Personal information | |
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Full name | Francisco Masip Llop[1] |
Born | Barcelona, Spain | 8 August 1926
Died | 25 September 2015 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain | (aged 89)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1948 | Insecticidas Z.Z. |
1949–1951 | Individual |
1952 | Torpado |
1953 | Metropole-Hutchinson |
1953 | Peña Solera |
1954 | Gitane–Hutchinson |
1954 | Ideor |
1954–1956 | Splendid-d'Alessandro |
1957 | Ignis–Doniselli |
1957 | Mobylette Coabania |
1958 | Ignis–Doniselli |
1958 | Peña Solera-Cacaolat |
1959 | Maderas Goiria |
1960 | Maderas Goiria |
1960 | Faema |
Major wins | |
Spanish National Road Race Championships (1953) 1st stages in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (1955) |
Francisco Masip (8 August 1926 – 25 September 2015) was a Spanish professional cyclist.[2] He was professional from 1948 until 1960.[3][4]
Masip was born in Santa Coloma de Gramanet on August 8, 1926, and in Catalonia.[5] He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet for his entire life.[6]
He was the first Spanish cyclist to participate in five consecutive Tour de France editions, between 1951 and 1955. His cycling career spanned 16 seasons, from 1945 to 1960, in which he obtained a total of 19 victories.[7]