Allan Peiper
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Allan Peiper is a former Australia
n road cyclist, who competed in five Tour De France
races, with the last being the 1992 Tour de France
. He is now a directeur sportif
with Team Columbia.
Born in Alexandra, Victoria
, Australia, Peiper had a tough upbringing, his father was a violent drunk and his mother worked herself to exhaustion to make ends meet. He disliked school, and would sign the register before skipping off to go training. He won the Australian national junior pursuit championship, and from there on his career progressed.
Once he started working, Peiper saved his wages from his factory job in order to travel to Europe. At the age of 16, he headed for Ghent
, Belgium
, where he lived in a shared room of a butchers shop, before going to live with the family of Eddy Planckaert
.
In 1982 he joined the ACBB (Athletic Club de Boulogne Billencourt), Europe’s most successful sports club
. Outstanding performances followed, which led to him being offered a professional contract with the Peugeot cycling team
. At Peugeot
he raced alongside fellow former ACBB riders Sean Yates
, Stephen Roche
and Phil Anderson
. After three seasons with Peugeot
he joined the Dutch
Panasonic team. In 1991 he then joined the Belgium
team Tulip Computers.
He has been described as "a typical gutsy, attacking Australian roadman with an impressive professional palmarés".
1978
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
He has played a mentoring role in the careers of several riders, including the highly successful road-sprinter Mark Cavendish.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n road cyclist, who competed in five Tour De France
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
races, with the last being the 1992 Tour de France
1992 Tour de France
The 1992 Tour de France was the 79th Tour de France, taking place July 4 to July 26, 1992. The total race distance was 21 stages over 3983 km, with riders averaging 39.504 km/h...
. He is now a directeur sportif
Directeur sportif
A directeur sportif is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event...
with Team Columbia.
Born in Alexandra, Victoria
Alexandra, Victoria
Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway and Maroondah Highway , 26 kilometres west of Eildon, in the Shire of Murrindindi local government area...
, Australia, Peiper had a tough upbringing, his father was a violent drunk and his mother worked herself to exhaustion to make ends meet. He disliked school, and would sign the register before skipping off to go training. He won the Australian national junior pursuit championship, and from there on his career progressed.
Once he started working, Peiper saved his wages from his factory job in order to travel to Europe. At the age of 16, he headed for Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, where he lived in a shared room of a butchers shop, before going to live with the family of Eddy Planckaert
Eddy Planckaert
Eddy Planckaert is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. In 1988, Planckaert enjoyed perhaps his best year by capturing the green jersey at the 1988 Tour de France and winning the Ronde van Vlaanderen...
.
In 1982 he joined the ACBB (Athletic Club de Boulogne Billencourt), Europe’s most successful sports club
Sports club
A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...
. Outstanding performances followed, which led to him being offered a professional contract with the Peugeot cycling team
Peugeot (cycling team)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on www.cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon.-History:...
. At Peugeot
Peugeot (cycling team)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on www.cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon.-History:...
he raced alongside fellow former ACBB riders Sean Yates
Sean Yates
Sean Yates is an English former professional cyclist and head Directeur Sportif at Team Sky.-Career:Yates competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, finishing sixth in the 4,000m individual pursuit. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics...
, Stephen Roche
Stephen Roche
Stephen Roche is a retired professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming only the second cyclist to win the Triple Crown of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia stage races, plus the World road race championship...
and Phil Anderson
Phil Anderson
Philip Grant Anderson OAM is an Australian former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.-Origins:...
. After three seasons with Peugeot
Peugeot (cycling team)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on www.cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon.-History:...
he joined the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
Panasonic team. In 1991 he then joined the Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
team Tulip Computers.
He has been described as "a typical gutsy, attacking Australian roadman with an impressive professional palmarés".
Palmarés
1977- 3rd UCI Track World Championships, Points race, Juniors
1978
- 2nd UCI Track World Championships, Points race, Juniors
1981
- 1st Horsham (AUS)
1982
- 3rd Circuit Franco-Belge, Wattrelos
- 1st Stage 2b, Quiévrain
- 3rd* Paris - Roubaix (amateurs 2nd* winner disqualified for doping)
- 3rd Stage 3a, Tour du Hainaut Occidental, Amateurs, Peruwelz (BEL)
- 2nd Omloop van de Grensstreek (BEL)
1983
- 3rd Ninove (BEL)
- 2nd Mandel - Leie - Schelde, Meulebeke (BEL)
- 1st Harrogate
- 2nd Paris, Paris
- 2nd Ninove (b) (BEL)
- 2nd Kelloggs criterium : Manchester (GBR)
1984
- 1st Kelloggs criterium : Birmingham (GBR)
- 3rd* Kelloggs criterium : Bristol (GBR)* Sid Barras punctured in the bunch with 5 laps to go & rejoined race in the 2 man break (peiper jones) with 3 laps to go, after never being in it.
- 1st Prologue, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 3rd Mijl van Mares (NED)
- 1st Postgirot Open (SWE)
- 2nd Prologue, Göteborg
- 2nd Stage 1, Varberg
- 1st Stage 8b, Norrköping
- 1st Tour de PicardieTour de PicardieThe Tour de Picardie is a professional multi-stage cycle road race held annually in Picardy, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour....
(FRA) - 1st Prologue, Étoile de Bessèges, Salles du Gardon (FRA)
- 2nd Prologue, Tour Méditerranéen, Béziers (FRA)
- 3rd Prologue, Tour de FranceTour de FranceThe Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
, Noisy-le-Sec - 3rd Stage 1, Tour de FranceTour de FranceThe Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
, Saint-Denis
1985
- 3rd GP de Cannes (FRA)
- 1st Kelloggs criterium : Nottingham (GBR)
- 2nd Prologue, Postgirot Open, Göteborg (SWE)
- 1st Prologue, Paris - Nice, Nanterre (FRA)
1986
- 1st Kelloggs criterium : Birmingham (GBR)
- 2nd Kelloggs criterium : Cardiff (GBR)
- 1st GP Impanis (BEL)
- 3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen - Koolskamp (BEL)
- 3rd Mechelen (BEL)
- 2nd Prologue, Ronde van België, Bornem
- 1st Stage 4a, Ronde van België, Spa
- 3rd Stage 4b, Ronde van België, Spa
- was time penalised (20min) for missing a doping test in error. This was later rescinded but the race penalty remained.
- 1st Zwevezele (BEL)
1987
- 1st Circuit des Frontières (BEL)
- 2nd Cork (IRL)
- 1st GP d'Isbergues (FRA)
- 1st Stage 1, Kellogg's Tour of BritainTour of BritainThe Tour of Britain is a cycle race, conducted over several stages, in which participants race from place to place across parts of Great Britain....
, Newcastle - 2nd Kloosterzande (NED)
- 2nd Omloop Leiedal (BEL)
- 2nd Stage 1, Tour de SuisseTour de SuisseThe Tour de Suisse is a UCI World Tour stage race held annually in June. The race debuted in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship. With the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is a proving ground for the Tour de France, and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...
, Rugell/Lie
1988
- 1st Stadsprijs GeraardsbergenStadsprijs GeraardsbergenThe Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August or September in Geraardsbergen, Belgium. The race is a professional cycling race, but is not listed as a UCI event...
(BEL) - 1st Stage 5, Tour of IrelandTour of IrelandThe Tour of Ireland is a bicycle stage race held in August. The first race debuted in 1953 and ran until 1957. It was revived in 1965 and ran until 1985. In 1985 the 5 day Nissan International Classic took over as the Tour of Ireland. This lasted for 8 years until 1992...
, Dublin - 2nd Woerden (NED)
- 3rd Prologue, Tour Méditerranéen, Béziers (FRA)
- 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, Harelbeke (BEL)
- 2nd Driedaagse van De Panne (BEL)
- 3rd Stage 1b, Herzele
- 3rd Ronde van België
- 2nd Stage 3b, Brugge
1989
- 3rd Driedaagse van De Panne (BEL)
- 3rd Stage 1b, Herzele
- 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (ITA)
1990
- 1st Stage 14, Giro d'ItaliaGiro d'ItaliaThe Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...
, Klagenfurt - 1st Wetteren (BEL)
- 2nd Stage 1, Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, Barcelona
1991
- 1st Malderen (BEL)
- 3rd Stage 4a, Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia, Mazarron (ESP)
- 2nd Stage 4, Tour of Luxembourg, Bertrange
Team Management
Allan Peiper has been involved in the running of several professional cycling teams, including T-Mobile, High-Road, and Columbia.He has played a mentoring role in the careers of several riders, including the highly successful road-sprinter Mark Cavendish.