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Roger Piel

French bicycle racer (1921–2002)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ955719 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roger Piel (28 June 1921 – 17 August 2002) was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1951 Tour de France.

Road Racing Palmarès

1944,1st in the National Route Criterion

1951,Winner of a stage in the Côte d'Or Circuit

Results in the Tour de France

1951.

Editorial summary

“Roger Piel” enters the record as french bicycle racer (1921–2002). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roger, Piel and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2002, 1951, 1944—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-06-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roger, Piel and French.
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Why this record matters

“Roger Piel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Roger, Piel and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q955719. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2002, 1951 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roger Piel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.