Benoît Vétu

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Benoît Vétu Road cycling
Benoît Vétu (2018)
Benoît Vétu (2018)
To person
Date of birth October 29, 1973
nation FranceFrance 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

Web links

Commons : Benoît Vétu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benoît Vétu part en Russie on lequipe.fr v. September 7, 2012 (French)
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ 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).
  6. ↑ （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).
  7. ↑ Félicia Ballanger on actustar.com (French) ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Vétu, Benoît
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cycling trainer and former track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyeres