Florian Rousseau

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Florian Rousseau Road cycling
Florian Rousseau (2012)
Florian Rousseau (2012)
To person
Date of birth 3rd February 1974
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Train (short term)
End of career 2004
Most important successes
Olympic games
2000 Olympic Champion - Keirin, team sprintgold
2000 Olympic Games - Sprintsilver
1996 Olympic champion - 1000 meter time trialgold
Team (s) as coach
2005-2013 National sprint team France
Last updated: December 24, 2017
Rousseau as a supervisor on the Parc de la Tete d'Or cycling track in Lyon ( France )

Florian Georges Philippe Rousseau (born February 3, 1974 in Joinville-le-Pont ) is a French cycling coach. As an active person, he was one of the most successful track cyclists in the short-term disciplines from the 1990s to the 2000s. He achieved three Olympic victories and was world champion ten times.

Athletic career

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Florian Rousseau won the gold medal on the track in the 1000-meter time trial in a time of 1: 02.712 minutes ahead of the American Erin Hartwell . Four years later, at the Games in Sydney , he won two gold medals, in the keirin and in the team sprint , together with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant , and he also won another silver medal in the sprint .

Florian Rousseau won the gold medal in the sprint at UCI track world championships in Manchester 1996 , Perth 1997 and Bordeaux 1998 . In the years 1997 to 2001, Rousseau was also world champion in team sprints with the French team in various casts. After he was not nominated for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he ended his cycling career.

Professional

After the end of his active career, Rousseau was coach of the French national track sprint team from 2005 to 2013. He then became director of sports at the Institut national du sport et de l'éducation physique (INSEP) to prepare French athletes for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . He also comments on cycling races for France Télévisions . Since April 2018 he has been a member of an athletes commission chaired by Martin Fourcade in preparation for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. In December 2019 he was also appointed sports director of the French Athletics Federation.

Honors

In his hometown of Patay the municipal multi-purpose sports hall was named after him Stade Florian Rousseau .

successes

1992
  • World Champion Junior world champion - 1000 meter time trial
  • bronze Junior World Championship - Sprint
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002

Web links

Commons : Florian Rousseau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La FFC bouleverse sa direction technique. In: archives.sport.fr. December 17, 2004, archived from the original on December 25, 2017 ; accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rousseau steps down as a French track coach. In: cyclingnews.com. February 25, 2013, accessed April 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Florian Rousseau d'attaque pour Rio 2016 en tant que chargé de mission pour l'INSEP. In: larep.fr. February 4, 2015, accessed August 12, 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Nicolas Messant: Championships Européens 2018: Le program TV des épreuves de cyclisme sur France Télévisions et Eurosport. In: mediasportif.fr. August 5, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 (French).
  5. ^ Organization of JO 2024: 18 sportifs français appelés à la Commission des athlètes menée par Martin Fourcade. In: francetvinfo.fr. April 12, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ Anthony Hernandez: JO 2020: Florian Rousseau entre en piste pour favoriser la performance de l'athlétisme français. In: lemonde.fr. January 21, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020 (French).
  7. ↑ Par Eurosport: M2A: Zoom sur Rousseau. In: eurosport.fr. September 23, 2003, accessed April 11, 2018 (French).


personal data
SURNAME Rousseau, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rousseau, Florian Georges Philippe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Joinville-le-Pont