Bernard Hinault
Bernard Hinault Hinault at the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné Personal information Full name Bernard Hinault Nickname Le Patron, Le Blaireau Born (1954-11-14) 14 November 1954 (age 60) Yffiniac, Brittany, France Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Weight 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st) Team information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type All-Rounder Professional team(s) 1975–1977 Gitane-Campagnolo 1978–1983 Renault-Elf-Gitane 1984–1986 La Vie Claire Major wins Grand Tours Tour de France General Classification (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985) Points Classification (1979) Mountain Classification (1986) Combativity award (1981, 1984, 1986) Combination Classification (1981, 1982) 28 individual stages (1978 -1986) Giro d'Italia General Classification (1980, 1982, 1985) 6 Individual Stages (1980, 1982, 1985) Vuelta a España General Classification (1978, 1983) 7 Individual Stages (1978, 1983) Stage races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré General classification (1977, 1979, 1981) Tour de Romandie General classification (1980) One-day races and Classics Road Race World Championships (1980) Paris–Roubaix (1981) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1977, 1980) Giro di Lombardia (1979, 1984) La Flèche Wallonne (1979, 1983) Ghent-Wevelgem (1977) Amstel Gold Race (1981) Grand Prix des Nations (1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984) Medal record Competitor for  France Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1980 Salanches Elite Men's Road Race Bronze 1981 Prague Elite Men's Road Race Infobox last updated on 16 April 2007 Bernard Hinault (pronounced: [bɛʁ.naʁ i.no]; born 14 November 1954) is a former French cyclist who won the Tour de France five times. He is one of only six cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours, and the only cyclist to have won each more than once. He won the Tour de France in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985. He came second in 1984 and 1986 and won 28 stages, of which 13 were individual time trials. The other three to have achieved five Tour de France victories are Jacques Anquetil (1964), Eddy Merckx (1974) and Miguel Indurain (1995). Of these, Hinault is the only one to have finished either first or second in each Tour de France he finished. He remains the last French winner of the Tour de France. Hinault was nicknamed Le Blaireau (the badger), as he would often don a hairband, thus resembling a shaving brush. In an interview in the French magazine Vélo, however, Hinault said the nickname had nothing to do with the animal. He said it was a local cyclists' way of saying "mate" or "buddy" in his youth – "How's it going, badger?" – and that it came to refer to him personally.