The Super Prestige Pernod was a season-long competition in road bicycle racing between 1958 and 1987. For the first edition it was known as the Prestige Pernod , and for the last four years as the Super Prestige Pernod International .
12-471: Disagreements between the organisers of the similar Challenge Desgrange-Colombo led to its demise and a gap in season-long competitions. In 1958, the publicity division of Pernod offered a trophy for the best French rider of the year. The competition was known as the Prestige Pernod. It was a rival to Challenge Yellow , run by the chain company Sedis since 1931. The following year, Pernod added
24-456: A single Super Prestige Pernod. A women's competition was added in 1985. Both were abandoned at the end of 1987 when France banned drinks advertising in sport. The Super Prestige Pernod was won by some of the greatest names in professional cycle racing. They included Jacques Anquetil , who won four times, Eddy Merckx won a record seven times (1969–1975); Bernard Hinault equalled Anquetil's total with his fourth consecutive victory in 1982; while
36-743: The 1948 season . The 1949 edition was won by the Italian Fausto Coppi while 1950 went to the Swiss Ferdi Kubler and 1951 to Frenchman Louison Bobet . Kubler also won in 1952 and 1954 to equal the record of Belgian Fred De Bruyne , who won from 1956 to 1958 . The competition was effectively superseded by the Super Prestige Pernod , first awarded in 1959 . Fred De Bruyne Other stage races One-day races and Classics Other Alfred De Bruyne (21 October 1930 – 4 February 1994)
48-591: The Tour de France , Giro d'Italia , Milan–San Remo , Paris–Roubaix , Tour of Flanders , La Flèche Wallonne , Paris–Brussels , Paris–Tours and the Giro di Lombardia counted towards the competition. The Tour de Suisse was added in 1949 , Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1951 , the Vuelta a España in 1958. The first winner was Belgian Briek Schotte , who won the Tour of Flanders and also world road race championship of
60-586: The Provence in France. Six years later, in February 1994, De Bruyne died of a heart attack after a lingering illness. De Bruyne cycled on intelligence and competition insight, and only attacked when he was very sure. But then he also went very explosive and fast. In contrast to his gentle nature, the talkative De Bruyne was maniacal as a cyclist. ''On the bike, I was actually a beast'', De Bruyne once let slip. He
72-542: The Super Prestige Pernod, for the best rider of the year, assessed on points attributed to the biggest races. At the same time it introduced Promotion Pernod, for the best French rider under 25. The Super Prestige Pernod became an unofficial world points championship. A fourth class, Promotion Internationale, appeared in 1983 but that and the Promotion Pernod vanished the following year to create
84-601: The Tour for the first time in his career. He won both Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Tours that year. In 1958 he rode the Giro for the first time and didn't win any stages and finished 16th overall. He won Paris–Nice, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and came in the top 10 of Gent–Wevelgem , La Flèche Wallonne , Paris–Roubaix, Paris-Tours and Milan San Remo. Fred De Bruyne also won the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo competition three years running, from 1956 to 1958. This
96-478: The final four years were won by Irish riders Sean Kelly (1984–1986) and Stephen Roche (1987). Anquetil was the only rider to regain the title having lost it, a feat he achieved twice. Source: Challenge Desgrange-Colombo The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was a season-long road bicycle racing competition between 1948 and 1958. There were two classifications, one for individual cyclists and another for nations. The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo competition
108-426: The way. In 1955 he didn't win any stages, but ended up with the highest overall classification he would ever have which was 17th. In 1956 , De Bruyne won three stages in the first half of the Tour, but slowed a bit in the second half and could not add to this total. Also in 1956 he won Milan–San Remo and Liège–Bastogne–Liège , as well as the stage race Paris–Nice early in the season. In 1957 De Bruyne abandoned
120-433: Was a Belgian champion road cyclist . He won six Tour de France stages early in his career and went on to win many other Monuments and stage races. De Bruyne had a great deal of success early in his career during the Tour de France . 1953 was his first Tour, his best result was making one stage podium, on stage 5 from Dieppe to Caen . In 1954 he finished 2nd on the final stage into Paris and won three stages along
132-555: Was created in 1948 to get the cyclists from two of the most dominant countries of the sport, France and Italy, to participate in each other's races. Named after long-time Tour de France director Henri Desgrange and Giro d'Italia director Emilio Colombo [ it ] , the competition was organised by the newspapers L'Équipe , La Gazzetta dello Sport , Het Nieuwsblad-Sportwereld and Les Sports . It marked early co-operation between L'Équipe and La Gazzetta dello Sport which lasts to this day. Riders' performances in
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#1732793119172144-531: Was the forerunner of the Super Prestige Pernod , later replaced by the UCI Ranking Points List. After his professional cycling career he went on to write several books about some of the most important Belgian cyclists of his era and became a popular TV sports commentator, a team manager, and finally a spokesman for the Panasonic cycling team. In 1988 he retired and moved with his wife to
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