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Key facts
- 1999
- Vendée U
- Full name
- Sylvain Chavanel
- Nickname
- Chava, Mimosa, La Machine
- Born
- ( 1979-06-30 ) 30 June 1979 (age 46) , Châtellerault , France
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Weight
- 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
- Current team
- Retired
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 2000 2004
- Bonjour
- 2005 2008
- Cofidis
- 2009 2013
- Quick-Step
- 2014 2015
- IAM Cycling
- 2016 2018
- Direct Énergie
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sylvain
- Family name
- Chavanel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Châtellerault
- Sibling
- Sébastien Chavanel
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 72
- Image
- Hazebrouck - Quatre jours de Dunkerque, étape 2, 8 mai 2014, départ (A128).JPG
- Height
- 181
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- Sylvain Chavanel
- date of birth
- 1979-06-30
- name in native language
- Sylvain Chavanel
- social media followers
- 60401
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
Sylvain Chavanel (born 30 June 1979) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2018 for the Cofidis, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, IAM Cycling and two spells with the Brioches La Boulangère/Direct Énergie team. His brother Sébastien Chavanel also rode as a professional cyclist. Sylvain Chavanel was noted as a strong all-rounder who won both sprints and time-trials, and was a good northern classics rider, taking 45 wins during his professional career.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sylvain Chavanel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.