en Cyril Dessel

Cyril Dessel
	Dessel at the 2011 Tour de l'Ain
Personal information
Born	29 November 1974 (age 50); Rive-de-Gier, France
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]

Career achievements

Major results

2002

3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture

2003

9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

2004

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

8th Overall Ronde van Nederland

2006

6th Overall Tour de France

Held

after Stage 10

Held

after Stage 10

2nd Stage 10

1st Overall, Tour Méditerranéen

1st Stage 4

1st Overall Tour de l'Ain

1st Stage 1

1st Points classification

2008

1st Stage 3 Volta a Catalunya

1st Stage 16 Tour de France

6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 4

9th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Stage 5

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	99
Tour de France	113	—	—	—	6	DNF	28	DNF	—	—
Vuelta a España	99	DNF	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	60

DNF=Did not finish

References

^ Westemeyer, Susan (14 September 2011). "Cyril Dessel retires after 11 years in the peloton". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
^ [1] Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Tour de France 2006". Archived from the original on 15 July 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2006.
^ "Tour de France 2006". Archived from the original on 8 November 2006. Retrieved 24 July 2006.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Cyril Dessel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.