Rider Profile
Sylvain Chavanel
Direct Energie

Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2018 - Direct Energie
- 2017 - Direct Energie
- 2016 - Direct Energie
- 2015 - IAM Cycling
- 2014 - IAM Cycling
- 2013 - Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team
- 2012 - Omega Pharma - QuickStep
- 2011 - Quickstep Cycling Team
- 2010 - Quick Step
- 2009 - Quick Step
- 2008 - Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
- 2007 - Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
- 2006 - Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
- 2005 - Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
- 2004 - Brioches La Boulangère
- 2003 - Brioches La Boulangère
- 2002 - Bonjour
- 2001 - Bonjour
- 2000 - Bonjour - Toupargel
Biography:
Key Results
1st Tour de France stages, 19, 2008; 2 & 7, 2012
1st overall Four Days of Dunkirk 2002, '04
1st overall Tour of Belgium 2004
1st overall Three Days of De Panne 2012-13
1st overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2014, '16
1st GP Ouest France - Plouay 2014
1st De Brabantse Pijl - La Flèche Brabançonne 2008
1st Dwars Door Vlaanderen 2008
1st La Poly Normande 2004
1st French national road race champion 2011
1st French national time trial champion 2005-06, 2008, 2012-14
Tour de France combativity prize 2008, '10
Related Articles

Chavanel repeats in the rain
By Brecht Decaluwé published
By Brecht Decaluwé Four days after his solo victory in Dwars door Vlaanderen Sylvain Chavanel...

Chavanel starts to pay back Cofidis credit
By Cycling News published
Sylvain Chavanel's recent win in the Dwars door Vlaanderen gave the 28 year-old Frenchman a boost...
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Luis León Sánchez back to winning
By Antonio J. Salmerón published
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Yellow jersey race goes downhill
By Hedwig Kröner in Cannes published
The race for the yellow jersey is frequently decided on the slopes of France's daunting peaks, but...

Chavanel: 'Free your mind, and the rest will follow'
By Cycling News published
By Hedwig Kröner in Cannes "I'm always good in this stage to Cannes. I'd like to be in front again...

Kroon's 20-second penalty shuffles Paris-Nice GC
By Gerry McManus published
Team CSC's Karsten Kroon came within two seconds of the leader's jersey during Wednesday's 165.5km...
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