury and a fight with team director Cyrille Guimard, he joined Marino Lejarreta's Seat–Orbea team.
He died in 1987 following a car crash in Normandy, after returning from a football match for a charitable association.
In his autobiography entitled Nous étions jeunes et insouciants ("We were young and carefree") Laurent Fignon remembers Pascal Jules by saying: "It was unsaid but there was a pact of kinship between us which was so strong, so inviolable, almost sacred, that it would last as long as life lasted. But some lives don't last that long."
Jules was the father of Justin Jules, who became a professional cyclist himself.[1]
Grand Tour | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | 85 |
Tour de France | 61 | 21 | — | DNF | 114 |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 77 | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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