Er startete zwischen 1983 und 1993 zehnmal bei der Tour de France, dabei erreichte er sechsmal Paris.

Insgesamt gewann er neun Etappen beim wichtigsten Sein berühmtester Auftritt bei der Tour war aber wohl sein zweiter Rang im Jahre Fignon wurde während seiner Karriere zweimal positiv auf Neben seinen Erfolgen bei der Tour konnte Fignon 1989 auch den Fignon hatte eine sehr nüchterne Einstellung zu seiner Tätigkeit als Radprofi. Laurent Fignon winning the final time trial in the 1983 Tour de FranceLaurent Fignon was born in Paris on August 12, 1960. He grew up about 20 miles away in Tournan-en-Brie at a time before it was just another bedroom community near the City of Light, and still had some woods in which the youngster and his mates could play out their small adventures.He wore his first pair of glasses at age six, but never considered bicycle racing until he was fifteen. Fignon’s initial races proved successful, and he joined the local club, La Pédale of Combs-la-Ville, in 1976.Within a couple of years, the young Fignon’s fitness and racing savvy had progressed to the point where he won eighteen of the forty races he entered.With little ambition to attend college or do any work, except for riding his bike, Fignon signed up for military service in October 1979. He was sent to the Joinville detachment, which catered to aspiring athletes—the same place were a young By 1981, Fignon was racing at the top amateur level; he was a member of the winning French national time trial team, and had won more than 30 races. At the Tour of Corsica, he got noticed by Cyrille Guimard, famous director of the powerful Renault professional team, and was signed to ride for them beginning next year. The contract was signed early in the morning of the final stage of the 1981 Tour de France.Also agreeing to ride with the squad was Fignon’s friend from the amateur ranks, Pascal Jules. By signing with Renault, Fignon and Jules would find themselves riding alongside not only Fignon’s professional career got off to a very good start in 1982 when he won the Critérium International stage race, one of the first events he entered.  Based on his early-season performances, Fignon was selected to ride in the Giro d’Italia, where he wore the pink leader’s jersey for a day and finished a credible fifteenth.In 1983 Fignon, then only a second-year pro, started the Tour de France as co-leader of the weakened Renault along with Marc Madiot. Missing from the team was Bernard Hinault, who had suffered a season-ending knee injury while winning the recent Vuelta a España (with is victory, the Badger had become the only rider to win each of the three grand tours twice).During the tour’s tenth stage in the Pyrenees, Laurent Fignon finished seventh on the day, which moved him into second overall, 4:30 behind Peugeot’s Pascal Simon, who’d finished third to take the yellow jersey. Simon’s luck took a turn for the worse the very next day, when he crashed, suffering a hairline fracture of the collarbone. Unable to climb, Simon would continue on for five more stages in sweltering heat before abandoning during the seventeenth stage, where the lead passed to Fignon, who traded his young rider’s white jersey for the yellow one, which he later saved with in a furious chase of Peter Winnen up Though Fignon had won a stage and joined a very select club of riders who’d won the Tour on their first try, the pundits were not impressed with the Frenchman’s ‘easy’ four-minute win over Arroyo; “wait till next year,” they said, when Hinault, who’d yet to be beaten in a major tour, would be back and LeMond (who would soon win both the world championship in Switzerland and the season-long Super Prestige Pernod Trophy) would be there.Laurent Fignon, who’d just become the race’s second-youngest postwar winner at 22 years, 11 months, was not worried, and traded in his Renault for a Ferrari. Barteau war so weit hinten in dieser Phase, dass Fignon der neue Führer wurde. In 1981, Fignon rode the Tour of Corsica which allowed amateur cyclists to ride along with professional riders. Er ist der ehemalige FICP Nummer 1 der Welt im Jahr 1989. August 2010) war ein Französisch professionellen Radrennfahrer, der die gewonnen Tour de France in den Jahren 1983 und 1984 und der Giro d'Italia im Jahr 1989. At first the annual event went smoothly, with Fignon saying that in 2000 and 2001 Paris–Nice “was a fine sports event.” But then, says Fignon, the powerful owners of the Tour de France began to interfere with the organizing of his race, by employing tactics such as outbidding him for stage cities, which hurt him financially.In the end, he was forced to sell the event to his adversaries, and another business venture came to an end. "Grand Tours general classification results timelineGrand Tours general classification results timeline