Armand de Las Cuevas

Armand de Las Cuevas (26 June 1968 – 2 August 2018) was a French racing cyclist.

De Las Cuevas won races such as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Clásica de San Sebastián and the (at the time) unofficial time trial world championship, Grand Prix des Nations. A time trial specialist, he won many prologues and individual time trials in the early 1990s. In the 1992 and 1994 Tour de France he finished in the top five of the prologue as well as the other individual time trials (ITT). He won a stage in the 1994 Giro d'Italia, an ITT, and placed in the top five of both other time trials. He was placed ninth in the general classification. In the 1994 Tour de Romandie he won the prologue and finished second overall.

He also competed in track pursuit racing, and was bronze medalist in the discipline at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Japan.

De Las Cuevas retired to Réunion in 1999, where he founded a cycling school.

In 2018, he died by suicide in Réunion.

Major results

1986

1987 3rd Chrono des Herbiers 1988

4th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe 4th Chrono des Herbiers 1990 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Asturias

1991

1st GP Ouest–France 1st Stage 3 Bicicleta Vasca 1st Bordeaux–Caudéran 2nd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe 1992 4th Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue 6th Overall Tour de l'Oise 9th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe 1993

1st Stage 2 1st Grand Prix des Nations 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 4th Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 7 1994

1st Stage 2 1st Clásica de San Sebastián 1st Paris–Camembert 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue 2nd GP du canton d'Argovie 5th Road race, National Road Championships 6th Overall Giro del Trentino 6th Overall Critérium International 9th Overall Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 1b (ITT) 1995 1st Trophée des Grimpeurs 5th GP de la Ville de Rennes 10th Overall Critérium International 1996 10th Subida a Urkiola 1997 1st Clásica de Sabiñánigo 2nd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 3rd Overall Tour of Galicia 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya 1998

1st Stage 2 9th Overall Volta ao Alentejo

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish