Gilles Coustellier

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Gilles Coustellier
2010 UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships - Mont-Sainte-Anne - Gilles Coustellier.jpg
Personal information
Full nameGilles Coustellier
Born (1986-05-31) 31 May 1986 (age 37) [1]
Martigues, France [2]
Team information
Current teamScorpio [3]
Discipline Trials
Major wins
World Championships
26-inch trials (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014)

Gilles Coustellier (born 13 May 1986 in Martigues, France) is a French mountain bike trials cyclist. [1] He specialises in 26-inch trials but has also competed in 20-inch trials. [2]

Coustellier was UCI junior world champion in the 20-inch category in 2002 and then in the 26-inch category in 2003. In the UCI elite 26-inch category he has been world champion five times. Competing with the French team he was team trials world champion in 2011. [1]

Gilles is the younger brother of Giacomo Coustellier, who is also a trials rider. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mountain Bike - Gilles COUSTELLIER". the-sports.org. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Gilles Coustellier site official". gillescoustellier.fr. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. "Nouveau partenaire – Clean Trials". gillescoustellier.fr. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. "U.S. Trials Team saw success in Europe". usacycling.org. Retrieved 4 September 2016.