Alves Barbosa Explained

Alves Barbosa
Fullname:	António da Silva Alves Barbosa^[1]
Birth Date:	24 December 1931
Birth Place:	Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Death Place:	Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Discipline:	Road
Role:	Rider

António da Silva Alves Barbosa (24 December 1931 - 29 September 2018),^[2] ^[3] commonly known as Alves Barbosa, was a Portuguese professional road cyclist. He won the Volta a Portugal in 1951, 1956 and 1958, placing third in 1955, and rode the Tour de France from 1956 until 1958 and again in 1960.^[4] ^[5] He also won a stage of the 1961 Vuelta a España.

Major results

1950

1st Junior National Road Race Championships

1951

1st Overall Volta a Portugal

1st Prologue & Stages 2 & 3

1952

1st Prova Ciclística 9 de Julho

1st Stage 9 Tour du Maroc

1954

1st National Road Race Championships

1955

1st Prova Ciclística 9 de Julho

1st Stages 4, 7, 8b, 9, 10 & 12a Volta a Portugal

1956

1st National Road Race Championships

1st Overall Volta a Portugal

1st Stages 2a, 4a, 7, 8b, 9b, 10b, 12, 14 & 15

8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

10th Overall Tour de France

1958

1st Overall Volta a Portugal

1st Stages 1b, 8, 12, 17, 21, 22a & 23

1959

1st Stages 5a, 5b (TTT), 13, 14, 15a, 16a & 19 Volta a Portugal

1960

1st Stages 1 & 6 Tour du Maroc

9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

1961

1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España

8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

1st Stage 4

Notes and References

Web site: António da Silva Alves Barbosa . Museo del Ciclismo . 28 March 2020 . Italian . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200329015248/http://www.museociclismo.it/content/ciclisti/ciclista/991-Antonio-da-Silva-ALVES-BARBOSA/index.html . 29 March 2020.
Web site: Morreu Alves Barbosa – Notícias de Coimbra. www.noticiasdecoimbra.pt. 30 September 2018.
Web site: Morreu Alves Barbosa, primeiro triplo vencedor da Volta a Portugal em bicicleta. RTP, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal -. RTP. 30 September 2018.
Web site: Antonino Dos Santos Baptista . 15 July 2016 . Cycling Archives.
Web site: 47ème Tour de France 1960. Memoire du cyclisme. French. 11 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121063116/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1960.php. 21 January 2012.