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Challenge Desgrange-Colombo
The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was a season-long road bicycle racing competition between 1948 and 1958. Named after long-time Tour de France director Henri Desgrange and Giro d'Italia director Emilio Colombo, the competition was organised by the newspapers "L'Équipe", "La Gazzetta dello Sport", "Het Nieuwsblad-Sportwereld" and "Les Sports". It marked early co-operation between L'Équipe and La Gazzetta dello Sport which lasts to this day.
Riders' performances in the Tour de France
three victories in the Interwar period.
History Ardennes Classic.
Liège–Bastogne–Liège had some interruptions during World War II, but was again a calendar-fixture as from 1945 and began to attract some of the stars of European cycling. In 1951 the race was added to the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, the competition that combined cycling's greatest races at the time. Swiss Ferdinand Kübler won the race in 1951 and 1952. Belgian favourite Raymond Impanis became the race's eternal runner-up, with four second places