Libre 2nd Circuit des Frontières 9th Genoa–Nice 1966 1st Eschborn–Frankfurt 1st Stage 2a Tour de l'Oise 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1967 1st Stage 14 Tour de France 2nd Paris–Tours 5th Tour of Flanders 7th Dwars door België 1968 1st Stage 19 Tour de France 2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise 2nd Grand Prix de Denain 9th GP Fayt-le-Franc 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1969 Tour de France 1st Stages 18 & 19 1st Stage 1b Four Days of Dunkirk 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 7th Tour of Flanders 9th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke 9th Ronde van Limburg 1970 1st Manx Trophy 2nd Circuit des Frontières 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies 6th Bordeaux–Paris 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Stage 3 7th De Kustpijl 1971 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Stage 5b Four Days of Dunkirk 2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 10th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 1972 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg 3rd Paris–Roubaix 8th Paris–Bourges 9th Paris–Tours 9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 1973 Tour de France 1st Stages 11 & 19 10th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 1974 1st Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Stages 1b & 3 1st Gent–Wevelgem 1st Paris–Bourges 1st Stage 13 Tour de France 2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude 1st Stage 3 4th Züri-Metzgete 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1975 1st Stage 8 Tour de France 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1978 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Stage 5b 10th Overall Tour de l'Oise 1980 8th Nokere Koerse Tour de France Stage Wins 1967 - Stage 14 - Carpentras – Sète – Hoban was allowed to win after the death of Tom Simpson on the previous stage. 1968 - Stage 19 - Grenoble – Sallanches – a rarity in that Hoban won a mountain stage, not a sprint. 1969 - Stage 18 - Mourenx – Bordeaux 1969 - Stage 19 - Bordeaux - Brive-la-Gaillarde – the first Briton to win successive stages of the Tour. 1973 – Stage 11 - Montpellier - Argelès-sur-Mer 1973 - Stage 19 - Bourges – Versaille 1974 - Stage 13 - Avignon – Montpellier 1975 - Stage 8 - Angoulême - Bordeaux Other career highlights He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Hoban also won two stages of the 1964 Vuelta a España and the 1974 Gent–Wevelgem, where he finished ahead of Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck. In the ’Monument’ Classics, his