Régis Clère Explained

Régis Clère
Full Name:	Régis Clère
Birth Date:	15 August 1956
Birth Place:	Langres, France
Discipline:	Road
Role:	Rider
Proyears1:	1981–1984
Proyears2:	1985
Proyears3:	1986
Proteam3:	Miko–Carlos
Proyears4:	1987–1989
Majorwins:	Grand Tours Tour de France 3 individual stages (1983, 1987) Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (1981)One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1982)

Régis Clère (15 August 1956 - 9 June 2012) was a French professional road bicycle racer.^[1]

Clère was born in Langres. During his career, he won three stages in the Tour de France. He won one of these stages, in the 1987 Tour de France, after he was almost eliminated after finishing outside the time limit in the previous stage, but the Tour de France jury allowed him to continue the race. In 1981, he won two stages of the Vuelta a España, and the French National Road Race Championships the following year. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Clère died, aged 55, in Dijon during a surgical procedure.

Major results

1979

1st Road race, Mediterranean Games

1st Stage 5b (ITT) Tour de l'Avenir

1980

1st Stage 6 (ITT) Tour de l'Avenir

3rd Road race, National Amateur Road Championships

3rd Grand Prix de France

1981 (2 pro wins)

1st Prologue & Stage 15b Vuelta a España

2nd Overall Etoile de Bessèges

3rd Overall Critérium International

2nd GP de Fourmies

8th GP de la Ville de Rennes

10th Overall Paris–Nice

10th Tour du Haut Var

1982

1st Road race, National Road Championships

Combativity award Tour de France

1st Prologue Étoile des Espoirs

2nd GP Ouest-France

1983

1st Stage 11 Tour de France

2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs

3rd

4th Overall Critérium International

7th Trofeo Baracchi

8th Overall Étoile des Espoirs

8th GP Ouest-France

9th Overall Tour Midi-Pyrénées

9th GP de Fourmies

1984

3rd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe

7th Overall Tour de l'Oise

10th GP Ouest-France

1985

7th Overall Tour du Limousin

7th Paris–Tours

1986

3rd Grand Prix de Mauléon-Moulins

7th Le Samyn

1987

1st Overall Tour Midi-Pyrénées

1st Stage 3

1st Stages 16 & 23 Tour de France

1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Galicia

1st Route du Berry

1988

2nd Polynormande

5th Overall Route du Sud

External links

- Official Tour de France results for Régis Clère

Notes and References

Web site: L’ex-coureur cycliste Régis Clère est mort à Dijon - Disparition - France 3 Régions - France 3 . Bourgogne.france3.fr . 2012-04-22 . 2012-06-10.
Web site: Régis Clère Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201501/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cl/regis-clere-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 7 May 2015 . Sports Reference.