Patrice Halgand

Patrice Halgand at the 2007 Tour de France

Patrice Halgand (born March 2, 1974 in Saint-Nazaire ) is a former French cyclist .

Athletic career

Halgand received a contract with the French cycling team Festina in 1995 . He celebrated his first international success on the road in 1997 when he won the overall classification and a stage of the Etoile de Bessèges . In 2000 he moved to Jean Delatour , where he secured the overall standings of the Coupe de France , but could not win a single race.

A year later he won the Rothaus Regio Tour . He had his most successful year in 2002, when he won a stage at the Dauphiné Libéré and at the Tour de France and thus his only successes in the UCI ProTour . From 2004 he drove for the later ProTeam . Crédit Agricole . In 2005 he won a stage of the Route du Sud . In 2007 he decided one stage of the Tour de l'Ain and in 2008 the Tour de Wallonie for himself.

Hagland designed its own line of cycling clothing, tests bikes for a column in Vélo Magazine and chauffeurs L'Équipe's journalists on the Tour de France . In 2013 Hagland competed in several cyclo-cross races in France.