Maurice Garin
The chimney sweep from the Aosta Valley who won the first Tour and lost the second.
Maurice-François Garin (3 March 1871 - 19 February 1957) was an Italian-French cyclist who won the first Tour de France in 1903 and was stripped of his 1904 title, along with eight others, for cheating. He was born in Arvier in the French-speaking Aosta Valley of north-west Italy and took French nationality on 21 December 1901. In 1885 the family moved to work near the Belgian border; Garin was a chimney sweep, living in Reims by fifteen, then in Charleroi and from 1889 in Maubeuge. In 1895 he and his brothers François and César opened a cycle shop on the boulevard de Paris in Roubaix.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Maurice-François Garin
- Nickname
- Le petit ramoneur (The Little Chimney-sweep)
- Born
- 3 March 1871
- Birthplace
- Arvier, Aosta Valley, Italy
- Died
- 19 February 1957
- Place of death
- Lens, France
- Weight
- 60 kg / 132 lb
- Discipline
- Road and track
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