Tour de France history is filled with legendary cyclists whose stories are passed down from generation to generation. This is not one of those cyclists.
Augustin Ringeval was a French cyclist of the early 1900s. He was born in Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes in 1882. Among other competitions, he participated in his first Tour de France in 1905. He went on to participate in many other Tours up until 1913.
Entries in the Tour de France:
- 1905 Tour de France – 6th place
- 1906 Tour de France – did not finish
- 1907 Tour de France – 8th place
- 1908 Tour de France – did not finish
- 1909 Tour de France – did not finish
- 1910 Tour de France – 19th place
- 1912 Tour de France – 30th place
- 1913 Tour de France – did not finish
After the 1904 Tour de France, some cyclists were disqualified, most notably the top four cyclists of the original overall classification, Maurice Garin, Lucien Pothier, César Garin and Hippolyte Aucouturier. Maurice Garin was originally banned for two years and Pothier for life, so they were ineligible to start the 1905 Tour de France. Of these four, only Aucouturier who had been “warned” and had a “reprimand inflicted” on him (with a name like Hippolyte Aucouturier I can understand why he only received a reprimand. Sheesh. I would like to have him in my posse, such that it is barren of posse members right now. When anybody would say who the hell is this guy, I would yell out, “it’s Hippolyte Aucouturier bitches!”. Typing out his name once, took me five minutes to acomplish.), started the 1905 Tour.
Because these disqualifications had almost put an end to the Tour de France, the 1905 event had been changed in important ways, to make the race easier to supervise. The first cyclist to cross the finish line received 1 point. Other cyclists received one point more than the cyclist who passed the line directly before him, plus an additional point for every five minutes between them, with a maximum of ten points. In this way, a cyclist could not get more than 11 points more than the cyclist that crossed the finish line just before him.
The result for the first seven cyclists in the first stage was:
- Louis Trousselier 11h 25′ — 1 1
- Jean-Baptiste Dortignacq +3′ 3′ 1 2
- René Pottier +4′ 1′ 1 3
- Hippolyte Aucouturier +26′ 22′ 5 8
- Henri Cornet +26′ 0′ 1 9
- Augustin Ringeval +1h 40′ 74′ 11 20 (Tip o’ the chapeau my man, tip o’ the chapeau)
- Emile Georget +2h 40′ 60′ 11 31
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