Frédéric Guesdon

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Frédéric Guesdon
Personal information
Full name Frédéric Guesdon
Date of birth October 14, 1971 (1971-10-14) (age 36)
Country Flag of France 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 prestigious 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.

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[edit] Palmarès

[edit] Major results

1997
1st, Paris-Roubaix
1st, Classic Haribo
1st, Stage 2, Tour du Limousin
1999
1st, Stage 3, Tour De L'Ain
2000
1st, Stage 1, Dauphiné Libéré
1st, Stage 1, Giro Della Provincia Di Lucca
2001
1st, King of the Mountains classification, Tour Mediterraneen
2002
1st, Stage 5, Dauphiné Libéré
2004
2nd, GP d'Isbergues
2006
1st, Paris-Tours
2nd, Overall, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimba, Gabon (2.2, UCI Africa Tour)
1st, Prologue (ITT, Circuit dans Libreville)
3rd, GP d'Isbergues
2008
1st, Tro-Bro Léon

[edit] Tour de France record

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

[edit] Giro d'Italia record

  • 2003: DNF (Stage 18)

[edit] Vuelta a España record

  • 2005: DNF (Stage 11)

[edit] External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Johan Museeuw
Winner of Paris-Roubaix
1997
Succeeded by
Franco Ballerini


Persondata
NAME Guesdon, Frédéric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971-10-14
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Bretagne, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH


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