Laurent Gané

Laurent Gané (born March 7, 1973 in Nouméa , New Caledonia ) is a former French track cyclist . He became Olympic champion and seven-time world champion.

Laurent Gané began cycling at the age of ten. At the beginning of the 1990s he decided to go cycling. In 1996 he left Nouméa to train with Daniel Morelon in the mother country . At his first UCI track world championships in 1996 in Manchester, he won the bronze medal with a team sprint (with Florian Rousseau and Hervé Thuet ); two years later, in 1998 in Bordeaux , two more followed in the keirin and team sprint .

At the track world championships in Berlin in 1999 , Laurent Gané was two-time world champion, in the sprint and team sprint (with Arnaud Tournant and Florian Rousseau). The three drivers were able to repeat this success the following year at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney as well as at the 2000 World Track Championships in Manchester and the 2001 championships . In addition, Gané won a gold medal in the sprint at the 2000 Olympic Games ; at the 2000 World Cup he was runner-up in this discipline.

2003 in Stuttgart Gané was again two-time world champion in sprint and keirin; The last highlight of his career was in 2004 the world championship title in team sprint (with Tournant and Mickaël Bourgain ), another runner-up world championship in sprint and a bronze medal in team sprint at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

From 1998 to 2005 Gané was a member of the railway team of the Équipe Cofidis . Then he resigned from active cycling. Since then he has worked as Technical Sports Director for the French Cycling Federation in New Caledonia (as of 2013).

Laurent Gané was awarded the “Velo d'Or français” twice, in 1999 and 2003, by French journalists.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Laurent Gané in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Laurent Gané in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )