Thierry Marie

Thierry Marie (born 25 June 1963) is a French former cyclist. Marie often performed well in prologue stages: he won the Tour de France prologue three times in his career, and because of that he wore the yellow jersey in those three years, for seven days in total. He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. On stage six of the 1991 Tour de France Marie rode alone for six hours and 234 km to win the stage and set the record for the longest post-war successful breakaway.

Marie along with Greg LeMond was one of the first cyclists to experiment with aerodynamic improvements.

Major results

1984 1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 5th Tour de Normandie 1985

1st Duo Normand (with Charly Mottet) 1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir 2nd Grand Prix des Nations 5th GP Ouest–France 6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 7th Grand Prix de Rennes 9th Paris–Tours 9th Critérium des As 10th Paris–Camembert 1986 Tour de France 1st Prologue & Stage 2 (TTT)

Vuelta a España 1st Prologue

1st Stage 2b Volta a Catalunya 3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude 1st Prologue 3rd Paris–Camembert 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne 1987

1st Prologue 1st Duo Normand (with Gérard Rué) 1988

1st Stage 1 (ITT) 1st Duo Normand (with Philippe Bouvatier) 1st Stage 20 Tour de France 1st Stage 2 Subida a Arrate 3rd Overall Tour d'Armorique 1st Stage 3b (ITT) 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Charly Mottet) 3rd Grand Prix de Denain 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1989 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Laurent Fignon) 1st Baden-Baden (with Laurent Fignon) 1st Prologue Paris–Nice 1st Prologue Tour of Belgium 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de France 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland 1st Stage 2b (ITT) 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Stages 1 & 6a (ITT) 2nd Grand Prix de Denain 2nd Grand Prix de la Libération 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 9th Overall Three Days of De Panne 1990 1st Paris–Camembert Tour de France 1st Prologue

3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland 1st Stage 5 (ITT) 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 7 3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Gérard Rué) 9th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 1991 1st Polynormande Tour de France 1st Prologue & Stage 6

1st Stage 1 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Prologue Paris–Nice 1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour d'Armorique 2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise 1st Stage 4 (ITT) 2nd Chrono des Herbiers 3rd Tour de Vendée 4th Overall Ronde van Nederland 5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 1992

1st Stage 4 (ITT) Giro d'Italia 1st Prologue

1st Stage 18 Tour de France 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne 1st Stage 1b (ITT) 3rd Circuit de l'Aulne 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 7th Trofeo Pantalica 8th Chrono des Herbiers 1993

1st Stage 5 (ITT) 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos 3rd Telekom Grand Prix (with Pascal Lino) 9th Grand Prix de Denain 1994 2nd Chrono des Herbiers 3rd Grand Prix des Nations 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 6th Overall Three Days of De Panne 6th Overall Tour de l'Oise 6th Telekom Grand Prix (with Thomas Davy 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 1995

1st Stage 2 1st La Côte Picarde 1st Châteauroux Classic 1st Stage 1b (ITT) Route du Sud 4th Overall Tour de l'Oise 4th Telekom Grand Prix (with Laurent Madouas) 5th Paris–Camembert 7th Cholet-Pays de la Loire 1996 2nd Route Adélie 7th Tour de Vendée

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish