Personal information | |
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Full name | Yohann Gène |
Born | Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | 25 June 1981
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Amateur teams | |
2000–2004 | Vendée U–Pays de la Loire |
2003 | Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire) |
2004 | Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire) |
Professional team | |
2005–2019 | Bouygues Télécom [1] [2] |
Yohann Gène (born 25 June 1981 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2019, entirely for Bouygues Télécom and its later iterations. [3] He was the first black cyclist, as well as the first cyclist of Afro-Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African descent, to ever compete in the Tour de France. [4]
Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | 149 | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | 158 | 139 | 158 | 128 | 137 | 158 | 134 |
Vuelta a España | 126 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |