Roger Walkowiak was a French road bicycle racer who won the 1956 Tour de France. He was a professional rider from 1950 until 1960. He died on 6 February 2017 at the age of 89.
André Darrigade is a retired French professional road bicycle racer between 1951 and 1966. Darrigade, a road sprinter won the 1959 World Championship and 22 stages of the Tour de France. Five of those were on the first day, a record.
Artūras Kasputis is a retired track and road racing cyclist from Lithuania, who represented the USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's 4.000 team pursuit, alongside Viacheslav Ekimov, Dmitry Nelyubin and Gintautas Umaras. During the Soviet time he trained at Dynamo sports society in Klaipėda. He was a professional road cyclist from 1992 to 2002, and afterwards became a cycling manager in the professional circuit.
Bernard Gauthier was a French road racing cyclist, who was professional from 1947 to 1961. He won the Bordeaux–Paris road race on four occasions.
Hubert Dupont is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the R.A.G.T. Semences and AG2R La Mondiale teams. His sporting career began with AC Lyon Vaise.
Christophe Riblon is a French former road and track racing cyclist who competed as a professional for the AG2R La Mondiale team for 13 seasons between 2005 and 2017.
René Privat was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1952 to 1962 with 19 wins which included the classic Milan–San Remo. He also won three stages in the 1957 Tour de France and one stage in the 1960 Tour de France.
Francis Pélissier was a French professional road racing cyclist from Paris. He was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier, and the older brother of Tour de France stage winner Charles Pélissier. He won several classic cycle races like Paris–Tours, Bordeaux–Paris and Grand Prix Wolber. He also won the French National Road Race Championship three times as well as two stages at the Tour de France.
Julien Simon is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie.
Louis Rostollan is a French former professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1958 until 1967, winning the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1958 and the Tour de Romandie in 1960 and 1961.
St. Michel–Auber93 is a UCI Continental cycling team based in France. The team is managed by Stephane Javalet with the help of Guy Gallopin and Stephan Gaudry.
Blel Kadri is a French professional road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam AG2R La Mondiale. He is of Algerian descent.
Arthur Vichot is a French professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels–Vital Concept. He is the nephew of Frédéric Vichot, who won stages in the Tour de France in 1984 and 1985.
Arkéa–Samsic is a Professional Continental cycling team based in Rennes, France that participates in UCI Continental Circuits races and UCI World Tour races when receiving a wild card. The team was founded in 2005 and in 2013 the main sponsor became Séché Environnement, a French waste treatment company.
Alexandre Geniez is a French professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam AG2R La Mondiale.
Cult Energy Pro Cycling was a professional road bicycle racing team licensed in Denmark, that competed in the UCI Continental Circuits. It was established in 2000 under the name of "Cycling Horsens".
Felbermayr–Simplon Wels is a UCI Continental team founded in 2004. It is based in Austria and it participates in UCI Continental Circuits races.
Damien Nazon is a former French racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1998 Tour de France. Nazon took a total of 33 victories during his career, including stage wins in the Dauphiné Libéré, the Grand Prix du Midi Libre, the Critérium International and the Tour of Belgium. Nazon rode for the Castorama team as a stagiaire in the autumn of 1995, before turning professional with Banesto in 1996. He then rode for Française des Jeux for three years, Bonjour for four and ended his professional career in 2005 after two years with Crédit Agricole.
Lilian Calmejane is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie. He is best known for winning stages at the Tour de France in 2017 and the Vuelta a España in 2016.
The Tour de la Provence is an early-season bicycle stage race in the Provence region of France. It is organized by southern French newspaper La Provence, which serves as the race's title sponsor for its first three years. It is held in February, as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour calendar.The race will become part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020. La Provence has entrusted the organization of the event to Serge Pascal, who also organizes the Tour du Haut Var. The inaugural edition of 2016 was won by Thomas Voeckler.
