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Pierre Chany was born on 16 December, 1922 in Langeac, Haute-Loire, France, is a French cycling journalist. Discover Pierre Chany's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Sports journalist
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 16 December 1922
Birthday 16 December
Birthplace Langeac, Haute-Loire, France
Date of death 18 June, 1996
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Nationality France

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1906

He was to replace Albert Baker d'Isy (1906–1968), an author and one of France's best-known contemporary writers.

Baker d'Isy was already Chany's hero and the move brought them together for the first time and led to a lifelong friendship.

From there Chany moved to Sport and to Ce Soir, publications associated with the Communist Party but which employed journalists of various opinions.

1922

Pierre Chany (16 December 1922 – 18 June 1996) was a French cycling journalist.

He covered the Tour de France 49 times and was for a long time the main cycling writer for the daily newspaper, L'Équipe.

Chany was born in Langeac, Haute-Loire, the son of a near-illiterate father who worked in the horse industry.

1942

He raced for five years and then, in 1942 when he was 20, went into hiding rather than be sent to Germany as a worker.

He was arrested and jailed first at Puy-en-Velay and then Riom.

He escaped - on his birthday - from a train taking him to Germany.

He joined a branch of the Resistance, the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, then joined an Algerian regiment.

He was wounded three times and awarded the Croix de Guerre.

The war ended his aspirations as a cyclist and he turned to sports reporting, having briefly tried the transport business in buying two army lorries with a friend, Jacques Michelon.

1946

Encourage by another friend, Stanilas Gara, he wrote his first pieces, in 1946, for an agency which sold articles to La Marseillaise among others.

It was in La Marseillaise that his first writing appeared.

He then took a job with Front National, a Resistance publication edited by Jacques Debu-Bridel.

1953

It was when Ce Soir went out of business in 1953 that he joined L'Équipe.

He was head of cycling there from 1953 to 1987.

He also wrote under the pen name Jacques Périllat for 'Miroir Sprint and 'Miroir du Cyclisme'.

Chany insisted that L'Équipe's editor, Jacques Goddet, knew Chany was doing it but chose to say nothing rather than lose his leading cycling writer.

Pierre Chany wrote not only journalistic pieces but numerous other works, including books of cycling history which went to several new editions.

He wrote a history of the Tour de France and then of the cycling classics and the world championships.

1967

Chany received the Prix Martini in 1967 for the best sports article of the year and the Grand Prix of Sporting Literature in 1972 for his work on the Tour de France.

Jacques Anquetil said of the insight of Chany's journalism: "Don't ask me to tell you what happened during the race. There's someone more competent than I am to do that... Even I will wait until tomorrow's article by Pierre Chany in L'Équipe to find what I did, why and how I did it. What gives him authority is that he is competent, that he knows me and understands me. His version will be better than mine and it will become mine."

The Prix Pierre Chany is now awarded each year to the writer of the season's best cycling work in French.

1974

From 1974, he produced a roundup of each season, called L'Année du Cyclisme.

He wrote biographies of Fausto Coppi and Jacques Anquetil and a novel called Une Longue Échappée - A Long Break, a reference to a group of cyclists breaking away from the main field.

1989

It was established in 1989.

1996

He wrote a history of all cycle racing from the days of the first bicycle to his death in 1996.

Chany would have followed his 50th Tour in 1996.

He attended the Classique des Alpes, won by Laurent Jalabert on 1 June and then next day went to the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.

There he fell ill.

2008

It was awarded in 2008 to Philippe Bouvet for an article about the Carrefour de l'Arbre, a section of cobbles in Paris–Roubaix.

A cyclo-sportive race is held in Chany's name in Haute-Loirehim.

Pierre Chany sat through a succession of interviews with the writer Christophe Penot, who planned to publish them under the title Pierre Chany, l'homme aux 50 Tours de France.

2011

The family then moved to Paris, to run a small bar in the rue Guillaume Bertrand, in the 11th arrondissement.

Chany grew up there and, in his teens, escaped from the city on his bicycle, sometimes riding as far as Melun.

He became interested in cycle-racing after reading L'Auto, Paris-Soir and Match and looking at sepia pictures of riders such as André Leducq.

He rode several races, including the Premier Pas Dunlop event which in other years showed the talent of young riders such as Louison Bobet and Raphaël Géminiani.

In Chanaleilles, he won a cycle and a running race on the same day, winning two packets of Gauloises cigarettes.

After that he joined the CV des Marchés club in Paris.