Michel Vermeulin

Michel Hervé Vermeulin ( born September 6, 1934 in Paris ) is a French former racing cyclist and Olympic champion.

1956 Michel started Vermeulin in three disciplines at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. In the team competition, the road drivers - the times of the best three riders in the road race a nation were added - he won gold, together with Armand and Maurice Geyre Moucheraud. In the individual road race he finished in twelfth place, and in the team pursuit, he won silver, with Jean -Claude Lecante, Jean Graczyk and René Bianchi.

1958 Vermeulin was professional, but remained in the wake of the really big successes. In 1959, he won jointly with a team that consisted of Jacques Anquetil, André Darrigade, Seamus Elliott and Jean Graczyk, the Trofeo Longines in Italy. In 1960 he won the GP Fourmies. Three times he competed in the Tour de France; In 1959, he wore the yellow jersey for three days and was 20th overall. In 1966 he ended his cycling career.

Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics Grand Prix de Fourmies 1959 Tour de France General classification in the Tour de France Ragnar Malm Axel Persson Fernand Canteloube Achille Souchard Armand Blanchonnet Georges Wambst Henry Hansen (cyclist) Leo Nielsen Giuseppe Olmo Attilio Pavesi Guglielmo Segato Robert Charpentier Lode Wouters Lucien Victor Evert Dolman Gerben Karstens Jan Pieterse Bart Zoet Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels Joop Zoetemelk Aavo Pikkuus Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Uwe Ampler Mario Kummer Maik Landsmann Jan Schur Bernd Dittert Christian Meyer (cyclist) Uwe Peschel Michael Rich (cyclist)
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