Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Yannick Talabardon |
Born | Paris, France | 6 July 1981
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Classics Specialist/Climber |
Professional teams | |
2002–2004 | BigMat–Auber 93 |
2005–2008 | Crédit Agricole |
2009–2013 | Besson Chaussures–Sojasun |
Yannick Talabardon (born 6 July 1981 in Paris) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2013. [1] He won the Most Combative rider award for Stage 7 of the 2011 Tour de France for his role in the early breakaway.
Talabardon retired at the end of the 2013 season, after twelve seasons as a professional. [1]
Thomas Voeckler is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2017, for the Direct Énergie team and its previous iterations.
Laurent Brochard is a retired professional road racing cyclist from France. In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became world road champion in San Sebastián, Spain.
Jimmy Casper is a French retired road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1998 and 2012. He won stage 1 of 2006 Tour de France.
Pierrick Fédrigo is a French former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2016 for the Crédit Agricole, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, FDJ.fr and Fortuneo–Vital Concept teams. He was the winner of the French National Road Race Championships in 2005, and won four stages at the Tour de France.
Samuel Dumoulin is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Jean Delatour, Cofidis and AG2R La Mondiale teams. He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels p/b KTM.
Charly Mottet is a French former professional cyclist. He was one of the best French road cyclists of his era.
Patrice Halgand is a French former professional road racing cyclist. He was one of only three Festina team riders who were named as clean during the Festina doping scandal during the 1998 Tour de France.
Jussi Veikkanen is a Finnish former road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 2005 and 2015 for the Omega Pharma–Lotto and FDJ teams. He won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times between 2003 and 2014.
Patrick Jonker is a retired Australian road bicycle racer from Dutch and German ancestry. He was a professional rider from 1993 to 2004. Jonker represented Australia twice at the Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 1996. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. The highlights of his career include wins in the 1997 Route du Sud, the 1999 Grand Prix de Wallonie and ending his career with a high profile victory in the 2004 Tour Down Under. In 2012, he denied any involvement in doping practices at U.S. Postal Service during his stint in the team in the 2000 season following the Lance Armstrong doping affair. He stated that the seven titles in the Tour de France that Armstrong won should be voided since the doping tests were unreliable at that time in his opinion.
Stéphane Goubert is a French retired professional road bicycle racer. He finished in the top 20 of the Tour de France 3 times, with his highest finish being 16th in 2009, but he never managed to claim an individual win. He currently works for Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale as an Assistant Sports Director. Goubert was sports director at the 2020 Vuelta a España. In 2007 Goubert placed the highest out of all French riders in the 2007 Tour de France and 2007 Vuelta a España.
Romain Feillu is a French former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019. He is the older brother of Brice Feillu, who also competed professionally as a cyclist.
Amaël Moinard is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Cofidis, BMC Racing Team and Arkéa–Samsic teams. In his first year with the BMC Racing Team in 2011, Moinard rode the Tour de France as a teammate for Cadel Evans who won the race.
François Simon is a French former professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1991 to 2002. He is the brother of Régis, Pascal and Jérôme, all professional cyclists. In the 2001 Tour de France, Simon wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for three days and finished as best French finisher in that Tour. Other career highlights include a stage win in the 1992 Giro d'Italia, two stage wins in the Tour de l'Avenir, stage wins in Circuit de la Sarthe, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and Paris–Nice as well as being road race champion of France in 1999.
Jean-Cyril Robin is a French former professional road racing cyclist.
Michel Laurent is a French former professional road racing cyclist.
Julien El Fares is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2021 for the Cofidis, Team Type 1–Sanofi, Sojasun, Nippo–Delko–One Provence and EF Education–Nippo teams. During his career, he took three professional wins: the first stage of the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, the general classification at the 2009 Tour de Wallonie and the fourth stage of the 2010 Tour Méditerranéen.
Julien Simon is a French road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Team TotalEnergies.
Frédéric Vichot is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who won one stage in the Vuelta a España and two stages in the Tour de France. He is the uncle of racing cyclist Arthur Vichot.
St. Michel–Mavic–Auber93 is a UCI Continental cycling team based in France. The team is managed by Stephane Javalet with the help of Stéphan Gaudry.
Arthur Vichot is a French former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020, for the Groupama–FDJ and B&B Hotels–Vital Concept teams. He is the nephew of Frédéric Vichot, who won stages in the Tour de France in 1984 and 1985.