Armand de Las Cuevas (26 June 1968 – 2 August 2018) was a French racing cyclist.

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Armand de Las Cuevas

Las Cuevas at the 1993 Paris–Nice
Personal information
Full name	Armand de Las Cuevas
Born	(1968-06-26)26 June 1968 Troyes, France
Died	2 August 2018(2018-08-02) (aged 50) Réunion, France
Team information
Discipline	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist
Professional teams
1989–1993	Reynolds
1994–1995	Castorama
1996	Petit Casino
1997–1998	Banesto
1999	Amica Chips–Costa de Almeria
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (1994) Stage races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1998) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1991) Clásica de San Sebastián (1994)
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  France World Championships 1990 Maebashi Individual pursuit

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He won prestigious races such as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Clásica de San Sebastián. A time trial specialist, he won many prologues and individual time trials in the early 1990s. In both the 1992 and 1994 Tour de France he finished in the top 5 of the prologue as well as the other ITT's. He won a stage in the 1994 Giro d'Italia, an ITT, and placed in the top 5 of both other time trials. He also rode strongly enough to come in 9th on general classification.^[1] In the 1994 Tour de Romandie he won the prologue and finished 2nd overall.

He also competed in track pursuit racing, and was bronze medalist in the discipline at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Japan.

De Las Cuevas retired to Réunion in 1999, where he founded a cycling school. He committed suicide there in 2018.^[2]