Kévin Sireau

Kévin Sireau
	Kévin Sireau (2015)
To person
Date of birth	April 18, 1987
nation	France
discipline	Train (short term)
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2008, 2012 - team sprint UCI track world championships 2008, 2009, 2015 - team sprint
	Last updated: January 1st, 2017

Kévin Sireau (born April 18, 1987 in Châteauroux ) is a former French track cyclist and three-time world champion in team sprint .

In 2005 Kévin Sireau was three times vice world champion in short-term disciplines at the UCI track world championships for juniors in Vienna ; In 2017, he also became Junior European Champion in team sprint together with Alexandre Volant and Michaël D'Almeida

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Sireau (with Grégory Baugé and Arnaud Tournant ) won the silver medal in the team sprint. In the same year he became world champion together with these two drivers in Manchester . The French team (with Mickaël Bourgain instead of Tournant) was able to repeat this success the following year at the World Track Championships in Pruszków . At the Sprint European Cup 2009 in Moscow , Sireau improved the 200 meter world record (flying) on the Olympic track from 1980 twice within two days, first to 9.650 and then to 9.572 seconds. At the UEC European Rail Championships in 2011 , he was European sprint champion. In the 2010/2011 season he won the overall ranking in the sprint of the Track Cycling World Cup .

At the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn , Sireau was world champion in the team sprint, together with Baugé and Michaël D'Almeida . In January 2012 the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that Sireau would be deprived of his world championship title in the team sprint of 2011 because his teammate Baugé had violated the reporting requirements of the World Doping Agency WADA several times .

In 2012, Kévin Sireau won his second Olympic silver medal in the team sprint together with Baugé and D'Almeida at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In 2015 he became world champion in the team sprint for the third time (with Baugé and D'Almeida). For the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Sireau was only nominated as a substitute driver. He started at the UEC European Rail Championships in 2016 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines . He said that this would be his last race and that he would train as a coach afterwards. Together with Quentin Lafargue and Sébastien Vigier , he finished fourth in the team sprint.

successes

2005

- Sprint, 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Alexandre Volant and Michaël D'Almeida )
Junior European Champion - Team Sprint (with Alexandre Volant and Michaël D'Almeida )
- sprint
French Junior Champion - Sprint, 1000m Time Trial, Team Sprint (with Mathieu Mandard and Alexis Jarry )