Joseph Mauclair

Joseph Mauclair (Clichy, 9 March 1906 — Créteil, 5 February 1990) was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1927 to 1938, who won the 17th stage in the 1928 Tour de France. In 1930 traveled to Australia with Jean Bidot to compete in two stage races, the Sydney to Melbourne covering and the Tour of Tasmania covering . Mauclair won stage 2 of the Sydney to Melbourne and won the general classification ahead of Hubert Opperman and Bidot. He won the first stage of the Tour of Tasmanaia and finished 2nd in the general classification behind Opperman with Bidot finishing 3rd.

Major results

1926 1st final of Etoiles de France cyclistes 4th Paris-Reims 1927 3rd Paris-Arras 1928 Tour de France 1st stage 17 2nd stage 21 11th General classification 1st criterium des Algions 2nd Paris-Bourganeuf 3rd Paris-Caen 1929 2nd Brussels-Paris 2nd Circuit du Jura 10th Tour de Catalogne 1930 Tour de France abandoned stage 9 Sydney-Melbourne 1st stage 2 1st general classification Tour of Tasmania 1st stage 1 2nd stages 2 & 3 2nd general classification 2nd Paris-Nancy 1931 1st stage 4 Tour d'Allemagne 27th general classification Tour de France 1932 Tour de France abandoned stage 5 1933 Nice-Toulon 1st stages 1 & 2 1st general classification 1st Paris-Belfort 3rd Paris-Caen 1934 3rd stage 3 Paris-Nice 1935 1st Paris-Sedan Tour de France 3rd stage 12 19th general classification 1936 1st Paris-Belfort 1st Paris-Strasbourg 3rd Circuit du Jura 1937 1st Paris-Nantes 1948 9th Paris-Brest-Paris