Vin Denson is a former professional racing cyclist who rode the Tour de France, won a stage of the Giro d'Italia and won the Tour of Luxembourg in the 1960s. He was a team-mate of Rik van Looy and of Jacques Anquetil and, in the Tour de France, of Tom Simpson. Along with Robert Millar and Mark Cavendish, he is the only other British rider to have won a stage of the Giro, and is still the only Englishman to do so before finishing 40th overall.

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  • 1935-11-24 (xsd:date)
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  • "Vin", "Vic"
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  • 1935-11-24 (xsd:date)
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  • "Vin", "Vic"
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  • Vin Denson is a former professional racing cyclist who rode the Tour de France, won a stage of the Giro d'Italia and won the Tour of Luxembourg in the 1960s. He was a team-mate of Rik van Looy and of Jacques Anquetil and, in the Tour de France, of Tom Simpson. Along with Robert Millar and Mark Cavendish, he is the only other British rider to have won a stage of the Giro, and is still the only Englishman to do so before finishing 40th overall.
  • Vincent Denson va ser un ciclista anglès, que fou professional entre 1959 i 1969. El seu principal èxit esportiu fou la victòria en una etapa del Giro d'Itàlia de 1966 i la Volta a Luxemburg de 1965.
  • Vincent "Vin" Denson is een voormalig Brits wielrenner. Denson stond in continentaal Europa bekend als "Vic", omdat Vin in het Frans "wijn" betekent.
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  • Chester Road Club
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  • 1952 (xsd:integer)
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  • Road
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  • 1962 - GP Frimatic 1962 - eight-day Vuelta Bidasoa, in Spain 1962 - 1 stage of the Circuit d'Aquitaine 1962 - sixth in the Grand Prix des Nations 196x ? - Tour of Luxembourg 1966 - Stage 7 of the Giro d'Italia
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  • "Vin", "Vic"
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  • Temple Cycles British Team in the Tour de France UVC Aube club, sponsored by Frimatic Pelforth-Sauvage Lejeune Solo team Ford-France Bic British Team in the Tour de France Kelvinator Bantel
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  • 1961 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 ? 1967 1968 1969 ?
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  • Denson said of a day spent chasing Gianni Motta through Naples:
    "They were chucking rubbish at us from balconies: tomatoes, spaghetti, old newspapers, anything. I was covered with the contents of the dustbins when I walked into the hotel at Naples. The bastards!"
  • It can be really disastrous for a pro in a big team to miss the Tour, for it means no after-Tour criteriums, where a lot of money is made. Instead, he is a forgotten man, his only hope the end-of-season classics and semi-classics, like the Nations, Paris-Tours, Tour of Lombardy, the GP Fourmies and others, but what a fight it is to do a ride in these hotly-disputed rat-races!
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  • Vin Denson
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  • Rider
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  • November 2008
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  • 25
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  • Vin Denson is a former professional racing cyclist who rode the Tour de France, won a stage of the Giro d'Italia and won the Tour of Luxembourg in the 1960s. He was a team-mate of Rik van Looy and of Jacques Anquetil and, in the Tour de France, of Tom Simpson. Along with Robert Millar and Mark Cavendish, he is the only other British rider to have won a stage of the Giro, and is still the only Englishman to do so before finishing 40th overall.
  • Vincent Denson va ser un ciclista anglès, que fou professional entre 1959 i 1969. El seu principal èxit esportiu fou la victòria en una etapa del Giro d'Itàlia de 1966 i la Volta a Luxemburg de 1965.
  • Vincent "Vin" Denson is een voormalig Brits wielrenner. Denson stond in continentaal Europa bekend als "Vic", omdat Vin in het Frans "wijn" betekent.
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  • Vin Denson
  • Vincent Denson
  • Vin Denson
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  • Vin Denson
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