Jeff Pierce (cyclist)
# Jeff Pierce (cyclist)

Jeff Pierce (born August 28, 1958) is a retired American professional road bicycle racer. At the 1987 Tour de France, Pierce gained fame by becoming the third American (after Davis Phinney and Greg LeMond) to win a stage in the Tour de France, winning the final stage on the Champs-Élysées from the breakaway while riding for Team 7-Eleven.

In 1991, Jeff Pierce appeared in a video with Olympic cyclist John Howard, entitled John Howard's Lessons in Cycling.

After his retirement from competitive cycling, Pierce served as USA Cycling's Vice President of Athletics.

He was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2020.

## Major results

### 1980

    1st Overall Tour of Kansas City

### 1985

    1st Overall Tour de Berlin
    1st Nevada City Classic
    1st Stage 10 Coors Classic

### 1986

    1st Overall Vuelta a Bisbee
       1st Stages 2, 3, & 5
    3rd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
    6th Overall Coors Classic

### 1987

    1st Stage 25 Tour de France
    1st Overall Tour of Texas
       1st Prologue
    1st Athens Twilight Criterium
    2nd Overall Coors Classic

### 1988

    1st Stages 1 & 6 Coors Classic

### 1989

    1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country

### 1994

    2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
       1st Stage 2
