Arnaud Tournant

Arnaud Tournant

Tournant at the 2011 Six Days of Grenoble
Personal information
Full name	Arnaud Tournant
Born	(1978-04-05) 5 April 1978[1] Roubaix, France
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Weight	88 kg (194 lb; 13.9 st)[2]
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider & Manager
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
1997–2008	Cofidis
Managerial team(s)
2009–	Cofidis
Medal record Representing  France Men's track cycling Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team sprint 2004 Athens Track time trial 2008 Beijing Team sprint 2004 Athens Team sprint World Championship 1997 Perth Team sprint 1998 Bordeaux Kilo 1998 Bordeaux Team sprint 1999 Berlin Kilo 1999 Berlin Team sprint 2000 Manchester Kilo 2000 Manchester Team sprint 2001 Antwerp Kilo 2001 Antwerp Sprint 2001 Antwerp Team sprint 2004 Melbourne Team sprint 2006 Bordeaux Team sprint 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team sprint 2008 Manchester Team sprint 2002 Ballerup Kilo 2003 Stuttgart Team sprint 2004 Melbourne Kilo 2003 Stuttgart Kilo 2006 Bordeaux Keirin

Arnaud Tournant (born 5 April 1978) is a French track cyclist. He has won 14 World Championships and won a gold, silver and a bronze at the Summer Olympics.

Biography

Tournant was born in Roubaix, near the border with Belgium, and currently lives in Fontenay-sous-Bois.^[1] He began making his mark as an international rider whilst still in the junior ranks, winning the silver medal at the Junior Track World Championships in 1996.^[3]

World record

Tournant is the world record holder (at altitude) for the Kilo (1000m time trial). He first set the record in Mexico in 2000, with a time of 1:00.148. In October the following year, at the age of 23, Tournant became the first man to go under the one-minute mark, breaking his own world record with a new time of 58.875 seconds set at La Paz, Bolivia.^[4][5]

Chris Hoy came to within 0.005 seconds of Tournant's record on his second attempt, but failed to beat it. Hoy said he could not go any faster, and had even more respect for Tournant and his talents.

2004

Tournant was a member of the French team sprint squad at the 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, this was the sixth time they won a gold medal with Tournant. He also picked up a silver medal in the Kilo.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tournant won a silver medal in the kilo, and a bronze in the team sprint.

Tournant refused to speak at a post-race press conference at the Olympics, until Stephane Mandard, a journalist for Le Monde newspaper, and an anti-doping campaigner, left the room. Mandard's reporting of the Cofidis doping scandal had left scars, despite the fact that Tournant had not been involved. At the press conference, Tournant held his ground and after a long pause, Mandard walked out.^[3]

2008 and retirement

Tournant was a member of the team sprint squad (with Grégory Baugé, Kévin Sireau and Mickaël Bourgain) which won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He retired after these Olympic Games and was made a Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite on 14 November 2008.^[6] However, he will continue to be involved in cycling as he has been named as the new directeur sportif of the Cofidis track team.^[6][7]

Major results

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arnaud Tournant.

• Arnaud Tournant at Cycling Archives
• Profile on databaseolympics.com

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's sprint

1895: Robert Protin 1896: Paul Bourillon 1897: Willy Arend 1898: George A. Banker 1899: Marshall Taylor 1900: Edmond Jacquelin 1901–03: Thorvald Ellegaard 1904: Iver Lawson 1905: Gabriel Poulain 1906: Thorvald Ellegaard 1907: Emile Friol 1908: Thorvald Ellegaard 1909: Victor Dupre 1910: Emile Friol 1911: Thorvald Ellegaard 1912: Frank Louis Kramer 1913: Walter Rütt 1920: Bob Spears 1921–24: Piet Moeskops 1925: Ernst Kaufmann 1926: Piet Moeskops 1927–30: Lucien Michard 1931: Willy Hansen 1932–37: Jef Scherens 1938: Arie van Vliet 1939: Medal not awarded 1946: Jan Derksen 1947: Jef Scherens 1948: Arie van Vliet 1949–51: Reg Harris 1952: Oscar Plattner 1953: Arie van Vliet 1954: Reg Harris 1955–56: Antonio Maspes 1957: Jan Derksen 1958: Michel Rousseau 1959–62: Antonio Maspes 1963: Sante Gaiardoni 1964: Antonio Maspes 1965–66: Giuseppe Beghetto 1967: Patrick Sercu 1968: Giuseppe Beghetto 1969: Patrick Sercu 1970: Gordon Johnson 1971: Leijn Loevesijn 1972–73: Robert Van Lancker 1974: Peder Pedersen 1975–76: John Nicholson 1977–86: Koichi Nakano 1987: Nobuyuki Tawara 1988: Stephen Pate 1989: Claudio Golinelli 1990: Michael Hübner 1991: Carey Hall Medal not awarded 1992: Michael Hübner 1993: Gary Neiwand 1994: Marty Nothstein 1995: Darryn Hill 1996–98: Florian Rousseau 1999: Laurent Gané 2000: Jan van Eijden 2001: Arnaud Tournant 2002: Sean Eadie 2003: Laurent Gané 2004: Theo Bos 2005: René Wolff 2006–07: Theo Bos 2008: Chris Hoy 2009–10: Grégory Baugé 2011: Jason Kenny 2012: Grégory Baugé 2013: Stefan Bötticher 2014: François Pervis 2015: Grégory Baugé 2016: Jason Kenny 2017: Denis Dmitriev

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team sprint

1995: Germany (Jens Fiedler, Michael Hübner, Jan van Eijden) 1996: Australia (Darryn Hill, Shane Kelly, Gary Neiwand) 1997, 1998: France (Vincent Le Quellec, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant) 1999, 2000, 2001: France (Laurent Gané, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant) 2002: Great Britain (Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jamie Staff) 2003: Germany (Carsten Bergemann, Jens Fiedler, René Wolff) 2004: France (Mickaël Bourgain, Laurent Gané, Arnaud Tournant) 2005: Great Britain (Chris Hoy, Jamie Staff, Jason Queally) 2006, 2007: France (Grégory Baugé, Mickaël Bourgain, Arnaud Tournant) 2008: France (Grégory Baugé, Kévin Sireau, Arnaud Tournant) 2009: France (Grégory Baugé, Mickaël Bourgain, Kévin Sireau) 2010: Germany (Robert Förstemann, Maximilian Levy, Stefan Nimke) 2011: Germany (René Enders, Maximilian Levy, Stefan Nimke) 2012: Australia (Shane Perkins, Scott Sunderland, Matthew Glaetzer) 2013: Germany (René Enders, Stefan Bötticher, Maximilian Levy) 2014: New Zealand (Ethan Mitchell, Sam Webster, Edward Dawkins) 2015: France (Grégory Baugé, Michaël D'Almeida, Kévin Sireau) 2016, 2017: New Zealand (Ethan Mitchell, Sam Webster, Edward Dawkins)