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Twenty years after Opperman’s victory in 1931, Marice Diot, the victor of the seventh edition of Paris - Brest - Paris covered the 1200 kilometers of the route in 38 hours 55 minutes and 45 seconds. This was ten hours faster than the earlier winner.
The courageous rider Robert Chapatte had given the peloton difficulties at the race’s start, taking a lead of a quarter of an hour at the Brest turnaround at the beginning of the second night. The Parisian, who was hampered by a groin injury, kept up his solitary break until, close to Morlaix, he stopped and abandonned the race after a misunderstanding with his handlers. It was at Vitre that the two favourites, Diot and Muller, began an offensive. Twenty-two kilometers from the finish, Muller flatted, but Diot waited for him because he wanted to play out the race for victory at the Parc des Princes. At the finish line, he recorded the victory by a half-wheel.
Translated from the website of the Cyclo Touristes Maurepas
by Ken Dobb
January 19, 2003
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ctmaurepas/articles/pbp.htm
http://www.randonneursontario.ca/history/phprace.html