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{{Short description|French cyclist (1934–1987)}}
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{{Infobox cyclist
| name          = Jacques Anquetil
| image         = Jacques Anquetil 1966.jpg
| caption       = Anquetil at the [[1966 Giro d'Italia]]
| fullname      = Jacques Anquetil  
| nickname      = Monsieur Chrono<br />Maître Jacques
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=yes|1934|1|8}}
| birth_place   = [[Mont-Saint-Aignan]], France
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|11|18|1934|1|8}}
| death_place   = [[Rouen]], France
| height        = {{height|m=1.76}}<ref name="PCS"/>
| weight        = {{convert|70|kg|lb stlb|0|abbr=on}}<ref name="PCS">{{cite web
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| discipline    = Road and track
| role          = Rider
| ridertype     = [[Time trialist]]<br />[[All-rounder (cycling)|All-rounder]]
| amateuryears1 = 1950–1952
| amateurteam1  = AC Sottevillais
| proyears1     = 1953–1955
| proteam1      = La Perle
| proyears2     = 1956–1961
| proteam2      = {{UCI team code|Helyett|1956}}
| proyears3     = 1962–1964
| proteam3      = {{UCI team code|Saint-Raphaël|1961}}
| proyears4     = 1965–1966
| proteam4      = {{UCI team code|Ford France|1965}}
| proyears5     = 1967–1969
| proteam5      = {{UCI team code|Bic|1967}}
| majorwins     = '''[[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]]'''
:'''[[Tour de France]]'''
::'''[[General classification in the Tour de France|General classification]]'''<br>([[1957 Tour de France|1957]], [[1961 Tour de France|1961]], [[1962 Tour de France|1962]], [[1963 Tour de France|1963]], [[1964 Tour de France|1964]])
::16 individual stages<br>([[1957 Tour de France|1957]], [[1961 Tour de France|1961]], [[1962 Tour de France|1962]], [[1963 Tour de France|1963]], [[1964 Tour de France|1964]])
::1 TTT stage ([[1957 Tour de France|1957]])
:'''[[Giro d'Italia]]'''
::'''[[General classification in the Giro d'Italia|General classification]]''' ([[1960 Giro d'Italia|1960]], [[1964 Giro d'Italia|1964]])
::6 individual stages ([[1959 Giro d'Italia|1959]], [[1960 Giro d'Italia|1960]], [[1961 Giro d'Italia|1961]], [[1964 Giro d'Italia|1964]])
:'''[[Vuelta a España]]'''
::'''[[General classification in the Vuelta a España|General classification]]''' ([[1963 Vuelta a España|1963]])
::1 individual stage ([[1963 Vuelta a España|1963]])
'''[[Race stage|Stage races]]'''
:[[Paris–Nice]] ([[1957 Paris–Nice|1957]], [[1961 Paris–Nice|1961]], [[1963 Paris–Nice|1963]], [[1965 Paris–Nice|1965]], [[1966 Paris–Nice|1966]])
:[[Critérium du Dauphiné|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]] ([[1963 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|1963]], [[1965 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|1965]])
:[[Volta a Catalunya]] ([[1967 Volta a Catalunya|1967]])
:[[Tour of the Basque Country]] ([[1969 Tour of the Basque Country|1969]])
'''[[Classic cycle races|One-day races and Classics]]'''
:[[Liège–Bastogne–Liège]] ([[1966 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|1966]])
:[[Gent–Wevelgem]] ([[1964 Gent–Wevelgem|1964]])
'''Other'''
:[[Hour record]] (1956)
:[[Super Prestige Pernod International]] (1961, 1963, 1965, 1966)
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry|{{FRA}}}}
{{MedalSport|Men's [[road bicycle racing]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki]]|[[Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Team time trial]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Road World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|1966 Nürburgring]]|[[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]]}}
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Track cycling|track bicycle racing]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1956 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1956 Copenhagen]]|Individual Pursuit}}
}}

'''Jacques Anquetil''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒak ɑ̃k.til|pron}}; 8 January 1934&nbsp;– 18 November 1987) was a French [[road racing cyclist]] and the first cyclist to win the  [[Tour de France]] five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/jacques-anquetil-1.html |title=Jacques Anquetil Olympic Results |access-date=28 December 2012 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214112523/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/jacques-anquetil-1.html |archive-date=14 December 2012 }}</ref>

He stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the yellow jersey on day one and wear it all through the tour, a tall order with two previous winners in the field—[[Charly Gaul]] and [[Federico Bahamontes]]—but he did it.{{efn|Anquetil took the yellow jersey after the second half-stage (time trial) of the first day, Darrigade having won the first half-stage.}} His victories in stage races such as the Tour were built on an exceptional ability to ride alone against the clock in [[individual time trial]] stages, which lent him the name '''"Monsieur Chrono"'''.

He won eight Grand Tours in his career, which was a record when he retired and was surpassed only by [[Eddy Merckx]] and [[Bernard Hinault]].

== Early life ==
Anquetil was born on 8 January 1934 in a clinic in [[Mont-Saint-Aignan]], a suburb of [[Rouen]] in [[Normandy]] situated next to [[Bois-Guillaume]], where his parents had a house at the time.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=27}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=4}} His father Ernest was the grandson of a Prussian soldier called Ernst, who died in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] after having an affair with Melanie Grouh, Ernest's grandmother. Melanie later married Frédéric Anquetil, who adopted her son Ernest Victor, Jacques' grandfather, who would later die in [[World War I]], leaving Jacques' father Ernest as the head of the family at the age of 11. On 25 May 1929, Ernest married Jacques' mother Marie, who had been orphaned since the age of 2 and been raised by nuns in an orphanage.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=20-22}} Jacques had a younger brother, Philippe.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=4}}{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=30}}

Anquetil received his first bike from his father at the age of 4.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=28}} When Jacques was seven, his father Ernest returned from his service in [[World War II]] and, unable to find building work except for the German occupying forces, moved with the family to Le Bourguet close to [[Quincampoix]] to become a strawberry farmer. It was here that the young Anquetil attended school, receiving good grades, particularly in mathematics. Ernest Anquetil often became violent after excess alcohol consumption, and Jacques' mother eventually moved into an apartment in [[Paris]], leaving her sons with their father.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=5-7}} As his second bike grew too small for him, Anquetil needed a new one at the age of 11. With his father being unable to afford it, Jacques argued successfully to allow him to replace one of the workers on the strawberry fields, earning him the necessary money to buy a [[Stella (bicycle company)|Stella]] bicycle on his own.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=34}} At the age of 14, he began to attend Technical College in Rouen's southern district of [[Sotteville-lès-Rouen|Sotteville]] to become a metalworker. It was here that he met and befriended Maurice Dieulois, who rode amateur bike races on the weekends and whose father had been president of the local cycling club AC Sottevillais.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=8}} Through him, Anquetil got into bicycle racing, signing up to the club under the tutelage of [[André Boucher]] late in the summer of 1950. Since it was too late to participate in any more races that year, he instead focussed on getting into shape for the coming season. Boucher recognized Anquetil's talent and offered him two bikes, one for training and one for races, as well as free supply of tyres, bike maintenance and a performance bonus.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=44-45}} At the end of 1950, Anquetil gained his diploma and by the end of January 1951 had taken a job in a workshop in Sotteville, for a meager pay of 64 francs an hour. Since his employer would not allow him Thursday evening off, which the club used for training rides, he quit his position at the beginning of March, moving back to working on his father's farm while pursuing a career in cycling.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=9}}{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=47}}

==Amateur career==
Anquetil's first race as an amateur was in [[Le Havre]] on 8 April 1951. While Dieulois won, Anquetil finished in the field. He took his first victory in his fourth race, the Grand Prix Maurice Latour on 3 May of the same year. Over the remaining course of the season, he won a total of eight races,{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=10}} including winning the Normandy [[team time trial]] championships with his teammates in July. Ending the season was his first ever [[individual time trial]], which was also the last race of the season-long ''maillot des jeunes'' competition for local amateur riders. Setting off last as the leader of the competition, four minutes after Dieulois, Anquetil showed reluctance to catch and overtake his friend, but eventually did so, winning both the race and the competition as a whole.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=52-53}}

For his second amateur season in 1952, Anquetil moved up from the junior into the senior ranks.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=11}} The year produced another eleven victories and five more top-three placings. During the regional championship race for Normandy, he was marked the entire race by rival riders from the powerful cycling club from [[Caen]]. {{convert|120|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the finish, frustrated by his opponents' tactics, Anquetil was ready to retire, but Boucher urged him on. Anquetil then pretended by untie his toe-straps, falling back in the group, causing his opponents to assume he would retire. He then attacked from the back of the group, left the competition behind, bridged a five-minute gap to the leading group and won.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=12}}{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=55}} He was also victorious in the Grand Prix de France time trial, winning the event by a significant 12-minute margin. His first ever appearance at a national race came at the qualification event for the [[1952 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]], he came third. Shortly after, he won the French amateur championships in [[Carcassonne]], securing a call-up for the [[France at the 1952 Summer Olympics|French squad at the Helsinki Olympic Games]] later in the year. On 3 August, he lined up for [[Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race|road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics]], but was disappointed to only finish twelfth. He fared better in the [[Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team road race|team race]], taking the bronze medal alongside [[Alfred Tonello]] and [[Claude Rouer]]. Next, he competed in the amateur road race at the [[1952 UCI Road World Championships]] in [[Luxembourg]], which also featured future stars such as [[Charly Gaul]] and [[Rik van Looy]]. The course, being run over a flat terrain, did not suit Anquetil, and he finished in the bunch, being ranked in equal eighth place with all finishers in his group.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=56-57}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=14}}

For his final season as an amateur, Anquetil took a licence as an "independent", a category between amateur and professional, which was abolished in 1966. This allowed him to enter races with young professionals to further test himself.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=17}} After winning the independent championship of Normandy, his first race against professional competition came in August at the three-stage Tour de la Manche. On the first stage, he finished second, 24 seconds behind future World Champion [[Jean Stablinski]]. In the following day's {{convert|38.6|km|mi|abbr=on}} time trial, Anquetil won by almost 2 minutes, taking the lead of the race. On the final stage to [[Cherbourg]], the riders on the rival teams tried to dislodge him, going so far as to force him into crashing into a ditch. Anquetil was then helped by another independent rider, Maurice Pelé, who disapproved of the others' tactics and assisted Anquetil in getting back into the group. Anquetil went on to finish safely in the peloton and won the race overall.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=57-58}} In the amateur category, Anquetil was leading the season-long ''maillot des As'' competition run by the newspaper ''Paris–Normandy''. The last race of the competition was a {{convert|122|km|mi|abbr=on}} time trial on 23 August 1953. Anquetil won the event by a margin of nine minutes over second-placed [[Claude Le Ber]] at an average speed of {{convert|42.05|kph|mph|abbr=on}}, a speed unheard of from an amateur rider. This led journalist Alex Virot from [[Radio Luxembourg]] to joke that "In Normandy there can only be 900 metres in a kilometre!".{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=20}} Following this exploit, Anquetil was invited to race in the Circuit de l'Aulne, the most prestigious [[criterium]] race in France, which that year included [[Tour de France]] winner [[Louison Bobet]]. Anquetil finished in the leading group but during the final sprint was held by the jersey by another, unknown rider, preventing him from victory, which went to Bobet.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=21}}{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=59}}

==Professional career==
===1953: Grand Prix des Nations===
After his success at the Tour de la Manche, Anquetil was approached by several professional teams. [[Francis Pélissier]], a former professional and sporting director of the La Perle team, offered him a contract in order to race in the [[Grand Prix des Nations]] in September.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=19}} It was back then considered the most prestigious time trial event in the world, often described as the "unofficial world championship" for time trialists.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=61}} Anquetil, still a minor, needed consent from his parents to sign the contract, which initially ran for two months from September to October 1953. He was paid 30,000 francs per month.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=19}}{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=62}} The contract with La Perle briefly led to conflict between Anquetil and his coach Boucher, who threatened legal action. The two made up however in time for Boucher to help Anquetil prepare for the race.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=63-64}}
[[File:1932 Le parc des princes v1.jpg|thumb|The old [[Parc des Princes]] in [[Paris]], which in Anquetil's time served as the finish of the [[Grand Prix des Nations]], a [[time trial]] race which Anquetil won a record nine times.]]
The Grand Prix des Nations took place on 27 September over a {{convert|140|km|mi|abbr=on}} distance from [[Versailles]] to the [[Parc des Princes]] in Paris. Anquetil prepared meticulously, sending himself postcards from different places along the route describing the course.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=21-22}} On race day, he started strongly, even though he was held back by a puncture and a bike swap within the first couple of kilometres. He eventually won the time trial by a margin of almost seven minutes ahead of [[Roger Creton]]. Even though still just 19 years of age, he came within 35 seconds of beating the track record set by [[Hugo Koblet]] two years earlier. The victory made Anquetil an instant sensation in the sports press, with the Tour de France director [[Jacques Goddet]] writing an article in ''[[L'Equipe]]'' titled: "When the Child Champion was Born."{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=65}}

Anquetil followed up his victory three weeks later with another in the [[Gran Premio di Lugano|Grand Prix de Lugano]] in Switzerland. Anquetil was then invited to ride the prestigious [[Trofeo Baracchi]], a two-man time trial in Italy. On his way there, Anquetil visited his idol [[Fausto Coppi]], still considered the best cyclist of the era at the time. They both competed in the Trofeo Baracchi, with Coppi winning alongside [[Riccardo Filippi]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=70}} Anquetil and his partner, experienced rider [[Antonin Rolland]], finished second. Rolland commented after the finish: "I was well prepared and in very good form. Nevertheless, Jacques assassinated me and for the last 30 kilometres I could not go through; I was clinging on by the skin of my teeth."{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=25}}

===1954–1956: military service and Hour Record===
The first big challenge in Anquetil's first full season as a professional was the week-long early-season stage race [[1954 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]].{{efn|Run that year as Paris–Côte d'Azur.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=75}}}} Albeit still only 20 years old, he managed to win the time trial stage and finished seventh overall.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=75-76}} Strong results, although without victories, still secured him a spot on the French team for the [[1954 UCI Road World Championships|World Championships held in Solingen]]. {{convert|45|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the finish, Anquetil was part of an elite group at the front of the race, containing Bobet, Coppi, and Gaul. While Anquetil dropped back soon after, Bobet won the world title, but Anquetil finished a credible fifth, ahead of Coppi.{{sfn|Belbin|2017|p=56}} All throughout the season, tensions grew between Anquetil and Pélissier, who felt that his young prodigy did not show enough discipline in terms of diet and constraint with alcohol. When Pélissier decided to follow Hugo Koblet during this year's running of the Grand Prix des Nations, Anquetil was enraged by this perceived loss of trust. Come race day, he beat Koblet comprehensively. At the finish, Anquetil ignored Pélissier and then drove to Pélissier's café outside of Paris and delivered the winner's bouquet to his director's wife.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=31}}{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=78-79}}

Following an eleventh-place finish at [[1954 Paris–Tours|Paris–Tours]], Anquetil had to enroll for compulsory military service, which at the time in France lasted 30 months. He was transferred to the sportsman's battalion at [[Joinville, Haute-Marne|Joinville]] and was given great leeway to train and continue his cycling career in the following years.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=81-82}} At the Trofeo Baracchi, Anquetil this time partnered Bobet, but having had only three hours of sleep prior to the race and arriving late in Italy, the pair finished second, again to Coppi and Filippi.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=32}}

The 1955 season would be the last for the La Perle team, as funds were running low. In the spring, Anquetil finished 14th at [[1955 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]] after breaking a chain during the race, while he was forced to abandon the [[Critérium International|Critérium National]] after a crash.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=35}} He gathered more experience when he placed 15th at the [[1955 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=83}} At the [[French National Road Race Championships]], he supported his teammate [[André Darrigade]] to beat Bobet for the title.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=37}} Towards the end of the season, Anquetil won the national championship in the [[individual pursuit]] on the [[Track cycling|track]], finished sixth in the [[1955 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|world championship road race]], before adding a third straight victory at the Grand Prix des Nations.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=83}}
[[File:Velodromo Maspes-Vigorelli 05.jpg|thumb|The [[Velodromo Vigorelli]] in [[Milan]], where Anquetil set his [[hour record]].]]
Momentum had been building in the press, urging Anquetil, known for his strength in time trials, to attempt to beat Coppi's [[hour record]] for the longest distance covered in an hour, set in November 1942.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=37}} Eventually, Anquetil announced that he would attempt to break the record, set for 22 October 1955 at the [[Velodromo Vigorelli]] in [[Milan]]. Anquetil started his attempt in a very high speed and was soon up on Coppi's split times, but eventually slowed and he grew exhausted towards the end and failed, posting a distance {{convert|600|m|yd|abbr=on}} shorter than Coppi.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=87-88}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=40}} His final race of the season was once again the Trofeo Baracchi, this time teamed with Darrigade, only to again come second to the pairing of Coppi and Filippi.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=41}}

Due to the ongoing [[Algerian War]], every military service included a six-month stint in [[Algeria]], which Anquetil had to begin in the second half of 1956. He therefore decided to make another attempt at the hour record before. Beforehand, he won another national pursuit title, but had to drop out of [[1956 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]] due to a crash. Now riding for the [[Helyett (cycling team)|Helyett team]], he went on to win a stage at the Three Days of Antwerp. Anquetil then made his second attempt at the hour record on 25 June. Having again started too fast, he abandoned the attempt with five minutes to go.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=45-47}} Another attempt was scheduled just four days later. This time not starting too fast and keeping to a rigid schedule, Anquetil finally managed to beat Coppi's distance on the third attempt, breaking the hour record with {{convert|46.159|km|mi|abbr=on}}, {{convert|311|m|yd|abbr=on}} further than Coppi.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=90-91}}

After his record, Anquetil continued the season by taking the silver medal in the individual pursuit at the [[1956 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track Cycling World Championships]]. Another victory at the Grand Prix des Nations followed. Anquetil and Darrigade then went together to Italy to compete for the first time in the [[Giro di Lombardia]], one of cycling's [[monument (cycling)|monument]] classics, a race that Darrigade won. Anquetil was then posted to Algeria and ended his season.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=49-50}}

===1957: first Tour de France victory===
Anquetil was discharged from the army on 1 March 1957.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=93}} His first race back came just one day later, at Genoa–Nice, where he finished second in the sprint to Bobet. The result was impressive, considering that Anquetil had gained {{convert|10|kg|lb|abbr=on}} during his time in the army. It took him one month and {{convert|1,200|km|mi|abbr=on}} of training to get back to his previous weight, before he started [[1957 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]. In the race, he won the mountainous stage 5 time trial, putting him into the overall lead, which he defended until the end.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=102}} In a last-minute decision, Anquetil then again competed at the [[1957 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]] in the individual pursuit, but lost his race against eventual champion [[Roger Rivière]].{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=54-55}}

By now, Anquetil was considered a possible favourite for the [[1957 Tour de France|Tour de France]], the most prestigious cycling race in the world. At this time, the riders in the Tour did not compete in trade teams, as in every other race, but in national teams. The selection for the French team was difficult for its manager [[Marcel Bidot]]. The [[1956 Tour de France|previous year's race]] had been won by a relatively unknown French rider from a regional team, [[Roger Walkowiak]]. This made him an automatic pick for the national team this time around. Meanwhile, three-time Tour winner Bobet, and with him his teammate [[Raphaël Géminiani]], were also expected to be in the selection. Anquetil and Darrigade on the other hand publicly announced they would only ride if both were selected together. The selection was decided in Anquetil's favour when Bobet announced during the [[1957 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]] that he would skip the Tour.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=102-103}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=54-56}}
[[File:AnquetilTour1957 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Anquetil doing a lap of honour in the [[Parc des Princes]] velodrome after winning the [[1957 Tour de France]]]]
At the Tour, Anquetil was the only debutant in the French team. On stage 1, he was involved in a crash, but was safely brought back into the field. Anquetil's first stage win came on stage 3 into his home town of Rouen. On stage 5 into [[Charleroi]], Anquetil escaped with another rider and gained the [[yellow jersey]] of leader in the general classification for the first time in his career. He held the lead for two days and then attacked on stage 9 and won the into [[Thonon-les-Bains]] to reclaim the yellow jersey, gaining 11 minutes on his principal rivals. [[Federico Bahamontes]], another race favourite, retired on the following rest day, due to the intense heat wave affecting the race. On the first high-mountain stage of the race into [[Briançon]], Anquetil finished fourth, less than two minutes behind stage winner [[Gastone Nencini]] and [[Marcel Janssens]], but retained the lead, 11 minutes ahead of Janssens. Following some uneventful stages, Anquetil's rivals took advantage of him riding towards the back of the peloton to attack on stage 14, building a seven-rider lead group, all of which were within the top ten in the general classification. Darrigade fell back and worked with Anquetil to close the gap back down. The following day, Anquetil won the time trial at the [[Montjuïc circuit]] in [[Barcelona]] to extend his overall lead. He lost small amounts of time on stage 18, but bounced back to win the stage 20 time trial to seal his first victory in the Tour de France.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=57-61}} His eventual winning margin over Janssens was almost 15 minutes.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=221-227}} At 23, he was the youngest Tour winner since the end of World War II.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=103-105}}

After the Tour, Anquetil competed in the [[1957 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in Waregem]]. The final part of the race was contested between a six-men group consisting of three French and three Belgian riders. [[Rik van Steenbergen]] won the sprint ahead of Bobet and Darrigade, while Anquetil finished sixth.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=61}}{{sfn|Boelsen|2007|p=74}} He then won the Grand Prix des Nations again, beating [[Ercole Baldini]]. At the [[Six Days of Paris]], he competed with Darrigade and Italian [[Ferdinando Terruzzi]] on the track, winning the event.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=105}}

===1958: ''année terrible''===
In 1958, Anquetil started his season slowly. He won the time trial stage at [[1958 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]] in March, but only finished tenth overall, the same position he achieved at [[1958 Milan–San Remo|Milan–San Remo]] a couple of days later. After finishing twelfth at the Critérium National, he targeted [[1958 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]], a race he felt suited him. Still {{convert|200|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the finish, he launched an attack, creating a 17-rider lead group, which soon broke down to just four due to Anquetil's relentless pace setting. However, the Belgian teams in the peloton never allowed the gap to grow to over four minutes. While Anquetil managed to come back to the lead group after puncturing a tyre with {{convert|13|km|mi|abbr=on}} left to run, the group was eventually caught {{convert|4|km|mi|abbr=on}} before the finish. The failure to win at Roubaix was noted by the public, since it had been the first time that he had started a [[Classic cycle races|classics race]] with the intention of winning. Anquetil bounced back from the disappointment by taking victory at the [[Four Days of Dunkirk]]. In preparation for the [[1958 Tour de France|Tour de France]], Anquetil then finished eighth at the [[French National Road Race Championships|national championships]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=113}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=63-66}}

As defending champion, Anquetil was the French team's number one choice for the Tour de France. However, Bidot could not leave out three-time winner Bobet, which left the team with two captains. Anquetil agreed to this, but insisted that Bobet's close ally Géminiani be left off the squad. Bidot relented and as Bobet did not stand up for Géminiani, their friendship was heavily strained thereafter. Géminiani went to the Tour as the leader of the Centre-Midi regional team and used every opportunity to attack the main French squad.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=66}}{{efn|Géminiani went so far as to bring a donkey to the start of the Tour, declaring to have christened it "Marcel", since it was "just like Bidot - stubborn and stupid."{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=66}}}} After an uneventful start to the race, Géminiani attacked on stage 6 and gained ten minutes on Anquetil. Two days later, during the first time trial of the Tour, Anquetil was dealt another blow when Charly Gaul, usually considered more of a climber than a time trialist, managed to beat Anquetil in his favourite discipline, albeit by just seven seconds. On stage 18, a mountain time trial up [[Mont Ventoux]], Anquetil lost more than four minutes on Gaul. While he had predicted such a result before the Tour started, as the climb suited Gaul more than him, it was still a blow considering the time Anquetil had already lost. Géminiani meanwhile did enough to secure the yellow jersey and gained more time on the following stage, owing to an untimely mechanical issue for Gaul. Going into stage 21 to [[Aix-les-Bains]], Géminiani led the overall standings, Anquetil was third, 7:57 minutes behind, while Gaul was fifth at more than 15 minutes deficit. The stage featured five climbs, on the second of which Gaul attacked in rainy and cold conditions. Anquetil followed and was only two minutes behind Gaul at the foot of the next climb, the [[Col de Porte]]. The weather then got to Anquetil, who had opted to wear a light silk jersey instead of one made of wool. He lost 22 minutes by the end of the stage and developed a chest infection. Géminiani fared little better, losing 15 minutes to Gaul, who would go on to win the Tour after winning the final time trial. Even with his infection, Anquetil still decided to start the following stage in order to help the French team win the [[Team classification in the Tour de France|team classification]], but after he coughed up blood, he was taken to hospital with {{convert|40.6|C|F|abbr=on}} fever and was forced to abandon.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=114-116}}{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=227-235}}

Anquetil took some time to recover from his infection. In what he later described as the lowest point in his career, he even contemplated to retire, but eventually continued his career.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=121}} The illness still hampered his efforts at the [[1958 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in Reims]], where he abandoned. He recovered to win three end-of-the-season time trials, the Grands Prix in Geneva and Lugano, and the Grand Prix des Nations for the sixth time in a row. He then finished twelfth at both [[1958 Paris–Tours|Paris–Tours]] and the [[1958 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]], before ending the road season by coming second at the Trofeo Baracchi. On the track, Anquetil, Darrigade, and Teruzzi then defended their title at the Parix Six-Days to close out the year, the last time the event was held at the [[Vélodrome d'Hiver]].{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=70}} Anquetil's biographer Paul Howard later described 1958 as his ''année terrible'' ["terrible year"].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=123}}

===1959: failed attempt at the Giro–Tour double===
By the beginning of 1959, Roger Rivière had emerged as a serious challenger to Anquetil. Not only had he beaten Anquetil on his way to becoming World Champion in the individual pursuit, he also broke Baldini's hour record and eventually improved it once again, becoming the first man to cover more than {{convert|47|km|mi|abbr=on}} in an hour. Both riders faced each other for the first time on the road at the [[1959 Paris–Nice]].{{efn|That year called Paris–Nice–Rome, ending in [[Rome]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=123}}}} Neither rider won, and Rivière finished higher on the overall classification, but Anquetil's teammate [[Jean Graczyk]] took the victory and Anquetil was faster in the time trial.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=123-124}}
[[File:Jacques Anquetil and Charly Gaul 1959.jpg|thumb|left|[[Charly Gaul]] (''right'') beat Anquetil (''left'') into second place at the [[1959 Giro d'Italia]].]]
For 1959, Anquetil had set himself the target to equal his idol Fausto Coppi by winning the [[1959 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]] and the Tour de France in the same year. Also at the Giro was Gaul, who had won the race previously, [[1956 Giro d'Italia|in 1956]]. Anquetil started the race strongly, taking the race leader's [[General classification in the Giro d'Italia|pink jersey]] after a short time trial on stage 2. He lost his lead to Gaul the following day, at a hilltop finish. Gaul increased his advantage on stage 7 by winning the mountain time trial up [[Mount Vesuvius]], extending his advantage over second-placed Anquetil to 2:19 minutes. Anquetil was able to gain back 22 seconds on Gaul the next day, in another time trial. During stage 12, which featured three ascents of [[Monte Titano]] in [[San Marino]], he managed to distance Gaul, gaining one-and-a-half minutes, reducing his deficit to just 34 seconds. On stage 15, Anquetil escaped with several other riders on a downhill and gained another two-and-a-half minutes on Gaul, taking back the pink jersey. While leading the race, Anquetil then won the stage 19 time trial to [[Susa]]. Riding at an average speed of {{convert|47.713|kph|mph|abbr=on}} (faster than Rivière's hour record speed), Anquetil still managed to gain only 2:01 minutes on Gaul, who had started his effort one-and-a-half minutes ahead of Anquetil, and once the latter passed him, had hung on to limit his losses. After the time trial, Anquetil led Gaul by 3:49 minutes in the overall standings. The decisive stage therefore came on stage 21 to [[Courmayeur]], where Gaul attacked on the [[Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard]] and eventually arrived at the stage finish almost ten minutes ahead of Anquetil to seal overall victory. Anquetil finished the Giro in second place, 6:12 minutes behind Gaul.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=129-130}}{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2011|pp=217-222}}

For the [[1959 Tour de France|Tour de France]], the French national team started with four possible contenders for overall victory: Anquetil, Bobet, Géminiani, and Rivière. While the latter two were riding on the same trade team and got along well, there was little sympathy and cooperation between the riders otherwise. In the event, Bobet retired from what would be his last Tour on top of the [[Col de l'Iseran]], while Géminiani was significantly weaker than the year before and was not a threat for overall victory.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=131}} The French team's main challengers would come from Gaul, Spain's [[Federico Bahamontes]], Italian Ercole Baldini, and [[Henry Anglade]], a Frenchman riding on the Centre/Midi regional team.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|p=238}} The first notable stage for the general classification came in form of the stage 6 time trial, which was won by Rivière, 21 ahead of Baldini and almost a minute faster than Anquetil. The following day, Anglade was part of a breakaway that gained nearly 5 minutes on the rest of the field. On stage 13, Anglade won ahead of Anquetil, with Baldini and Bahamontes also in the lead group. Gaul suffered on the stage and lost twenty minutes, effectively ruling him out of contention. Anglade was now second in the overall standings, more than 3 minutes ahead of Baldini, Bahamontes, and Anquetil, while Rivière was more than six minutes behind Anglade. Two days later, Bahamontes won the mountain time trial up the [[Puy de Dôme]], taking more than three minutes out of Anglade's lead. Anquetil now laid sixth in the standings, more than five minutes behind second-placed Bahamontes. On stage 17 in the Alps, Bahamontes and Gaul escaped together, the latter taking the stage win while Bahamontes moved into the race lead, finishing three-and-a-half minutes ahead of the other challengers. The next stage was the decisive one of the race, with several high mountain climbs. Following the Col de l'Iseran, Anquetil and Rivière found themselves in a lead group, having distanced Bahamontes and Gaul, but allowed them to catch back on. On the descent of the following climb, the Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard, Anglade, Baldini, and Gaul attacked. Anquetil and Rivière then both assisted Bahamontes in regaining contact with the others. Baldini would win the stage while Bahamontes remained in the lead, 4:04 minutes ahead of Anglade, who lost another minute the following day. In the time trial on the penultimate stage to [[Dijon]], Rivière again won ahead of Anquetil, beating him by 1:38 minutes, while Bahamontes sealed overall victory. As the French riders entered the Parc des Princes during the final stage, they were booed by the crowd, who felt that Anquetil and Rivière had colluded with Bahamontes against their fellow Frenchman, Anglade. The decision to have done so might have been affected by the fact that, had another French rider won the Tour, Anquetil's market value for participation money in the lucrative post-Tour [[criterium]]s would have been less.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=236-243}}{{efn|Anquetil made no secret that he embraced the hostile reaction of the crowd, later naming a boat he owned ''Sifflets '59'' ["The Whistles of '59"].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=133}}}} Anquetil eventually finished the Tour third overall, 17 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Rivière.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=132}}

At the [[1959 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in Zandvoort]], Anquetil finished ninth as his friend Darrigade won the title. In early September, he won the prestigious [[Critérium des As]], run behind [[derny]]s.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=82-84}} Anquetil ended his season with victories at the Grand Prix Martini and Grand Prix de Lugano time trials, but for the first time since his first victory in 1953, he did not compete in the Grand Prix des Nations, won by [[Aldo Moser]] ahead of Rivière.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=133}} At the [[Trofeo Baracchi]], Anquetil, paired with Darrigade, finished only third, after they missed the start time by over a minute, but where also outridden by the pairing of Moser and Baldini.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=85}}

===1960: Giro d'Italia success===
Following two years without victory in a major stage race and with Rivière proving his match in time trials, Anquetil's star seemed to be fading at the beginning of 1960. Not wanting to share leadership of the French team with Rivière, Anquetil therefore chose to focus solely on the Giro d'Italia this year. At [[1960 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]], in the team time trial on stage 2, Anquetil, who had suffered mechanical issues, was dropped by his teammates and lost four-and-a-half minutes on his principal rivals. On stage 4, a large breakaway got clear and Anquetil's team decided not to organize a chase. This allowed the leading group to come in more than 23 minutes ahead of the field, making it virtually impossible for anybody not in it to compete for overall victory. Anquetil's poor form was further highlighted when he finished only fourth in the time trial on stage 6b and he retired the following day. He then finished third at the [[Critérium International|Critérium National]], before coming in fourteenth at the [[1960 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]].{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=89-91}}
[[File:Anquetil, Gaul, Hovenaars and Nencini Giro d'Italia 1960.jpg|thumb|Anquetil (''centre'') climbing during the [[1960 Giro d'Italia]] alongside [[Jos Hoevenaers]], [[Gastone Nencini]], and [[Charly Gaul]] (''from left to right'')]]
In the first time trial of the [[1960 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]], Anquetil finished second, but then took advantage of a breakaway he was part of on stage 3 to take the overall lead.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=133}} Anquetil then led the lead move to [[Jos Hoevenaers]], who had been part of a breakaway on stage 6. In the long time trial of the race on stage 14, Anquetil retook the lead, finishing 1:27 minutes ahead of Baldini and more than 6 minutes on Gaul. His speed had been so fast that had the organizers applied the usual rules, 70 riders would have missed the time cut. In the event, the rules were loosened and only two riders eliminated. Ahead of the final mountain stages, Anquetil now led Nencini by 3:40 minutes, with Gaul in fifth, 7:32 minutes behind. Stage 20 included the [[Gavia Pass]] for the first time in the race's history. On the ascent, Nencini was able to establish a gap to Anquetil, after the latter had a flat tire. More punctures and three bike changes followed on the dangerous descent, putting Anquetil's race lead in danger. He teamed up with [[Agostino Coletto]], whom he offered money to help him in the chase effort, to limit his losses. At the finish in [[Bormio]], Gaul won ahead of Nencini, with Anquetil losing only 2:34 minutes and retaining the pink jersey by 28 seconds. Following a ceremonial final stage, Anquetil arrived in [[Milan]] the winner of the Giro for the first time.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2011|pp=222-226}}

In Anquetil's absence, Rivière competed in the [[1960 Tour de France]] as leader of the French team and was well placed when, on stage 14, he crashed while trying to follow Nencini on a steep descent. He fell {{convert|10|m|yd|abbr=on}} down a ravine and broke two vertebrae, immediately ending his career. The great rivalry with Anquetil therefore ended abruptly. Paul Howard later wrote that with Rivière's accident "by late 1960 Anquetil was temporarily free from a serious adversary, at least within French cycling circles".{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=138}}

At the [[1960 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in East Germany]], Anquetil arrived with little preparation, but still managed to finish ninth.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=94}} Another strong time trial performance followed at the Grand Prix de Lugano, where Anquetil was so fast that second-placed rider [[Gilbert Desmet]] owed his position to the fact that Anquetil overtook him and he followed him into the finish. He followed this up with another victory at the Critérium des As, breaking the record speed in the process. Having attacked {{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}} into the race to test his legs, Anquetil decided that he felt so good that he did not slow down and rode alone until the finish.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=139}}

===1961: Tour de France return===
In early 1961, Anquetil took victory at [[1961 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]. At the Critérium National, he attacked with {{convert|1.5|km|mi|abbr=on}} left to go and won ahead of Darrigade, who had switched teams to [[Alcyon (cycling team)|Alcyon–Leroux]]. It was Anquetil's first ever victory at a one-day road race. He then competed in the [[1961 Tour de Romandie|Tour de Romandie]], winning the time trial and finishing tenth overall, in preparation for the [[1961 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]].{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=97-100}}

At the Giro, Anquetil won the time trial on stage 9 and gained the pink jersey the following day, when he was part of a breakaway that reached the finish ahead of previous leader [[Guillaume van Tongerloo]]. On stage 14, a seven-rider breakaway got away, which included [[Arnaldo Pambianco]], who was third overall. At the finish, they had a 1:42 minute advantage on the peloton containing Anquetil, putting Pambianco into the lead. Anquetil then lost another twenty seconds on stage 17, before the race reached the high mountains. On the decisive stage 20, which featured the climbs of the [[Penser Joch]] and the [[Stelvio Pass]], Gaul won two minutes ahead of Pambianco, with Anquetil losing another three minutes (two of which in time bonuses). Therefore, Pambianco won the Giro, 3:45 minutes ahead of Anquetil.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2011|pp=227-230}}
[[File:Jacques Anquetil, Tour de France 1961 (1).jpg|thumb|left|180px|Anquetil talking to [[Piet van Est]] during the [[1961 Tour de France]]]]
At the National Championship race before the Tour, Anquetil finished fourth, with the title going to [[Raymond Poulidor]], who had earlier in the year won [[1961 Milan–San Remo|Milan–San Remo]]. Poulidor would emerge as Anquetil's new main rival, but was left out of the French team for the [[1961 Tour de France|upcoming Tour de France]] as his team manager [[Antonin Magne]] did not want him to have to work for Anquetil.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=101}} The Tour began in Anquetil's home town of Rouen and before the start, he announced that he planned to hold the race lead from the first day until the end. There were two stages run on the first day, a road stage to [[Versailles]] in the morning and then a time trial in the afternoon, with the yellow jersey only being awarded at the end of the day. Anquetil already got in the winning breakaway on the first stage, won by Darrigade, and then in the afternoon, he won the time trial by more than three minutes from the rider in second place to move into the overall lead. Over the course of the race, Anquetil rode very passively, only chasing down attacks and limiting his losses, but never going on the attack himself. This led to a race that was considered dull by the public, with sales numbers of the organizing newspaper ''[[L'Equipe]]'' going down as the Tour progressed. Anquetil won the time trial on stage 19 to effectively seal his second Tour de France victory, finishing the course almost three minutes faster than second-placed Gaul. On the final stage into Paris, he attacked together with teammate [[Robert Cazala]], who won the stage. [[Guido Carlesi]] used the same breakaway to distance Gaul and take over second place. Anquetil's winning margin over him was 12:14 minutes. Due to what the spectators considered a lack of excitement during the race, Anquetil was booed when they arrived at the Parc des Princes.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=101-105}}{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=249-252}}

Following the Tour, Anquetil competed at the [[1961 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in Bern]], finishing in the lead group in 13th place.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=106}} He then rode the Grand Prix des Nations for the first time since 1958, taking victory in record time and beating second-placed Desmet by more than nine minutes.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=147}} Following victory at the Grand Prix de Lugano, he managed only fifth place at the Trofeo Baracchi, partnered by [[Michel Stolker]], his worst position at the event during his career. Nevertheless, at the end of the season he was honored with the [[Super Prestige Pernod]] for the first time, an award given to the best rider of the year based on points given for high positions in prestigious races.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=107}}

===1962: third Tour de France victory===
For the new season in 1962, Anquetil's team Heylett folded and merged with the [[Saint-Raphaël (cycling team)|Saint-Raphaël team]], whose sporting director was Géminiani, Anquetil's former rival, who had since retired. His early season results were not good, having to retire from both Genoa–Nice and [[1962 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]. Anquetil had set himself the goal to become the first rider to have won all three of cycling's [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]], which meant that for 1962, he targeted the [[1962 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]. Here, he had to share team leadership with [[Rudi Altig]]. The race came down to the time trial on stage 15, which Altig won decisively. Anquetil then dropped out of the race following the stage, only to be diagnosed with [[viral hepatitis]] once back in France. Altig eventually won the Vuelta.{{sfn|Fallon|Bell|2019|pp=100-106}} Against the advice of his doctor, who felt that the illness had weakened Anquetil too much, he then raced in the [[1962 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]] in preparation for the Tour. He suffered during the fifth stage, where he lost 17 minutes, but managed to finish the race in 12th place overall.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=109-112}}
[[File:Ab Geldermans, Jacques Anquetil and Mies Stolker, Tour de France 1962 (1) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Anquetil with his [[Saint-Raphaël (cycling team)|Saint-Raphaël]] teammates [[Albertus Geldermans|Ab Geldermans]] (''left'') and [[Mies Stolker]] (''right'') at the [[1962 Tour de France]]]]
For the [[1962 Tour de France]], the organizers dropped the provisions of national teams and allowed the riders to compete in trade teams, meaning that Anquetil rode for Saint-Raphaël. Poulidor was considered his main competition along with reigning World Champion [[Rik van Looy]], both were riding their first Tour. A break within the peloton on the first stage, won by Altig, saw Poulidor lose almost 8 minutes. Anquetil won the stage 8b time trial and moved into 12th place in the general classification, behind a number of riders who had been in an earlier breakaway, but were not considered threats for overall victory. On stage 11, the first in the [[Pyrenees]], van Looy was brought down when a motorbike caused a crash, leading him to abandon. After stage 12, also in the high mountains, Anquetil moved up into sixth place. The following day was a mountain time trial to [[Superbagnères]]. Anquetil finished the day third, behind stage winner Bahamontes and [[Jef Planckaert]], the surprise of the Tour, who moved into the race lead, with Anquetil in fourth, 1:08 minutes behind. On stage 19, Poulidor escaped and went on to win the stage, while Anquetil finished with Planckaert, which left their time difference intact. However, Anquetil had moved up to second and Poulidor up to third. In the {{convert|68|km|mi|abbr=on}} time trial on stage 20 to [[Lyon]], Anquetil won with ease, catching Poulidor for three minutes at the half-way mark of the course and beating Planckaert by 5:19 minutes. This gave Anquetil a record-equalling third Tour victory, 4:59 minutes ahead of Planckaert, who showed sportsmanship when he did not attack Anquetil when the latter suffered a crash on the final day into Paris.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=253-259}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=113-114}} After the Tour, it was discovered that Anquetil had ridden the entire event with a [[tapeworm]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=159}}{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=115}}

While recovering from the worm, Anquetil placed only fifteenth at the [[1962 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in Salò]], won by his friend and teammate [[Jean Stablinski]]. Still weakened, he then skipped most of the late-season time trials, but for the Trofeo Baracchi, which he attended together with Altig. Not having prepared well for the event, Anquetil suffered from the beginning and was unable to take turns at the front, forced to stay in Altig's slipstream and at some points suffering the humiliation of Altig having to push him in order to keep up. When they reached the finish, their time was taken at the entrance of the velodrome. As they entered the arena, Anquetil was unable to take the sharp right turn onto the track, drove onto the grass, and crashed into a crowd of spectators. The pair had won the event, in record time, but Anquetil was brought into hospital, his face covered in blood, while Altig took the victory lap on his own. Feeling humiliated by the experience, Anquetil prepared well for a similar two-men time trial event two weeks later in Altig's home country, in [[Baden-Baden]]. This time, it was Anquetil who set a high pace which Altig had a hard time following.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=116-117}}

===1963: Vuelta-Tour double===
Early in 1963, Anquetil won [[1963 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]] and the Critérium National in preparation for another attempt at the Vuelta.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=119}} He lined up at the [[1963 Vuelta a España]] in good shape. He won the stage 1b time trial on the first afternoon by 2:51 minutes on the second placed rider, including the time bonus, he already held more than three minutes advantage on his rivals. Anquetil's team managed to neutralize all the attacks during the difficult first week. The remaining stages were mostly flat and suited Anquetil. Even though he only finished second on the stage 12b time trial to [[Tarragona]], suffering from stomach cramps, he eventually won the Vuelta easily, beating [[José Martín Colmenarejo]] by 3:06 minutes.{{sfn|Fallon|Bell|2019|pp=106-109}} With his victory, he became the first rider to have won all the Grand Tours.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=120}}
[[File:Voor de start Seamus Elliott, Jean Stablinkski en Jacques Anquetil onder een pa, Bestanddeelnr 915-3084.jpg|thumb|Anquetil (''right'') with teammates [[Shay Elliott]] and [[Jean Stablinski]] at the [[1963 Tour de France]]]]
To prepare for the Tour, Anquetil competed in the [[1963 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]], where he won the time trial and the general classification. Thereafter, he helped Stablinski to victory at the National Championships, himself finishing third.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=121-122}} The [[1963 Tour de France|Tour de France]] became a fight between Anquetil and Bahamontes, who gained time when he got into a breakaway on the first stage. After winning the stage 6b time trial, Anquetil moved up into seventh place overall, behind a number of riders who had been in earlier breakaways, but more than a minute ahead of Bahamontes and Poulidor. On stage 10, he managed to stay with Bahamontes and outsprinted him at the finish, gaining his first-ever victory on a mountain stage. On stage 17, Anquetil and Géminiani used a ruse, pretending to suffer a broken chain, to allow Anquetil to switch to a lighter bike for the ascent of the [[Col de la Forclaz]], allowing him to stay with Bahamontes on the steep climb and again outsprint him at the finish. He had therefore moved into the race lead, extending his advantage in the final time trial. His eventual winning margin over Bahamontes was 3:35 minutes as he became the first rider to win the Tour four times.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=260-264}}

At the [[1963 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championship road race in Ronse]], Anquetil was leading alone with {{convert|1|km|mi|abbr=on}} ahead of the chasing field, but led up his effort when he turned around to see the other riders approaching. After the finish, second-placed van Looy was irritated at Anquetil, saying that he had given up his chance at certain victory. Towards the end of the season, he competed in the Trofeo Baracchi, partnered with Poulidor, where they finished second. For the second time, he won the Super Prestige Pernod for the best rider of the season.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=125-128}}

===1964: Giro d'Italia, a fifth Tour de France, and the duel with Poulidor===
[[File:Italo Zilioli, Jacques Anquetil and Vittorio Adorni 1964.jpg|thumb|left|[[Vittorio Adorni]], [[Italo Zilioli]], and Anquetil (''from left to right'') at the [[1964 Giro d'Italia]]]]
At the beginning of the 1964 season, Anquetil raced at [[1964 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]] again, being beaten in the uphill time trial by Poulidor and finishing only sixth. When he lined up for the spring classic [[1964 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]], few expected much of him, since Anquetil did not usually excel at one-day races. A few kilometres before the finish, Anquetil, not familiar with the course, asked another rider where the finish was. Given the answer that it was not far away, he broke away from the field for an unlikely victory, his first at a one-day road race outside of France.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=129-130}} For 1964, Anquetil had again set himself the target to emulate Coppi by winning the Giro and the Tour in the same year. He started the [[1964 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]] strongly, winning the stage 5 time trial at a speed of more than {{convert|48|kph|mph|abbr=on}}, taking the race lead in the process. Though he was unable to add another stage victory, he would not lose the pink jersey until the finish in Milan, beating [[Italo Zilioli]] by 1:22 minutes.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=131-132}}
[[File:Jacques Anquetil, Tour de France 1964 (1).jpg|thumb|Anquetil at the [[1964 Tour de France]]]]
The [[1964 Tour de France]] would become a two-man fight between Anquetil and Poulidor. The latter lost 14 seconds after a crash on the first stage, but took some time back when he escaped in a group on stage 7, with Anquetil reaching the finish 34 seconds behind. The next day, Anquetil lost another 47 seconds, as Poulidor finished second and Anquetil suffered a puncture. On stage 9, finishing in [[Monaco]], Poulidor sprinted for the stage victory and celebrated, only to realize there was another lap to run. The second time around, it was Anquetil who won the stage and with it a one-minute time bonus. The next day, Anquetil also won the time trial, taking another 46 seconds advantage on Poulidor. In the general classification, Anquetil now was second, with Poulidor third, 31 seconds behind. During the rest day in [[Andorra]], Anquetil, known for his extravagant eating habits, was pictured eating a ''[[méchoui]]'', an entire lamb. The next day, stage 14, Anquetil started badly, falling behind on the first climb and even contemplating retiring from the race. Being four minutes behind Poulidor, Bahamontes, and yellow jersey [[Georges Groussard]], Anquetil found himself in a group of seven riders who worked well together and succeeded in bridging the gap. Poulidor then had to change bikes with {{convert|28|km|mi|abbr=on}} to go, and fell into the ditch when his director pushed him too hard when he got going again. By the end of the stage, Poulidor had lost 2:37 minutes on Anquetil. Poulidor managed to record a strong solo victory on the following stage into [[Luchon]], gaining enough time to close the gap on Anquetil in the general classification to just nine seconds. In the stage 17 time trial, Anquetil took victory, but Poulidor managed to reduce his losses to just 37 seconds, even though he suffered a puncture and a slow bike change, leaving him 56 seconds down on Anquetil overall. Stage 20 was the decisive leg of the race, ending on the Puy de Dôme climb. Poulidor attacked early in the stage, but was brought back by Anquetil with the help of Altig. As they reached the final climb, Bahamontes and [[Julio Jiménez (cyclist)|Julio Jiménez]] escaped, while Anquetil and Poulidor made the ascent side-by-side. In what would become one of the Tour's most historic stages, the two opponents went up the climb elbow to elbow, until {{convert|900|m|yd|abbr=on}}, Anquetil weakened, allowing Poulidor to slowly get ahead of him. By the finish, Poulidor had taken 42 seconds out of Anquetil's advantage, who remained in the yellow jersey. After crossing the finish line, Anquetil asked Géminiani how much time he had lost. When his sporting director answered "Fourteen seconds", Anquetil replied: "Well, that's thirteen more than I need."{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=138}} Anquetil then went on to win the final time trial into Paris, extending his eventual winning margin to 55 seconds over Poulidor.<ref name="cn_1964">{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Barry |title=Moment of truth – The Puy de Dôme and the Tour de France's greatest duel |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/moment-of-truth-the-puy-de-dome-and-the-tour-de-frances-greatest-duel/ |publisher=[[cyclingnews.com]] |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724100302/https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/moment-of-truth-the-puy-de-dome-and-the-tour-de-frances-greatest-duel/ |archive-date=24 July 2023 |date=9 July 2023}}</ref> It was Anquetil's fifth Tour victory and the fierce duel between him and Poulidor started a cycling boom in France.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=134-141}}{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=266-273}} Anquetil became the first rider since Coppi to win both the Giro and the Tour in the same year.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=194}}{{efn|The feat has since been repeated by [[Eddy Merckx]] (1970, 1972, 1974), [[Bernard Hinault]] (1982, 1985), [[Stephen Roche]] (1987), [[Miguel Induráin]] (1992, 1993), [[Marco Pantani]] (1998), and [[Tadej Pogačar]] (2024).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicholson |first1=Kit |title=Tour de France 2022: The Giro d'Italia-TdF double... if anyone can, it's Tadej Pogačar |url=https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2022/tour-de-france-2022-the-giro-tour-double-if-anyone-can.-poga-can_sto8631803/story.shtml |publisher=[[Eurosport]] |access-date=24 July 2023 |date=19 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshell-Bell |first1=Chris |title=How Tadej Pogačar created history and claimed cycling's Triple Crown of the Giro-Tour-Worlds |url=https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/how-tadej-pogacar-created-history-and-won-the-giro-ditalia-and-tour-de-france-in-the-same-season |access-date=20 November 2024 |work=[[Cycling Weekly]] |date=30 September 2024}}</ref>}}

Anquetil raced little after the Tour, finishing seventh at the [[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in Sallanches]] and skipping all of the end-of-season time trials.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=142-143}}

===1965: Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and Bordeaux–Paris===
[[File:Ronde van Nederland, start te Amstelveen, Jacques Anquetil (links) en Jean Stabl, Bestanddeelnr 917-7570.jpg|thumb|Anquetil and his close friend and teammate [[Jean Stablinski]] (''right'') at the [[Tour of the Netherlands]] in 1965]]
For 1965, Saint-Raphaël stopped sponsorship of Anquetil's team, which was taken over by [[Ford France (cycling team)|Ford France]].{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=141}} In those days, the main income for professional cyclists came from criteriums, small races run over laps in city centres, usually held shortly after the Tour de France. Since Anquetil had found that winning more Tours would not increase his value in terms of start money, he opted not to race any of the three Grand Tours in 1965. Early in the season, he won both [[1965 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]] and the Critérium National and also participated for three days in the [[Monte Carlo Rally]] to placate his new sponsor [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=195-197}}

Instead of the Grand Tours, Géminiani decided to propose another feat: the [[1965 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]] ended on the same day that the {{convert|560|km|mi|abbr=on}} classic [[Bordeaux–Paris]] started, a race partly done behind dernies due to its excessive length. Géminiani pitched the idea to Anquetil's wife Jeanine, who then convinced her husband to try to win both races. The announcement of the attempt made headlines in the newspapers, bringing significant publicity to both events. The organizers of the Critérium du Dauphiné, originally reluctant of the idea, eventually aided the attempt by moving the start time of the final stage one hour forward to give Anquetil enough time to get from [[Avignon]] (finishing town of the Dauphiné) to [[Bordeaux]]. At the Critérium du Dauphiné, Anquetil won narrowly, mostly through time bonuses at stage finishes and a slender victory in the time trial. However, he eventually won the race by 1:43 minutes over Poulidor. Just 15 minutes after standing on the podium at 5 pm, Anquetil was already in a car, being driven to the hotel for a bath and dinner, before heading to [[Nîmes]] airport, boarding a private jet which flew him to Bordeaux. The race to Paris started in the middle of the night, and Anquetil, not having slept, suffered at the beginning. Coming close to retiring in the early hours of the morning, he was convinced by his teammates to continue. He eventually joined a breakaway with [[Tom Simpson]] and Stablinski and then attacked on the Côte de Picardie climb, {{convert|8|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the finish, and went on to win the race by 57 seconds ahead of Stablinski.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=198-206}}

After failing to finish the [[1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships in San Sebastián]], Anquetil returned to the end-of-season time trials. He won the Grand Prix des Nations ahead of Altig and then beat [[Gianni Motta]] at the Gran Premio di Lugano. Anquetil then won his second ever Trofeo Baracchi, partnered with Stablinski. For the third time, Anquetil won the Super Prestige Pernod.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=155-157}}

===1966: Grand Tour return and Liège–Bastogne–Liège victory===
Anquetil started the 1966 strongly with victory at the [[Giro di Sardegna]]. At [[1966 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]], he was in the race lead but lost time to Poulidor on a hilly time trial due to his bike not being fitted properly. Anquetil then struck an alliance with the Italian riders around Gianni Motta and their joint attacks put Poulidor under pressure, allowing Anquetil to win the stage and the race overall. In early May, he was on the start line for [[1966 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|Liège–Bastogne–Liège]], the oldest race on the cycling calendar and one of the sport's [[Cycling monument|so-called monuments]]. Anquetil felt he had a chance of victory at escaped alone from a group containing Motta, [[Felice Gimondi]], and a young [[Eddy Merckx]]. Even though the trio worked together well to bring him back, Anquetil's advantage continued to grow until the finish, where he won by almost five minutes. After the finish, he was approached while conducting interviews, being told he had to deliver a urine sample for the [[Doping in sport|doping control]], but he did not pay any attention to it and left. The next day, news broke that he had been disqualified by the Belgian cycling federation for his refusal. Following Anquetil's insistence that he had not been approached for the test officially, the authorities relented and his victory was allowed to stand.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=160-163}}
[[File:Jacques Anquetil and Felice Gimondi, Giro d'Italia 1966.jpg|thumb|left|Anquetil and [[Felice Gimondi]] (''right'') at the [[1966 Giro d'Italia]]]]
Unlike the previous year, Anquetil lined up for the [[1966 Giro d'Italia]]. On the very first stage, he suffered two flat tires when an overenthusiastic fan tried to give him water, fell, and the glass bottle broke on the ground. A 22-rider group, containing all the other favourites, got away while Anquetil had his tires taken care of and at the finish, he had lost 3:15 minutes. Second place behind [[Vittorio Adorni]] in the stage 13 time trial brought him up to tenth place overall, but Anquetil no longer felt like he could win the Giro and set to preventing Gimondi from winning, since he considered the rising popularity of the young Italian a threat to his financial opportunities during the criteriums. After some strong riding in the mountain stages, Anquetil eventually finished third in the Giro, 4:40 minutes behind winner Motta.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2011|pp=256-261}}
[[File:Tour de France , Jacques Anquetil, Bestanddeelnr 919-2983.jpg|thumb|175px|Anquetil (''right'') with eventual race winner [[Lucien Aimar]] at the [[1966 Tour de France]]]]
The [[1966 Tour de France]] was again expected to be a battle between Anquetil and Poulidor. On stage 9, Anquetil led a strike by the riders against the newly established anti-doping controls. Both Anquetil and Poulidor mainly marked one another, allowing Anquetil's teammate [[Lucien Aimar]] and [[Jan Janssen]] to gain time on stage 10. Poulidor won the time trial on stage 14b, 7 seconds ahead of Anquetil. On stage 17, Aimar took advantage of the stalemate to break away from the lead group, win the stage, and take over the race lead. Anquetil, weakened by illness, helped Aimar by chasing down attacks from Janssen and Poulidor over the next stage, before dropping out the next day. Aimar eventually won the Tour ahead of Janssen and Poulidor.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=164}}{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2008|pp=13-22}}

After the Tour, Anquetil competed at the [[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships]] held on the [[Nürburgring]] racing circuit. Late in the race, Anquetil and Poulidor were in a leading group with Motta, but both Frenchmen did not work together, allowing Altig to catch back up. In the final sprint to the line, Altig, by far the best sprinter, easily won, taking the title on home soil. Anquetil finished second, ahead of Poulidor, the highest position he would ever achieve in the World Championships. Anquetil then started and won the Grand Prix des Nations for the ninth time in his career, the final time he would ride the race. In the Super Prestige Pernod, Anquetil was highly placed going into the final race of the competition, the [[1966 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]. He finished fourth, earning him enough points to win the season-long competition for the fourth and last time in his career.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=164-167}}

===1967–1969: final years and invalidated Hour Record attempt===
[[File:Jacques Anquetil 1967.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Anquetil in the [[pink jersey]] ahead of stage 21 of the [[1967 Giro d'Italia]], the last time he wore a leader's jersey at a [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tour]].]]
With Ford France pulling out of sponsorship, Anquetil, like many of his teammates and director Géminiani, switched over to the [[Bic (cycling team)|Bic team]]. By 1967, Anquetil started to appear in less one-day races, but lined up on short notice at the Critérium National, held in his home town of Rouen, and won.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=170}} Anquetil then again started at the [[1967 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]], losing some time early on, before moving into the pink jersey with a fourth place in the stage 16 time trial, as all other favourites put in poor rides. He lost the lead the next day to [[Silvano Schiavon]], who had shared a successful breakaway with [[Franco Balmamion]]. Having lost all but two teammates by the start of stage 20, Anquetil managed to limit his losses on the stage to regain the overall lead, albeit just 34 seconds ahead of Gimondi. During the following stage, he fended off several attacks, but eventually Gimondi managed to escape, gaining 4:09 minutes on Anquetil, relegating him to second place. On the penultimate stage on the final day, Anquetil made several attacks, but was unable to break away from Gimondi. Thus tired, he proceeded to lose second place to Balmamion and finished the Giro in third.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2011|pp=262-268}}{{efn|In 2012, it was revealed that former deputy race director Giovanni Michelotti admitted late in his life to having aided Gimondi on stage 21 by giving him the slipstream of the race organization's car as he was riding away from Anquetil. He allegedly did so to make up for the fact that he had annulled the result of stage 19 to [[Tre Cime di Lavaredo]] after many riders had been pushed up the climb by spectators. Gimondi had originally won that stage and gained the pink jersey before the result was taken back.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brunel |first1=Philippe |title=Et Gimondi vola un Giro à Anquetil... |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Article/Et-gimondi-vola-un-giro-a-anquetil/672719 |access-date=25 July 2023 |work=[[L'Equipe]] |date=13 May 2016 |language=French|trans-title=And Gimondi stole a Giro from Anquetil...}}</ref>}}

For its [[1967 Tour de France|1967 edition]], the Tour de France reverted to national teams and Marcel Bidot picked Poulidor as leader, while Anquetil stayed away. He instead decided that he would make an attempt at breaking Rivière's now eleven-year old hour record. On 27 September, he made the attempt, again at the Velodromo Vigorelli, beating the record by {{convert|146|m|yd|abbr=on}}. After Anquetil finished his ride, he was approached by the doctor appointed by the sport's governing body, the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] (UCI), to conduct his doping test. Géminiani protested that there was no lavatory on site at the velodrome and that Anquetil would not provide the urine sample out in the open. Since the doctor refused to travel with Anquetil to his hotel, no test was done and Anquetil's record therefore never ratified by the UCI.{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=173-174}} For the first time in his career, Anquetil was not chosen as part of the French team at the [[1967 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships]], but Anquetil managed a second place at the Trofeo Baracchi, partnering [[Bernard Guyot]], to end his season. At the end of the year, Anquetil became chairman of the French Professional Cyclists Union, responsible for advocating the riders' interests towards the governing bodies and race organizers.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=176}}

The final two seasons of Anquetil's career were relatively quiet. He did not race much in 1968, with his only victory coming at the Trofeo Baracchi, riding together with Gimondi. In 1969, he finished third at [[1969 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]] and then won the [[1969 Tour of the Basque Country|Tour of the Basque Country]], his last victory as a professional. His last professional race on the road was the [[1969 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championship road race in Zolder]], where he placed 40th. He participated in a number of autumn criteriums and raced for the last time in Paris at the [[Vélodrome de Vincennes|La Cipale velodrome]] at a track event, the venue would later be named after him.{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=182}} Anquetil's final outing was at a track event in Belgium{{efn|There are conflicting reports on the location. While Richard Yates places the event in [[Brussels]],{{sfn|Yates|2001|p=182}} Paul Howard writes that it was in [[Antwerp]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=252}}}} on 27 December 1969.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=247-252}}

==Post-retirement==
After he retired from professional cycling, Anquetil spent most of his time tending to his own farm, even though it was not profitable. He also owned several properties in [[Cannes]] as well as a [[gravel pit]] in [[Normandy]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=260-261}} Apart from these business endeavors, Anquetil served as race director at both [[Paris–Nice]] and the [[Grand Prix du Midi Libre]]. He wrote columns for the [[L'Equipe]] sports newspaper and worked as commentator during races, first on the radio for [[Europe 1]] and then on television for [[France 2|Antenne 2]]. In the early 1970s, Anquetil agreed to help {{ill|Richard Marillier|fr|Richard Marillier}}, who had been his superior in the army in Algeria, run the French national cycling team. Anquetil did not really fulfill any practical function in his position, but helped bring Marillier, who was relatively unknown in the cycling world, a greater sense of authority. Anquetil continued in this position until the [[1987 UCI Road World Championships]], shortly before his death.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=253-257}}

== Anquetil–Poulidor: the social significance ==
[[File:Raymond Poulidor, Jacques Anquetil and Federico Bahamontes podium, Tour de France 1964 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Raymond Poulidor]], Anquetil, and [[Federico Bahamontes]] (''from left to right'') on the podium of the [[1964 Tour de France]]]]
Anquetil unfailingly beat [[Raymond Poulidor]] in the Tour and yet Poulidor remained more popular. Divisions between their fans became marked, which two sociologists studying the impact of the Tour on French society say became emblematic of France old and new. The extent of those divisions is shown in a story, perhaps apocryphal, told by [[Pierre Chany]], who was close to Anquetil:

<blockquote>The Tour de France has the major fault of dividing the country, right down to the smallest hamlet, even families, into two rival camps. I know a man who grabbed his wife and held her on the grill of a heated stove, seated and with her skirts held up, for favouring Jacques Anquetil when he preferred Raymond Poulidor. The following year, the woman became a Poulidor-iste. But it was too late. The husband had switched his allegiance to Gimondi. The last I heard they were digging in their heels and the neighbours were complaining.<ref name=wood>Woodland, Les (2007) ''The Yellow Jersey Guide to the Tour de France'', UK. {{ISBN|0224063189}}</ref></blockquote>

Jean-Luc Boeuf and Yves Léonard, in their study, wrote:

<blockquote>Those who recognised themselves in Jacques Anquetil liked his priority of style and elegance in the way he rode. Behind this fluidity and the appearance of ease was the image of France winning and those who took risks identified with him. Humble people saw themselves in Raymond Poulidor, whose face – lined with effort – represented the life they led on land they worked without rest or respite. His declarations, full of good sense, delighted the crowds: a race, even a difficult one, lasts less time than a day bringing in the harvest. A big part of the public therefore finished by identifying with the one who symbolised bad luck and the eternal position of runner-up, an image that was far from true for Poulidor, whose record was particularly rich.<ref>The authors quote [[Milan–San Remo]], the [[La Flèche Wallonne]], the [[Vuelta a España]] and [[Paris–Nice]].</ref> Even today, the expression of the eternal second and of a Poulidor Complex is associated with a hard life, as an article by Jacques Marseille showed in ''Le Figaro'' when it was headlined "This country is suffering from a Poulidor Complex".<ref>''Le Monde'', 16 April 2002, supplement page 3</ref><ref>Boeuf, Jean Luc and Léonard Yves (2003), ''La République du Tour de France'', Seuil, France. {{ISBN|202058073X}}</ref></blockquote>

== Riding style ==
Anquetil was a smooth rider, a beautiful pedalling machine according to the American journalist Owen Mulholland:

<blockquote>The sight of Jacques Anquetil on a bicycle gives credence to an idea we Americans find unpalatable, that of a natural aristocracy. From the first day he seriously straddled a top tube, "Anq" had a sense or perfection most riders spend a lifetime searching for. Between 1950, when he rode his first race, and nineteen years later, when he retired, Anquetil had countless frames underneath him, yet that indefinable poise was always there.<ref name="BikeRaceInfo" /></blockquote>

<blockquote>The look was that of a greyhound. His arms and legs were extended more than was customary in his era of pounded post World War II roads. And the toes pointed down. Just a few years before, riders had prided their ankling motion, but Jacques was the first of the big gear school. His smooth power dictated his entire approach to the sport. Hands resting serenely on his thin [[Mafac]] brake levers, the sensation from Quincampoix, Normandy, appeared to cruise while others wriggled in desperate attempts to keep up.<ref name="BikeRaceInfo">{{cite web|url=http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/riderhistories/Anquetil%20part%202.html|title=Bikerace Info, Rider database, Jacques Anquetil|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821072612/http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/riderhistories/Anquetil%20part%202.html|archive-date=21 August 2008}}</ref></blockquote>

== Personal life and family==
[[File:Château Anquetil 3.jpg|thumb|The [[château]] formerly owned by Anquetil near Rouen]]
[[File:Anquetil's grave at Quincampoix.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Anquetil's grave in [[Quincampoix]]]]
In March 1957, Anquetil began an affair with Jeanine Boëda, the wife of his doctor and seven years his senior. They had known each other for several years before the start of their relationship. Anquetil had just been discharged from the army, where, in Algeria, he had begun an affair with Paule Voland, a ballet dancer at the [[Algerian National Theater Mahieddine Bachtarzi|Opera d'Algers]]. This affair had caused a public sensation and Voland traveled to Rouen in June 1957 to visit Anquetil's parents, in the belief that he would propose marriage to her. He eventually had Jeanine deliver the news to Voland that he did not intend to do so.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=93-100}} In early 1958, Jeanine confessed the ongoing affair to her husband, who denied her a divorce. Anquetil then abandoned a training camp in the Mediterranean to travel to Normandy and showed up on the Boëdas' doorstep. Only dressed in her night clothes, Jeanine went with him to Paris. They lived together from that point on. Jeanine's two children, her daughter Annie and her son Alain, moved in with them two years later.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=107-111}} Jeanine would accompany Anquetil to most of his races, at a time when it was unusual for a partner to do so.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=119}} By the end of 1958, her husband granted Jeanine a divorce and she and Anquetil were married on 22 December 1958.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=121-122}} In late 1967, Anquetil bought the [[château]] next to the farm he owned close to Rouen. He prolonged his career by two years in order to be able to pay it off.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=249}}

Following his retirement from professional cycling, Anquetil had a strong desire to father a child of his own, however, Jeanine was no longer able to conceive. Anquetil therefore suggested using a [[Surrogacy|surrogate mother]], someone they would pay to have their child. Jeanine, not liking the idea of a stranger who they might deprive of their child, instead went to her 18-year-old daughter Annie, who consented to the idea of having a child with her stepfather.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=263-268}} Even after their daughter, Sophie, was born in 1971, Annie and Anquetil remained in a sexual relationship while he remained happily married to Jeanine for another 12 years.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=274}} While the general public was in the dark about the situation surrounding Sophie's parentage, according to Jeanine, their close friends knew about it.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=279}} Annie eventually met another man and ended her relationship with Anquetil, moving out in 1983, while Sophie initially remained with him and her grandmother.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=281}} Several months later, in an apparent attempt to win back Annie by making her jealous, Anquetil seduced Dominique, wife of his stepson Alain, who both lived with the family. Anquetil's new affair broke the family apart, with Sophie moving in with Annie and Jeanine leaving to live in Paris shortly thereafter. Alain also left and remarried. Anquetil and Jeanine were eventually divorced in September 1987. Dominique and Anquetil had a son together, Christopher, born on 2 April 1986.{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=282-284}}

===Illness and death===
Anquetil was diagnosed with an advanced form of [[stomach cancer]] on 25 May 1987. According to both his childhood friend Dieulois and fellow Tour winner [[Bernard Hinault]], Anquetil waited until he received proper treatment, delaying it to fulfill commentating duties over the summer before going to hospital. On 11 August, he had his [[Gastrectomy|stomach removed surgically]].{{sfn|Howard|2008|pp=287-289}} He died on 18 November 1987, surrounded by Sophie and Dominique, at the Saint Hilaire Clinic in Rouen.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=297}}

===Legacy===
The [[1997 Tour de France]] paid homage to Anquetil, on the 40th anniversary of his first Tour victory and ten years after his death, by having the ''[[List of Tour de France Grands Départs|Grand Départ]]'' around Rouen. On the day of the first stage, a ceremony was held at his grave and a pier in Quincampoix was renamed Quai Anquetil.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fotheringham |first1=William |title=Riis pedals claim to be next boss of the bunch |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-riis-pedals-claim-to-be-nex/128831027/ |access-date=25 July 2023 |work=[[The Observer]] |date=6 July 1997 |page=8}}</ref>

== Doping ==
Anquetil never hid the fact that he took drugs: in a debate with a government minister on French television, he said only a fool would imagine it was possible to ride Bordeaux–Paris on just water. He and other cyclists had to ride through "the cold, through heat waves, in the rain and in the mountains", and they had the right to treat themselves as they wished, he said, before adding: "Leave me in peace; everybody takes dope."<ref>Cited in ''Les Miroirs du Tour'', French television, 2003</ref> There was implied acceptance of doping right to the top of the state: [[Charles de Gaulle]] said: "Doping? What doping? Did he or did he not make them play the [[Marseillaise]] [the national anthem] abroad?"<ref>Cited ''L'Équipe Magazine'' 23 July 1994</ref>

{{Quote box|align=right|width=25%|quote=Jacques had the strength – for which he was always criticised – to say out loud what others would only whisper. So, when I asked him 'What have you taken?' he didn't drop his eyes before replying. He had the strength of conviction.|source=[[Pierre Chany]] on Anquetil <ref>Penot, Christophe (1996) ''Pierre Chany, l'homme aux 50 Tours de France'', Éditions Cristel, France. {{ISBN|2-9510116-0-1}}</ref>|quoted=1}}

Anquetil argued that professional riders were workers and had the same right to treat their pains, as say, a geography teacher. But the argument found less support as more riders were reported to have died or suffered health problems through drug-related incidents, including the [[death of Tom Simpson]], in the 1967 Tour de France.<ref name=Cycling>''[[Cycling Weekly|Cycling]]'' 26 November 1987</ref>

However, there was great support in the cyclist community for Anquetil's argument that, if there were to be rules and tests, the tests should be carried out consistently and with dignity. He said it was professional dignity, the right of a champion not to be ridiculed in front of his public, that led to his refusal to take a test in the centre of the Vigorelli track after breaking the world hour record.

The unrecognised time that Anquetil set that day was nevertheless broken by the Belgian rider [[Ferdinand Bracke]]. Anquetil was hurt that the French government had never sent him a telegram of congratulations but sent one to Bracke, who was not French. It was a measure of the unacceptability of Anquetil's arguments, as was the way he was quietly dropped from future French teams.

==Major results==
===Road===
Source:<ref name="the-sports">{{cite web|title=Jacques Anquetil (France)|url=http://www.the-sports.org/jacques-anquetil-various-indiv-spf31932.html|work=The-Sports.org|publisher=Info Média Conseil|access-date=2 October 2015|location=Québec, Canada|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104342/http://www.the-sports.org/jacques-anquetil-various-indiv-spf31932.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="memoire">{{cite web|title=Palmarès de Jacques Anquetil (Fra)|language=fr|trans-title=Awards of Jacques Anquetil (Fra)|url=http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/palmares/anquetil_jacques.php|work=Mémoire du cyclisme|access-date=2 October 2015|archive-date=29 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929125646/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/palmares/anquetil_jacques.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jacques Anquetil|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=245|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130425145836/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=245|url-status=usurped|archive-date=25 April 2013|work=Cycling Archives|publisher=de Wielersite|access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref>{{sfn|Yates|2001|pp=209−217}}
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;1952
: 3rd [[File:Bronze medal olympic.svg|15px|link=Bronze medal]] [[Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team road race|Team road race]], [[1952 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
: 8th [[UCI Road World Championships – Men's amateur road race|Amateur road race]], [[1952 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
;1953
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 2nd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Antonin Rolland]])
: 3rd [[Boucles de l'Aulne|Circuit de l'Aulne]]
;1954
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 2nd [[Critérium des As]]
: 2nd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Louison Bobet]])
: 5th [[1954 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1954 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 7th Overall [[1954 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 5
: 9th [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 10th Overall [[Tour de l'Ouest]]
;1955
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 3rd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[André Darrigade]])
: 6th [[1955 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1955 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 9th Overall [[Tour du Sud-Est|Tour des Provinces du Sud-Est]]
::1st Stage 6
: 10th [[Grand Prix de Cannes]]
;1956
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 9th [[Grand Prix du Midi Libre]]
;1957
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France]] Overall [[1957 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stage 3a ([[Team time trial|TTT]]), 3b, 9, 15b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) & 20 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall [[1957 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 5a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 2nd [[Genoa–Nice]]
: 4th [[:fr:Circuit des Boucles de la Seine|Circuit des Boucles de la Seine]]
: 4th [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[André Darrigade]])
: 6th [[1957 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1957 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 7th [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 10th [[1957 Paris–Tours|Paris–Tours]]
;1958
: 1st [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px]] Overall [[Four Days of Dunkirk]]
::1st Stage 4 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 2nd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[André Darrigade]])
: 3rd [[:fr:Circuit des Boucles de la Seine|Circuit des Boucles de la Seine]]
: 10th Overall [[1958 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 5a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 10th [[1958 Milan–San Remo|Milan–San Remo]]
;1959
: 1st [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px]] Overall [[Four Days of Dunkirk]]
::1st Stage 4 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium des As]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 1st Stage 5a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) [[1959 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
: 2nd Overall [[1959 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::1st Stages 2 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) & 19 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
::Held [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px]] after Stages 2 & 15–20
: 3rd Overall [[1959 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
: 3rd [[1959 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
: 3rd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[André Darrigade]])
: 5th [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 9th [[1959 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1959 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
;1960
: 1st [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia]] Overall [[1960 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::1st Stage 9b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) & 14 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium des As]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 3rd [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 7th [[Boucles de l'Aulne|Circuit de l'Aulne]]
: 8th Overall [[1960 Tour de Romandie|Tour de Romandie]]
::1st Stage 4b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 8th [[1960 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 9th [[1960 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1960 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
;1961
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France]] Overall [[1961 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stages 1b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) & 19 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
::Held [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] after Stage 1b
: 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall [[1961 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 6a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 2nd Overall [[1961 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::1st Stage 9 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
::Held [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px]] after Stages 10–13
: 3rd [[Mont Faron#Hill climb|Mont Faron Hill Climb]]
: 4th [[Critérium des As]]
: 5th [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Michel Stolker]])
: 6th [[1961 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 9th [[Genoa–Nice]]
: 10th Overall [[1961 Tour de Romandie|Tour de Romandie]]
::1st Stage 2b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
;1962
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France]] Overall [[1962 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stages 8b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) & 20 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Boucles de l'Aulne|Circuit de l'Aulne]]
: 1st [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Rudi Altig]])
: 1st Stage 3 [[Tour des Alpes-Maritimes|Tour du Var]]
: 4th [[Manx Trophy]]
: 6th [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 9th [[Critérium des As]]
;1963
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France]] Overall [[1963 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stage 6b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]), 10, 17 & 19 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Vuelta a España]] Overall [[1963 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]
::1st Stage 1b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall [[1963 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 6a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg|20px]] Overall [[1963 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]]
::1st Stage 6a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
::1st Stage 3 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium des As]]
: 2nd [[GP Union Dortmund]]
: 2nd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Raymond Poulidor]])
: 3rd [[French National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
: 3rd [[Subida a Arrate]]
: 4th Overall [[Tour des Alpes-Maritimes|Tour du Var]]
::1st Stage 2
: 6th Overall [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
: 8th [[Boucles de l'Aulne|Circuit de l'Aulne]]
;1964
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France]] Overall [[1964 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stage 9, 10b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]), 17 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) & 22b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|alt=|link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia]] Overall [[1964 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::1st Stage 5 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[1964 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
: 1st Stage 1 [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 3rd [[Critérium des As]]
: 6th Overall [[1964 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 3 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 7th [[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1964 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 7th Overall [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
: 7th [[Grand Prix de Cannes]]
: 10th [[Subida a Arrate]]
;1965
: 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall [[1965 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 6a ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg|20px]] Overall [[1965 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]]
::1st Stages 3, 5 & 7b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
::1st Stage 3 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium des As]]
: 1st [[Manx Trophy]]
: 1st [[Mont Faron#Hill climb|Mont Faron Hill Climb]]
: 1st [[Bordeaux–Paris]]
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 1st [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Jean Stablinski]])
: 2nd [[Boucles de l'Aulne|Circuit de l'Aulne]]
: 3rd [[French National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
: 3rd [[:fr:Circuit des Boucles de la Seine|Circuit des Boucles de la Seine]]
: 4th Overall [[Giro di Sardegna]]
: 5th Overall [[Escalada a Montjuïc]]
: 6th Overall [[Subida a Arrate]]
: 7th Overall [[Tour du Sud-Est|Circuit du Provençal]]
: 7th [[Trofeo Laigueglia]]
: 8th Overall [[Tour of the Netherlands|Ronde van Nederland]]
: 8th [[1965 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
: 10th [[:fr:Tour de l'Hérault|Tour de l'Hérault]]
;1966
: 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall [[1966 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 8a
: 1st [[File:Jersey Sardegna (Red-Blue Stripe).png|20px]] Overall [[Giro di Sardegna]]
: 1st [[1966 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|Liège–Bastogne–Liège]]
: 1st [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 2nd [[File:Silver medal uci.svg|15px|alt=|link=Silver medal]] [[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1966 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 2nd Overall [[1966 Volta a Catalunya|Volta a Catalunya]]
::1st Stage 6b
: 2nd [[Giro di Campania]]
: 3rd Overall [[1966 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
: 3rd [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 4th Overall [[Escalada a Montjuïc]]
: 4th [[1966 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
: 9th [[:fr:Tour de l'Hérault|Tour de l'Hérault]]
;1967
: 1st [[File:MaillotVolta.png|20px]] Overall [[1967 Volta a Catalunya|Volta a Catalunya]]
::1st Stage 7b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium International|Critérium National de la Route]]
: 2nd [[:fr:Tour de l'Hérault|Tour de l'Hérault]]
: 2nd [[Critérium des As]]
: 2nd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Bernard Guyot]])
: 3rd Overall [[1967 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::Held [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px]] after Stages 16 & 20
: 6th Overall [[Escalada a Montjuïc]]
: 7th Overall [[Giro di Sardegna]]
: 7th [[À travers Lausanne]]
;1968
: 1st [[Boucles de l'Aulne|Circuit de l'Aulne]]
: 1st [[Maël-Pestivien]]
: 1st [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Felice Gimondi]])
: 2nd [[Mont Faron#Hill climb|Mont Faron Hill Climb]]
: 2nd [[LuK Challenge Chrono|Baden-Baden]] (with [[Rudi Altig]])
: 4th [[1968 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|Liège–Bastogne–Liège]]
: 5th [[Critérium des As]]
: 9th Overall [[Escalada a Montjuïc]]
: 10th Overall [[1968 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
;1969
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[1969 Tour of the Basque Country|Tour of the Basque Country]]
: 3rd Overall [[1969 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
: 4th Overall [[1969 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]]
: 7th [[Genoa–Nice]]
{{div col end}}

===General classification results timeline===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|colspan=18 align="center"|'''Grand Tour general classification results'''
|-
! scope="col" | [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tour]]
! scope="col" | 1953
! scope="col" | 1954
! scope="col" | 1955
! scope="col" | 1956
! scope="col" | 1957
! scope="col" | 1958
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] [[List of Vuelta a España general classification winners|Vuelta a España]]
|style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=2 |Not held
|[[1955 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1956 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1957 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1958 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1959 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1960 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1961 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1962 Vuelta a España|DNF]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1963 Vuelta a España|'''1''']]
|[[1964 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1965 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1966 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1967 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1968 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1969 Vuelta a España|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey]] [[General classification in the Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
|[[1953 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1954 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1955 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1956 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1957 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1958 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1959 Giro d'Italia|'''2''']]
|style="background:pink;"|[[1960 Giro d'Italia|'''1''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1961 Giro d'Italia|'''2''']]
|[[1962 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1963 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|style="background:pink;"|[[1964 Giro d'Italia|'''1''']]
|[[1965 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1966 Giro d'Italia|'''3''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1967 Giro d'Italia|'''3''']]
|[[1968 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1969 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] [[General classification in the Tour de France|Tour de France]]
|[[1953 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1954 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1955 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1956 Tour de France|—]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1957 Tour de France|'''1''']]
|[[1958 Tour de France|DNF]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1959 Tour de France|'''3''']]
|[[1960 Tour de France|—]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1961 Tour de France|'''1''']]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1962 Tour de France|'''1''']]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1963 Tour de France|'''1''']]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1964 Tour de France|'''1''']]
|[[1965 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1966 Tour de France|DNF]]
|[[1967 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1968 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1969 Tour de France|—]]
|-
|colspan=18 align="center"|'''Major stage race general classification results'''
|-
! [[Major one week stage races (cycling)|Major stage race]]
! scope="col" | 1953
! scope="col" | 1954
! scope="col" | 1955
! scope="col" | 1956
! scope="col" | 1957
! scope="col" | 1958
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | {{cjersey|white}} [[Paris–Nice]]
|[[1953 Paris–Nice|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1954 Paris–Nice|7]]
|[[1955 Paris–Nice|—]]
|[[1956 Paris–Nice|—]]
|style="background:white;"|[[1957 Paris–Nice|'''1''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1958 Paris–Nice|10]]
|[[1959 Paris–Nice|11]]
|[[1960 Paris–Nice|DNF]]
|style="background:white;"|[[1961 Paris–Nice|'''1''']]
|[[1962 Paris–Nice|DNF]]
|style="background:white;"|[[1963 Paris–Nice|'''1''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1964 Paris–Nice|6]]
|style="background:white;"|[[1965 Paris–Nice|'''1''']]
|style="background:white;"|[[1966 Paris–Nice|'''1''']]
|[[1967 Paris–Nice|16]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1968 Paris–Nice|10]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1969 Paris–Nice|'''3''']]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellowred.svg|20px]] [[Tirreno–Adriatico]]
|style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=13 |Not held
|[[1966 Tirreno–Adriatico|—]]
|[[1967 Tirreno–Adriatico|—]]
|[[1968 Tirreno–Adriatico|—]]
|[[1969 Tirreno–Adriatico|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | {{cjersey|yellow}} [[Tour of the Basque Country]]
|style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=16 |Not held
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1969 Tour of the Basque Country|'''1''']]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | {{cjersey|green}} [[Tour de Romandie]]
|[[1953 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1954 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1955 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1956 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1957 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1958 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1959 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1960 Tour de Romandie|8]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1961 Tour de Romandie|10]]
|[[1962 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1963 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1964 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1965 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1966 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1967 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1968 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|[[1969 Tour de Romandie|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | {{cjersey|Dauphine}} [[Critérium du Dauphiné]]
|[[1953 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1954 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1955 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|15]]
|[[1956 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1957 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1958 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1959 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1960 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1961 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|[[1962 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|12]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1963 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|'''1''']]
|[[1964 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1965 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|'''1''']]
|[[1966 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|—]]
|style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=2 |Not held
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1969 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|4]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | {{cjersey|Volta a Catalunya}} [[Volta a Catalunya]]
|[[1953 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1954 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1955 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1956 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1957 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1958 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1959 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1960 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1961 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1962 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1963 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1964 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1965 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1966 Volta a Catalunya|'''2''']]
|style="background:white; border:2px solid green;"|[[1967 Volta a Catalunya|'''1''']]
|[[1968 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|[[1969 Volta a Catalunya|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | {{cjersey|yellow}} [[Tour de Suisse]]
|[[1953 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1954 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1955 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1956 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1957 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1958 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1959 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1960 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1961 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1962 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1963 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1964 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1965 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1966 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1967 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1968 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|[[1969 Tour de Suisse|—]]
|}

===Classics results timeline===
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" colspan=19 align=center| Monuments results timeline
|-
! Monument
! scope="col" | 1953
! scope="col" | 1954
! scope="col" | 1955
! scope="col" | 1956
! scope="col" | 1957
! scope="col" | 1958
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Milan–San Remo]]
|[[1953 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1954 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1955 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1956 Milan–San Remo|12]]
|[[1957 Milan–San Remo|17]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1958 Milan–San Remo|10]]
|[[1959 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1960 Milan–San Remo|23]]
|[[1961 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1962 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1963 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1964 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1965 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1966 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1967 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1968 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1969 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Tour of Flanders (men's race)|Tour of Flanders]]
|[[1953 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1954 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1955 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1956 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1957 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1958 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1959 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1960 Tour of Flanders|14]]
|[[1961 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1962 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1963 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1964 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1965 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1966 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1967 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1968 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1969 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Paris–Roubaix]]
|[[1953 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1954 Paris–Roubaix|53]]
|[[1955 Paris–Roubaix|15]]
|[[1956 Paris–Roubaix|31]]
|[[1957 Paris–Roubaix|25]]
|[[1958 Paris–Roubaix|14]]
|[[1959 Paris–Roubaix|24]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1960 Paris–Roubaix|8]]
|[[1961 Paris–Roubaix|60]]
|[[1962 Paris–Roubaix|31]]
|[[1963 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1964 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1965 Paris–Roubaix|16]]
|[[1966 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1967 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1968 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1969 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Liège–Bastogne–Liège]]
|[[1953 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1954 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1955 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1956 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1957 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1958 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1959 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1960 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1961 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1963 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1964 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1965 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|style="background:gold;"|[[1966 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|'''1''']]
|[[1967 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1968 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|4]]
|[[1969 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Giro di Lombardia]]
|[[1953 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1954 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1955 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1956 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1957 Giro di Lombardia|23]]
|[[1958 Giro di Lombardia|12]]
|[[1959 Giro di Lombardia|21]]
|[[1960 Giro di Lombardia|34]]
|[[1961 Giro di Lombardia|17]]
|[[1962 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1963 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1964 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1965 Giro di Lombardia|8]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1966 Giro di Lombardia|4]]
|[[1967 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1968 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1969 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|-
|}

===Major championship results timeline===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | 1953
! scope="col" | 1954
! scope="col" | 1955
! scope="col" | 1956
! scope="col" | 1957
! scope="col" | 1958
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px|link=Classification in the World Championships|alt=Rainbow jersey]] [[UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships]]
|[[1953 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1954 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|5]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1955 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|6]]
|[[1956 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1957 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|6]]
|[[1958 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|DNF]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1959 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|9]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1960 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|9]]
|[[1961 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|13]]
|[[1962 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|15]]
|[[1963 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|14]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|7]]
|[[1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|DNF]]
|style="background:#C0C0C0;"|[[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|'''2''']]
|[[1967 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|[[1968 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|11]]
|[[1969 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|40]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[File:MaillotFra.PNG|20px|link=Classification in the French National Road Race Championships|alt=French jersey]] [[French National Road Race Championships|National Championships]]
|—
|—
|—
|DNF
|—
|—
|—
|—
|—
|—
|style="background:#C9AE5D;"|'''3'''
|—
|style="background:#C9AE5D;"|'''3'''
|—
|—
|—
|—
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legend
|-
! scope="row" | —
| Did not compete
|-
! scope="row" | [[Did not finish|DNF]]
| Did not finish
|}

===Track===
;1956
: 2nd [[File:Silver medal uci.svg|15px]] [[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]], [[1956 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track World Championships]]
;1957
: 1st Six Days of Paris (with [[André Darrigade]] and [[Ferdinando Terruzzi]])

===World records===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Discipline
! Record
! Date
! Velodrome
! Track
! {{abbr|Ref|References}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Hour record]]
! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | 46.159&nbsp;km
| 29 June 1956
| rowspan="2" | [[Velodromo Vigorelli|Vigorelli]] (Milan)
| rowspan="2" | Indoor
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>{{cite news|last=Hutchinson|first=Michael|title=Hour Record: The tangled history of an iconic feat|url=http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/hour-record-the-tangled-history-of-an-iconic-feat-166791|access-date=16 October 2015|work=[[Cycling Weekly]]|publisher=[[Time Inc. UK]]|date=15 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | <s>47.493&nbsp;km</s>
| 27 September 1967
| style="text-align:center;" | {{efn|Anquetil set a record distance in 1967 of 47.493 km but the record was never ratified by the UCI following Anquetil's refusal to take a post race doping control, and on 13 October the UCI voted not to allow the record.{{sfn|Howard|2008|p=239}}}}
|}

===Awards and decorations===
* [[BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year]]: 1963<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/in_depth/2000/sports_personality/1039150.stm|title=Protopopov and who?|work=[[BBC Sport]]|publisher=BBC|date=25 November 2000|first=Robin|last=Scott-Elliot|access-date=16 October 2015}}</ref>
* [[Knight of the Legion of Honour]] (France): 1966<ref name="eurosport_poulidor">{{cite web |last1=Houchard |first1=Patrice |title=Les grands récits: Jacques Anquetil - Raymond Poulidor, le duel de deux France |url=https://www.eurosport.fr/cyclisme/les-grands-recits/2020-2021/les-grands-recits-jacques-anquetil-raymond-poulidor-le-duel-de-deux-france_sto8031566/story.shtml |publisher=[[Eurosport]] |access-date=24 July 2023 |language=French |date=9 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Report No. 1894 / Reception on the occasion of the presentation of decorations to sportsmen |url=https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/facomponent/b1b03fcb1c219dd61ae37847b8f0aa6f922d6d3b |website=[[Archives Nationales (France)|France Archives]] |access-date=3 December 2024 |date=7 November 1966|language=French}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of doping cases in cycling]]
* [[List of Giro d'Italia general classification winners]]
* [[List of Grand Tour general classification winners]]
* [[List of Tour de France general classification winners]]
* [[List of Vuelta a España general classification winners]]
* [[Yellow jersey statistics]]

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== Bibliography ==
{{refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book|last=Belbin|first=Giles|title=Chasing the Rainbow: The Story of Road Cycling's World Championships|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01AuDwAAQBAJ|date=2017|publisher=Aurum Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-78131-631-3}}
* {{cite book|last=Beoutis|first=Didier|title=Le duel: Anquetil–Poulidor. Dix ans de confrontation (1960–1969)|date=2018|publisher=Mareuil Éditions|location=Paris|language=French|isbn=978-2-37254-084-1|trans-title=The Duel: Anquetil–Poulidor. Ten Years of Confrontation (1960–1969)}}
* {{cite book|last=Boelsen|first=Helmut|title=Die Geschichte der Rad-Weltmeisterschaft: Die WM-Straßenrennen der Profis von 1927 bis heute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uk6GQAACAAJ|date=2007|publisher=Covadonga|location=Bielefeld|language=German|isbn=978-3-93697-333-4|trans-title=The History of the Cycling World Championships: The Professional World Championship Road Races from 1927 to Today}}
* {{cite book|last=Cossins|first=Peter|title=The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQvsoQEACAAJ|date=2015|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London/New York|isbn=978-1-40884-683-4}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Dauncey|editor1-first=Hugh|editor2-last=Hare|editor2-first=Geoff|title=The Tour de France 1903–2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values|series=Sport in Global Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5yCkAQAACAAJ|date=2003|publisher=Frank Cass Publishers|location=London|isbn=0-71468-297-7}}
* {{cite book| last1=Fallon|first1=Lucy|last2=Bell|first2=Adrian|title=Viva la Vuelta! 1935–2018|year=2019|edition=3rd|publisher=Mousehold Press|location=Norwich|isbn=978-1-87473-989-0}}
* {{cite book|last=Fife|first=Graeme|author-link=Graeme Fife|title=Tour de France: The History, the Legend, the Riders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZeQ20Z4kcgC|year=2000|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|location=Edinburgh|isbn=978-1-84018-284-2}}
* {{cite book |last=Fotheringham |first=William |author-link=William Fotheringham |title=A Century of Cycling: The Classic Races and Legendary Champions |date=2003 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley |location=London |isbn=1-84000-654-4}}
* {{cite book | last=Fournel | first=Paul | author-link=Paul Fournel | title=Anquetil, Alone: The legend of the controversial Tour de France champion | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_n3ZDQAAQBAJ | year=2017 | publisher=[[Profile Books]] | location=London | isbn=978-1-78283-298-0 }}
* {{cite book |last=Gallagher |first=Brendan |title=Corsa Rosa: A History of the Giro d'Italia |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |isbn=978-1-4729-1880-2}}
* {{cite book | last=Howard | first=Paul | title=Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, the First Five-Times Winner of the Tour de France | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0eNTAHzlyEC | year=2008 | publisher=[[Mainstream Publishing]] | location=Edinburgh | isbn=978-1-84596-301-9 }}
* {{cite book|last1=Mallon|first1=Bill |last2=Heijmans|first2=Jeroen |title=Historical Dictionary of Cycling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrdfuueq2CcC|year=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-0-8108-7369-8}}
* {{cite book |last=Maso|first=Benjo|title=The Sweat of the Gods: Myths and Legends of Bicycle Racing|year=2010|publisher=Mousehold Press|location=Norwich|isbn=978-1-87473-937-1}}
* {{cite book | last1=McGann | first1=Bill | last2=McGann | first2=Carol | title=The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Volume 1: 1903–1964 |volume=1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxq20JskqMUC | year=2006 | publisher=Dog Ear Publishing | location=Indianapolis | isbn=978-1-59858-180-5 }}
* {{cite book|last1=McGann|first1=Bill|last2=McGann|first2=Carol|title=The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Volume 2: 1965–2007|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8mlwItBhhcC|publisher=Dog Ear Publishing|location=Indianapolis|year=2008|isbn=978-1-59858-608-4}}
* {{cite book|last1=McGann|first1=Bill|last2=McGann|first2=Carol|title=The Story of the Giro d'Italia: A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy. Volume 1: 1909–1970|volume=1|publisher=Dog Ear Publishing|location=Indianapolis|year=2011|isbn=978-0-98431-176-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Rendell|first=Matt|title=Blazing Saddles: The Cruel and Unusual History of the Tour de France|date=2008|edition=2nd|publisher=Quercus Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-1-84724-382-9}}
* {{cite book |last=Sidwells|first=Chris|title=The Call of the Road: The History of Cycle Road Racing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0f3sswEACAAJ|date=2018|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|isbn=978-0-00822-077-8}}
* {{cite book|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=Martin|title=The Telegraph Book of the Tour de France|year=2009|publisher=Aurum Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-84513-545-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Christopher S.|title=The Tour de France: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a6gwDwAAQBAJ|date=2008|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-52025-630-9}}
* {{cite book|last=Wheatcroft|first=Geoffrey|author-link=Geoffrey Wheatcroft|title=Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjAub7mpChgC|year=2013|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=London|isbn=978-1-4711-2894-3}}
*{{Citation|last=Whittle|first=Jeremy|contribution=In Search of Panache|editor1-last=Bacon|editor1-first=Ellis|editor2-last=Birnie|editor2-first=Lionel|title=The Cycling Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n0CEAwAAQBAJ|pages=30–44|year=2014|volume=5|place=London|publisher=Yellow Jersey Press|isbn=978-0-22409-242-5}}
* {{cite book|last=Woodland|first=Les|title=The Crooked Path to Victory|date=2003|publisher=Cycle Publishing|location=San Francisco|isbn=1-89249-540-6}}
* {{cite book | last=Yates | first=Richard | title=Master Jacques: The Enigma of Jacques Anquetil | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LixaNQAACAAJ | year=2001 | publisher=Mousehold Press | location=Norwich, UK | isbn=978-1-874739-18-0 }}
{{refend}}

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