Sylvain Chavanel

Sylvain Chavanel

Sylvain Chavanel (2014)
To person
Date of birth	June 30, 1979
nation	France
discipline	Street
Driver type	All-rounder
height	1.81 m
Racing weight	73 kg
End of career	2018
Team (s)
2000–2004 2005–2008 2009–2013 2014–2015 2016–2018	Bonjour / Brioches La Boulangère Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone Quick Step IAM Cycling Direct Énergie
Most important successes
Tour de France 2008 - 19th stage 2010 - 2nd stage, 7th stage Round trips Three days of De Panne 2012, 2013 Four days of Dunkirk 2002, 2004 World championships World Champion - Team Time Trial 2012 , 2013
Last updated: November 15, 2018

Sylvain Chavanel-Albira (born June 30, 1979 in Châtellerault ) is a former French cyclist .

Athletic career

Sylvain Chavanel began his international career in 2000 with Bonjour , for which he won his first international competition in the first year with a stage of the Circuit Franco-Belge .

During his career, Chavanel developed into a successful time trial . He has been the French individual time trial champion six times and won eight international individual time trial competitions. He won ten international stage races . Among them were his victories at the Four Days of Dunkirk in 2002 and 2004 and the Three Days of De Panne in 2012 and 2013, both races in the hors category . In the one-day races , Chavanel u. a. the GP Ouest France-Plouay 2014 and the French road championship 2011.

From 2001 to 2018, Chavanel competed in the Tour de France every year , a total of 18 times in a row. In 2008 he won the 19th stage and in 2010 the second and seventh stages. In these two years he was awarded the red number as the most combative driver of the tour . With his solo victories on the 2nd and 7th stage of the 2010 Tour, he won the overall leader's yellow jersey for one day .

During his time with the Belgian Omega Pharma Quickstep team, Chavanel also achieved top positions in the monuments of cycling : he was a. a. Seventh at Paris – Roubaix 2009 seventh, second in the Tour of Flanders 2011 and Milan – Sanremo 2013 fourth. With this team he became world champion in team time trial in 2012 and 2013 .

In total, Chavanel won 38 international competitions on the road in addition to his seven national championship titles.

On the track , Chavanel was three times French champion, in 2015 and 2016 in the single pursuit and in 2017 in the two-man team with Thomas Boudat . He also won the single pursuit in Glasgow in the 2016/17 World Cup season .

Chavanel finished his career with a fifth place on the Chrono des Herbiers on October 14, 2018.

family

His younger brother Sébastien Chavanel was also a cyclist until 2016.

successes

Street

Chavanel at the Tour de France 2015

2000

• one stage Circuit Franco-Belge

2002

• Overall standings Four days from Dunkirk
• Trophée des Grimpeurs

2003

• Tour du Haut-Var
• a stage Circuit Cycliste Sarthe

2004

• Overall standings Four days from Dunkirk
• Overall ranking Tour of Belgium
• Polynormande
• two stages Tour du Poitou-Charentes

2005

• Overall classification and one stage of the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
• French champion - individual time trial
• Overall ranking Tour du Poitou-Charentes
• Duo Normand (with Thierry Marichal )

2006

• French champion - individual time trial
• Overall ranking Tour du Poitou-Charentes

2008

• one stage Tour Méditerranéen
• a stage Paris – Nice
• Across Flanders
• Brabant Arrow
• one stage tour of Catalonia
• French champion - individual time trial
• a stage and the most combative driver Tour de France

2009

• a stage Paris – Nice
• one stage Eneco Tour

2010

• two stages and the most combative driver Tour de France

2011

• French champion - road racing

2012

• Overall classification and a stage Three days from De Panne
• French champion - individual time trial
• World champion - team time trial

2013

• a stage and points scoring Paris – Nice
• Overall classification and a stage Three days from De Panne
• French champion - individual time trial
• one stage Eneco Tour
• World champion - team time trial

2014

• a stage four days from Dunkirk
• French champion - individual time trial
• Overall ranking and a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes
• Grand Prix Ouest France-Plouay
• Chrono des Nations

2016

• a stage of the Étoile de Bessèges
• Overall ranking and a stage Tour du Poitou Charentes

2017

• a stage Tour des Hauts-de-France

train

2015

• French master - one's pursuit

2016

• Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow - Individual Pursuit
• French master - one's pursuit

2017

• French champion - two-man team driving (with Thomas Boudat )

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	-	-	-
Tour de France	65	36	37	30th	58	45	DNF	61	20th	31	61	DNF	31	34	54	43	25th	39
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	DNF	-	-	27	-	-	-	47	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Monuments of cycling placements

Monument to cycling	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Milan – Sanremo	-	-	-	-	52	-	71	-	59	37	21st	20th	-	4th	21st	23	-	-	-
Tour of Flanders	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	31	24	2	10	13	19th	45	33	9	-
Paris – Roubaix	DNF	52	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	7th	-	38	27	19th	-	94	DNF	19th	80
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	-	DNF	DNF	89	48	45	57	-	-	DNF	69	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lombardy tour	-	-	-	-	-	84	-	-	-	-	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chavanel dreams of having his own team after retiring . In: radsport-news.com. October 14, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Sylvain Chavanel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sylvain Chavanel in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Sylvain Chavanel in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Sylvain Chavanel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sylvain Chavanel in the ProCyclingStats.com database