title: Anatole Novak
text: # Anatole Novak
  
  Anatole Novak (12 February 1937 – 5 January 2022) was a French professional road bicycle racer.
  
  ## Career
  
  Novak won a stage in the 1961 Tour de France, and was the Lanterne rouge (last finishing cyclist) in the 1964 Tour de France.
  
  ## Personal life and death
  
  Novak died in Pierre-Châtel on 5 January 2022, at the age of 84.
  
  ## Major results
  
  ### 1956
  
      France National Road Championship (Independents)
  
  ### 1959
  
      Saint-Brieuc
  
  ### 1961
  
      GP Vincennes
      Riom
      Tour de France:
         Winner stage 4
      Grand Prix du Parisien
  
  ### 1962
  
      Gap
  
  ### 1964
  
      Ambert
  
  ### 1965
  
      Tour de l'Herault
  
  ### 1966
  
      Saint-Vallier
      Paris–Luxembourg
  
  ### 1967
  
      Boucles des Hauts de Seine
  
  ### 1969
  
      Toury
      Sévignac
  
  ### 1970
  
      Vuelta a España:
         Winner stage 10
  