title: Jeff Pierce (cyclist)
text: # Jeff Pierce (cyclist)
  
  Jeff Pierce (born August 28, 1958) is a retired American professional road bicycle racer. At the 1987 Tour de France, Pierce gained fame by becoming the third American (after Davis Phinney and Greg LeMond) to win a stage in the Tour de France, winning the final stage on the Champs-Élysées from the breakaway while riding for Team 7-Eleven.
  
  In 1991, Jeff Pierce appeared in a video with Olympic cyclist John Howard, entitled John Howard's Lessons in Cycling.
  
  After his retirement from competitive cycling, Pierce served as USA Cycling's Vice President of Athletics.
  
  He was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2020.
  
  ## Major results
  
  ### 1980
  
      1st Overall Tour of Kansas City
  
  ### 1985
  
      1st Overall Tour de Berlin
      1st Nevada City Classic
      1st Stage 10 Coors Classic
  
  ### 1986
  
      1st Overall Vuelta a Bisbee
         1st Stages 2, 3, & 5
      3rd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
      6th Overall Coors Classic
  
  ### 1987
  
      1st Stage 25 Tour de France
      1st Overall Tour of Texas
         1st Prologue
      1st Athens Twilight Criterium
      2nd Overall Coors Classic
  
  ### 1988
  
      1st Stages 1 & 6 Coors Classic
  
  ### 1989
  
      1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country
  
  ### 1994
  
      2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
         1st Stage 2
  