Frédéric Guesdon

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**Frédéric Guesdon**
Personal information
Full name	Frédéric Guesdon
Date of birth	October 14, 1971 (age 35)
Country	France
Height	1.85 m
Weight	73 kg
Team information
Current team	Française des Jeux
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1995 1996 1997-	Le Groupement Polti Française des Jeux
Major wins
Paris-Roubaix (1997) Paris-Tours (2006)

Infobox last updated on:
January 12, 2007

Frédéric Guesdon (born October 14, 1971 in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Bretagne) is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Française des Jeux. Guesdon turned professional in 1995 with the French Le Groupement team and moved on to the Polti team in 1996, where he scored eleventh place at Paris-Roubaix and third place at the French championship. Guesdon had his breakthrough year in 1997. Having signed with the new Française des Jeux team, he scored an early victory for the team in the prestigous spring monument Paris-Roubaix. Guesdon also took victories at the Classic Haribo and a stage in the Tour du Limousin. Guesdon had to wait until 2000 for his next major victory, a stage in the Dauphiné Libéré, a feat he repeated in 2002. Despite a complete lack of victories between this win and his next win, over three-and-a-half years later in the 2006 Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Guesdon remained loyal to Française des Jeux and Française des Jeux to him. This paid dividends when Guesdon won the 2006 UCI ProTour race Paris-Tours, his first ProTour victory and the first overall ProTour victory both for Française des Jeux and by a French rider since the inception of the competition in 2005.

1 Palmarès
2 External links

[edit] Palmarès

[edit] Major results

2006

1st, Paris-Tours
2nd, Overall, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimba, Gabon (2.2, UCI Africa Tour)
- 1st, Prologue (ITT, Circuit dans Libreville)
- 2nd, Stage 2, (Bifoun - Lambaréné, 78 km)
3rd, GP d'Isbergues
4th, Overall, Tour du Limousin
7th, Paris-Roubaix

2004

2nd, GP d'Isbergues

2002

1st, Stage 5, Dauphiné Libéré

2001

1st, King of the Mountains classification, Tour Mediterraneen

2000

1st, Stage 1, Dauphiné Libéré
1st, Stage 1, Giro Della Provincia Di Lucca

1999

1st, Stage 3, Tour De L'Ain

1997

1st, Paris-Roubaix
1st, Classic Haribo
1st, Stage 2, Tour du Limousin

[edit] Tour de France record

2004: 129th overall
2001: 124th overall
2000: 116th overall
1999: 106th overall
1998: 67th overall
1997: 111th overall
1996: 108th overall

[edit] Giro d'Italia record

2003: DNF (Stage 18)

[edit] Vuelta a España record

2005: DNF (Stage 11)

[edit] External links

Riders on Française des Jeux
Ludovic Auger \| Sandy Casar \| Sébastien Chavanel \| Carlos Da Cruz \| Mickael Delage \| Christophe Detilloux \| Rémy Di Gregorio \| Arnaud Gerard \| Philippe Gilbert \| Timothy Gudsell \| Frédéric Guesdon \| Lilian Jegou \| Sébastien Joly \| Mathieu Ladagnous \| Johan Lindgren \| Thomas Lövkvist \| Thierry Marichal \| Bradley McGee \| Ian Mcleod \| Christophe Mengin \| Cyrille Monnerais \| Francis Mourey \| Fabrice Patanchon \| Jérémy Roy \| Benoît Vaugrenard \| Jussi Veikkanen
Manager
Marc Madiot