Nicolas Jalabert

Nicolas Jalabert (born April 13, 1973 in Mazamet ) is a former French cyclist .

Career

Jalabert started his professional career with a small French team . In his second year he won the Grand Prix de Rennes and a stage in the Tour de l'Avenir . Then he got a contract with Cofidis . Here he won the Route Adélie and again the Grand Prix de Rennes and thus secured first place in the overall classification of the Coupe de France . After a year at ONCE (2000), he switched to Team CSC in 2001 and won his first stage race, the Lower Saxony Tour . Since 2004 he has been a member of the ProTeam Phonak . At the Tour de France 2004 he managed to finish second on the 14th stage after trying to break away . In 2007 he moved to the French Agritubel team, for which he drove until his retirement in 2009.

Nicolas is the younger brother of the cyclist Laurent Jalabert . In 2000 they drove together at ONCE-Eroski , where Nicolas had already been a stagiaire in 1993 and 1994 at the end of the season , and the CSC team .