Former Tour de France champion Roger Pingeon dies of heart attack

ByReuters

Updated 19/03/2017 at 14:18 GMT

PARIS, March 19 (Reuters) - Former Tour de France champion Roger Pingeon has died of a heart attack at the age of 76, the mayor of the French town where he was living said on Sunday.

Robert Pingeon - Tour de France 1967

Image credit: AFP

"He was taken by a heart attack at 4 am this morning," Beaupont mayor Georges Gouly told French news agency AFP.

30/07/2018 at 09:40

Frenchman Pingeon won the 1967 Tour and came second to Belgian great Eddy Merckx in 1969, the year he won the Vuelta (Tour of Spain).

28/07/2017 at 12:14

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