![]() Dessel at the 2011
Tour de l'Ain | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Rive-de-Gier, France | 29 November 1974
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Retired |
Rider type | Climber |
Amateur team | |
1999 | Casino–Ag2r Prévoyance (trainee) |
Professional teams | |
2000–2002 | Jean Delatour |
2003–2004 | Phonak |
2005–2011 | AG2R Prévoyance |
Cyril Dessel (born 29 November 1974 in Rive-de-Gier, Loire) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2000 to 2011. [1]
In 2006, he won the Tour Méditerranéen on the UCI Europe Tour. [2] Then in the 2006 Tour de France, he finished second in the tenth stage, taking the leader's yellow jersey for a day and the lead in the King of the Mountains competition; [3] he eventually finished sixth. [4] In 2008, he won the 16th stage of the Tour after being in a chase group most of the day, beating David Arroyo, Yaroslav Popovych and Sandy Casar.
Dessel competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [5]
Grand Tour | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 99 |
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113 | — | — | — | 6 | DNF | 28 | DNF | — | — |
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99 | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | 60 |
DNF=Did not finish