Alphonse Joseph Alexis Baugé (2 August 1873 in Tours – 23 October 1938 in Paris) was a French cyclist and cycling team manager.[1]
Biography
A great bicycle enthusiast, he began his cycling career by winning the French Amateur Stayer Championships in Paris in 1896. In the same year he won a match against Richard Palmer at the Vélodrome d'Hiver.[2] In June 1897 he lost a match against John William Stocks at the Crystal Palace in London.[3] In 1898 he came second at the French Championship and third in 1899 and 1900. In 1903 he covered the Tour de France as a journalist for Le Vélo.
In 1921, he directed the La Sportive cycling team. Nicknamed "le Maréchal", he imposed his conditions on the riders and made them sign two-year contracts.[4]
Baugé died in Paris on 23 October 1938 at the age of 65.
Le Tour de France, 1907: Lettres à Mon Directeur. Librairie de L'Auto, Paris 1908, 123 pp. (online version)
Le secret de "Choppy": mėthode d'entraînement. Librairie de L'Auto, Paris 1908.
Messieurs les coureurs, 1925
References
^The Tour de France 1903 2002: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values, ed. Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare, Frank Cass: 2003, p. 77 ISBN0714653624
