Gilles Maignan

Gilles Maignan

To person
Date of birth	July 30, 1968
nation	France
discipline	Street
Driver type	Time trial
To the team
Current team	retirement
function	driver
Societies)
1989-1994	ACBB, CSM Persan, US Créteil
Team (s)
1995–1998 1999 2000–2001 2002	Mutuelle de Seine-et-Marne Casino AG2R Prévoyance Marlux
Most important successes
Overall ranking Tour Down Under 2000 French time trial champion in 1998 and 1999
Last updated: September 14, 2010

Gilles Maignan (born July 30, 1968 in Argenteuil ) is a former French professional cyclist who was particularly successful in the time trial .

biography

Gilles Maignan began his professional career in 1995 with the Mutuelle de Seine-et-Marne team after having been an amateur for six years . He celebrated his greatest successes at the end of the 1990s for Team Casino and its successor, AG2R Prévoyance . He was the French time trial champion twice in a row in 1998 and 1999 , qualifying him for the UCI road world championships. In 1998 he only finished 27th in the time trial of the World Championships, in 1999 he finished in a respectable seventh place. In 2000 he was the only Frenchman to win the Tour Down Under .

In 2002 Maignan ended his career. He took part in the Tour de France four times and reached the finish in Paris three times . Maignan now works for the Amaury Sport Organization .

successes

1997

2. Tour de Vendée

9th Grand Prix des Nations

1998

French time trial champion

2nd stage Tour de Limousin

2nd Grand Prix des Nations

1999

French time trial champion

5th stage Grand Prix Midi Libre

3rd stage Circuit de Lorraine

2. Circuit Cycliste Sarthe

2. Chrono of the Herbier

2. Duo Normand (with Artūras Kasputis )

5th Grand Prix des Nations

7th World Time Trial Championship

2000

Winner Tour Down Under

4th stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes (individual time trial)

2. Circuit de Lorraine

2001

Winner À Travers le Morbihan

Web links

• Gilles Maignan in the Radsportseiten.net database