Georges Landrieux
| Team information | |
|---|---|
| Discipline |
|
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1905–1906 | Individual |
| 1907 | Alcyon–Dunlop |
| 1908–1909 | Individual |
| Major wins | |
| Paris–Le Havre (1908) | |
Georges Landrieux, also written as Georges Landrieu, was a French track and road racing cyclist who competed in professional road races during the 1900s.
Biography
Landrieux rode as an independent rider in 1905 and 1906 before joining Alcyon–Dunlop for the 1907 season. He returned to riding as an individual for the 1908 and 1909 seasons.[1] He had multiple podium finishes in prominent cycle races of his era, in the inaugural Paris–Reims (1906), Paris–Beaugency (1909) and winning 1908 Paris–Le Havre.[2]
As a track cyclist he was on the podium of the first ever European six-day racing event in 1906. He finished third alongside Antony Wattelier in the six-day race in Toulouse with a total distance of 3211.330 km.[3][4]
He competed in the 1907 Tour de France, where he had a top-10 finish in the stage 1 and stage 6. In cycling classics he also placed fifth in Paris–Brussels and fifth in Paris–Tours during the same season.[5]
General classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tour de France |
— | — | DNF (DNS stage 10) | |
| Major one-day race results | ||||
| Race | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | |
| Paris–Caen | 6 | 4 | — | |
| Paris–Brussels | Not held | — | 5 | |
| Paris–Tours | Not held | — | 5 | |
Major results
- 1905
- 3rd Paris–Reims
- 6th Paris–Caen
- 1906
- 3rd six-day race in Toulouse
- 4th Paris–Caen
- 4th Paris–Honfleur
- 1907
- 5th Paris–Brussels
- 5th Paris–Tours
- 13th Paris–Dieppe
- 1908
- 1st Paris–Le Havre
- 11th Paris–Lille
- 1909
- 3rd Paris–Beaugency
References
- ↑ "Georges Landrieux". CyclingRanking. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
- ↑ "L'Intransigeant". Gallica. 14 June 1906 – via Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- ↑ This six-day race took place on an outdoor track and is therefore not recognized as an "official" six-day race in cycling history. The Six Days of Berlin held later that year in an indoor venue is considered the first official European six-day race.
- ↑ "Six Jours de Toulouse". Mémoire du cyclisme (in French). Retrieved 4 August 2026 – via Wikiwix Archive.
- ↑ McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol. The Story of the Tour De France, Volume 1. Dog Ear Publishing.