Frédéric Guesdon

Frédéric Guesdon
Personal information
Full name Frédéric Guesdon
Born (1971-10-14) October 14, 1971
Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1995 Le Groupement
1996 Team Polti
1997–2012 Française des Jeux
Managerial team(s)
2013– FDJ
Major wins

Single-day races and Classics

Paris–Roubaix (1997)
Paris–Tours (2006)

Frédéric Guesdon (born October 14, 1971) is a French former professional road bicycle racer who competed as a professional between 1995 and 2012, most notably for UCI ProTeam FDJ–BigMat,[1] spending 16 years of his career with the team.

Guesdon was born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Brittany. He turned professional in 1995 with the French Le Groupement team and moved on to the Polti team in 1996, where he scored eleventh place at Paris–Roubaix and third place at the French championship. Guesdon had his breakthrough year in 1997. Having signed with the new Française des Jeux team, he scored an early victory for the team in the prestigious spring monument Paris–Roubaix. Guesdon also took victories at the Classic Haribo and a stage in the Tour du Limousin. Guesdon had to wait until 2000 for his next major victory, a stage in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, a feat he repeated in 2002. Despite a complete lack of victories between this win and his next win, over three-and-a-half years later in the 2006 Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Guesdon remained loyal to Française des Jeux and Française des Jeux to him. This paid dividends when Guesdon won the 2006 UCI ProTour race Paris–Tours, his first ProTour victory and the first overall ProTour victory both for Française des Jeux since the inception of the competition in 2005.

He retired on 8 April 2012, after completing Paris–Roubaix.[2]

Major results

References

  1. ↑ "Casar and Guesdon head FDJ – Big Mat lineup in Santos Tour Down Under". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Brown, Gregor (8 April 2012). "Guesdon ends career with record-setting Roubaix". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
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