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
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