Benoît Vétu
Benoît Vétu (2018) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | October 29, 1973 |
nation | France |
discipline | Train (short term) |
End of career | around 1995 |
Team (s) as coach | |
2005–2012 2012–2013 2013–2016 2016– |
National team France National team Russia National team China National team Japan |
Last updated: November 1st, 2018 |
Benoît Vétu (born October 29, 1973 in Hyères ) is a French cycling trainer and former track cyclist .
In 1994 Benoît Vétu was third in the French Keirin Championship . In the following year he won the silver medal in the team sprint at the UCI Track World Championships in Bogotá in 1995 together with Florian Rousseau and Hervé Thuet .
After finishing his active cycling career, Vétu became a coach. From 2005 he worked as a national coach on the cycling track in his hometown Hyères . In 2012 he switched to the Russian Cycling Federation as a trainer and from 2013 trained the Chinese national team in track sprint as the successor to his compatriot Daniel Morelon .
At the 2016 UCI Track World Championships , the athletes Gong Jinjie and Zhong Tianshi were relegated to second place in the team sprint due to a faulty change. Vétu was so enraged that he hit a table and broke his hand.
At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Jinjie and Tianshi won the gold medal in the team sprint and thus the first ever Olympic medal in cycling for China, which Vétu described as a "sporty orgasm".
In autumn 2016, Vétu switched to the Japan Cycling Federation as a trainer to prepare the Japanese short-term cyclists for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo together with the Australian Jason Niblett .
Benoît Vétu's first marriage was to cyclist Félicia Ballanger
successes
- 1995
- World Championship - Team Sprint (with Florian Rousseau and Hervé Thuet )
Web links
- Benoît Vétu in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benoît Vétu part en Russie on lequipe.fr v. September 7, 2012 (French)
- ↑ Jack Elton-Walters: China team manager breaks hand in anger after team sprint relegation - Cycling Weekly. In: cyclingweekly.co.uk. March 3, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Benoît Vétu à la Tête de l'equipe nationale de Chine. (No longer available online.) October 24, 2013, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
- ^ AT-C., À Rio de Janeiro: Benoît Vêtu, le Français qui gagne au vélodrome de Rio. In: lequipe.fr. August 13, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 (French).
- ↑ Benoît Vetu en Jason Niblitt gaan Japanse sprintploeg coaching. (No longer available online.) In: baanwacht.nl. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; Retrieved October 31, 2016 (Dutch).
- ↑ (公 財) JKA ハ イ パ フ ォ ー マ ン ス デ ィ ビ ジ ョ ン #. (No longer available online.) In: jcf.or.jp. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; accessed on October 31, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Félicia Ballanger on actustar.com (French) ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vétu, Benoît |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cycling trainer and former track cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hyeres |