Jérôme Delbove

Jérôme Delbove

To person
Date of birth	November 11, 1974
nation	France
discipline	Street
Driver type	helper
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Team (s)
1998-1999 2000	Cofidis Phonak Hearing Systems
Most important successes
Winner Tour de la Somme 1994
Last updated: January 3, 2012

Jérôme Delbove (born November 11, 1974 in Troyes ) is a former French cyclist .

Career

As a youth driver, Delbove was able to attract attention for the first time in 1990 when he finished second in the French championship behind Benoît Salmon . As a 17-year-old, he started in the amateur class, where he was able to establish himself as a successful driver. In 1992 he finished second in the junior version of Paris-Roubaix . Two years later he won the Tour de la Somme one-day race . The victory in the Annemasse-Bellegarde et Retour race and third place at Paris-Auxerre in 1997 finally ensured that he was able to sign his first professional contract with Cofidis for the 1998 season at the age of 23 .

In Delbove's two years at Cofidis, however, the young Frenchman could hardly achieve any results worth mentioning. He just missed a success by finishing second on the fourth day of the Vuelta a Aragón in Spain in April 1999. During his time with the French team, he also took part in important races such as Paris-Tours or the Tour de Romandie . After his two-year contract was not renewed by Cofidis, Delbove switched to the newly founded Swiss racing team Phonak Hearing Systems for the 2000 season . Here he contested the Tour de Langkawi in February, and later the Tour de Romandie, the Germany Tour and the Tour de Suisse . Without having achieved a single place in the top ten in a race, he ended his career as a professional cyclist at the end of 2000.

successes

1990

• Silver medal at the French Youth Championships

1994

• Winner Tour de la Somme

1997

• Winner Annemasse-Bellegarde et Retour

Web links

• Jérôme Delbove in the Radsportseiten.net database