Christian Raymond
Christian Raymond ( born December 24, 1943 in Avrillé, France ) is a French former racing driver who was active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sports career
Amateur
Raymond was active as a road cyclist first in amateur and emerged from 1962 in the result lists major road race on. When criterion miramas (La Touloubre ) in southern France, he won his first significant victory. His most successful year as an amateur celebrated the 1.78 m wide Raymond 1964, when he won, among others, the Route de France, the Tour de France amateur. In the road world championships 1964 he finished fourth, also it was used at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he was the street single competition was evaluated assets 107 95.
Driver
1965 Raymond moved in the professional paddock, and received his first professional contract with the French cycling team Peugeot -BP - Michelin, where the German Winfried Bölke was under contract. 1966 and 1967 was as much Eddy Merckx to his colleagues. One of his first professional victory won Raymond 1966 Criterion French Massiac. In the same year he also played his first Tour de France, where he was among 82 evaluated 54. Until 1974 he was also placed in the Tour seven times, he achieved the best result in 1971 when 32 his only Tour stage he won in 1970. This year he stood as a third party even for the only time on the podium of the French road championships. Twice Raymond arrived at the road world championships of the professionals in the classification: 1969 53 and 1970 23, 1975 Raymond drove his last professional race, a year before he was changed by the French Peugeot cycling team Gan - Mercier.
In the 1970s, Raymon also launched in track racing, in which he reached in 1973 a third place at the World Cup Stayers.