Grégory Baugé

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Full name Grégory Benoît Baugé
Nickname Tigre
Date of birth January 31, 1985
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Train (short term)
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 Bronze medal-2008OB.svg - team sprint
2012 Silver medal-2008OB.svg - sprint, team sprint
2008 Silver medal-2008OB.svg - team sprint
Last updated: June 6, 2020

Grégory Benoît Baugé (born January 31, 1985 in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris ) is a French cyclist . He is nine times world champion in short-term disciplines on the track (as of 2017).

Athletic career

Grégory Baugé, whose family is from Guadeloupe , started playing football when she was eight . After a short time, however, he decided against football because he was freezing. Then his father enrolled him in a cycling school, and Baugé was enthusiastic about this sport and also races on the road (despite the cold).

However, Baugé soon concentrated on track racing. In 2002 he became junior world champion in sprint . In 2006 he became world champion for the first time , in the team sprint at the track world championships . He was able to repeat this success three times in the following years and crown it with an individual victory in the sprint in 2009 . This made him the second dark-skinned sprint world champion 100 years after Major Taylor's World Cup victory in 1899. Baugé also won the silver medal in the team sprint at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In 2010 Baugé again won the sprint world title. At the 2011 World Track Championships in Apeldoorn , he was able to repeat this success and also win the gold medal in the team sprint. He was initially the most successful male athlete at these world championships until the medals were revoked.

At the UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne in 2012 , Baugé was world champion in sprint and vice-world champion in team sprint with Kévin Sireau and Michaël D'Almeida . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London he won the silver medal in the team sprint, together with Kévin Sireau and Michaël D'Almeida, and in the sprint.

In 2016 Baugé was nominated to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he won the bronze medal in the team sprint together with François Pervis and Michaël D'Almeida. In the sprint, he finished seventh.

Withdrawal of the world title

In January 2012 the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that Baugé had been stripped of his two world championship titles from 2011 because he had repeatedly violated the reporting requirements of the World Doping Agency WADA . This is considered a doping offense. His lawyer stated that Baugé was sick on one of the appointments and therefore stayed in a different location than the one indicated. The French cycling federation FFC had already reported the violations of Baugé in December 2010 and criticized the world cycling federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for the delay in their decision as "frivolous".

Since Baugé was subsequently officially banned by the UCI from December 2010 to December 2011, his start at the Olympic Games in London was not in danger.

Critical remarks by Baugé

In December 2016, Baugé criticized the French cycling association FFC . The fact that he only finished seventh at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio was due to poor preparation and general conditions. The work of the former coaches Daniel Morelon , Gérard Quintyn and Florian Rousseau had been "trampled underfoot" by the association, and the "French knowledge" had vanished into thin air. Four years earlier, greater success had been achieved with fewer resources and without the Vélodrome National, which now existed . In another interview, he stated that he intended to remain active until the Olympic Games in Tokyo .

In 2019 he won silver in the team sprint at the World Track Championships with Quentin Lafargue , Sébastien Vigier and Michaël D'Almeida . At the European Games in Minsk he also won silver in the team sprint (with Rayan Helal , Quentin Caleyron and Quentin Lafargue). The French team with Lafargue, Vigier and Melvin Landerneau finished third in the team sprint at the European Championships .

In June 2020, Grégory Baugé commented on the protests following the death of George Floyd that dark-skinned riders like himself at the top of cycling had to deal with racial discrimination on a daily basis. Although he hardly experienced racist discrimination in professional cycling, overall it is a daily companion of a dark-skinned citizen: “Racism has always been part of our lives, always. We have learned to live with it, even if it is of course regrettable. It's just unfortunate. ”He referred to his compatriot Kévin Réza , who had been confronted with racist remarks at the beginning of his career. These incidents come as no surprise to Baugé, although the athletes usually accept the allegations for fear of not receiving enough support: “We are suffering and we are alone. We see it in football. They keep saying that they are against racism, but they don't do anything about it. [...] as long as it doesn't make any money, nothing will change. "

successes

Baugé (left) at the 2016 Olympic Games against Denis Dmitrijew
2002
2003
  • silver Junior World Championship - Sprint
  • EuropeEuropeEuropean Champion - Team Sprint (with Mathieu Mandard and François Pervis )
  • EuropeEurope Junior European Champion - Sprint
  • MaillotFra.PNG French Junior Champion - Sprint
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2019

Web links

Commons : Grégory Baugé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bauge and French sprinters have to hand in World Cup gold on radsport-news.com v. January 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Baugé: la FFC tacle l'UCI on eurosport.fr v. January 6, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurosport.fr
  3. ↑ Jason Kenny named world sprint champion after Bauge ban on news.bbc.co.uk v. January 6, 2012 (Engl.)
  4. ^ Cédric Callier: Grégory Baugé: "Tout le savoir-faire français est parti en fumée". In: sport24.lefigaro.fr. December 23, 2016, accessed on August 2, 2017 (fr_FR).
  5. ↑ Grégory Baugé - Un tigre ne dort jamais [Bonus numérique de Couleurs Sport] - outre-mer 1ère. In: la1ere.francetvinfo.fr. April 8, 2017, accessed August 2, 2017 (French).
  6. ↑ Grégory Baugé: Racism as a constant companion. In: rad-net.de. June 4, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ The world championship title was revoked from Baugé because of a violation of the reporting requirements of the World Doping Agency WADA, in the case of the team sprint also Sireau and D'Almeida. s. above.
personal data
SURNAME Baugé, Grégory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baugé, Grégory Benoît (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Maisons-Laffitte , France