Sylvain Chavanel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sylvain Chavanel
Occupation	Sport Cyclist
Date Of Birth	Jun 30, 1979(1979-06-30)
Age	45
Birthplace	Châtellerault
Country	France
Birth City	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Horoscope	Gemini

Sylvain Chavanel Biography

Sylvain Chavanel is one of the most popular and richest Sport Cyclist who was born on June 30, 1979 in Châtellerault, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Sylvain Chavanel (born 30 June 1979) is a French professional road bike racer, who raced professionally from 2000 to 2018 for Cofidis, Omega Pharma-Quick-Step, IAM Cycling and two spells with the Brioches la Boulangere/Direct Energy team. The brother of Sebastien Chavanel was also professional cyclist. Sylvain Chavanel was regarded as an all-rounder with a lot of strength who was a winner in both time-trials and sprints and was also a great northern classics rider. He scored 45 wins throughout the course of his career.

Chavanel stated the year 2007 that he received offers from international teams but was dissuaded from joining because he was not sure about his pension obligations outside France. In July 2008, he stated that he had negotiated to Patrick Lefevere the directeur sportif to join the Quick-Step team in Belgium for 2009. Chavanel stated that he took the decision to leave after having performed very well in classic races in Belgium at the beginning in the season. He took home Dwars of Vlaanderen and Brabantse Pijl. He also said:

On 3 September 2008, he came second in the individual time trial stage of the Vuelta a España at Ciudad Real. His ride brought him to second place overall, two seconds slower than the American, Levi Leipheimer. His team worked for him next day from Ciudad Real to Toledo to make sure he won time bonuses offered along the route. The six seconds he collected were enough to give him the leader’s jersey on 4 September.

On 25 July 2008 Chavanel won the 19th stage of the Tour de France by outsprinting Jérémy Roy at Montluçon. That and other performances brought him election as the most combative rider of the race.

Chavanel was the first rider to take part in the Tour de France at 22 and finished 65th. He then finishing third at the Tour de l’Avenir behind Denis Menchov and Florent Brard. In 2002, he took his first race, the Four Days of Dunkirk and placed second at the Tour of Belgium. He won both races in 2005.

Sylvain Chavanel Net Worth

Sylvain Chavanel is one of the richest Sport Cyclist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sylvain Chavanel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started racing when he was 13 years old. He was a winner of over 29 times on the track as a teenager and junior. He was the winner of his first national championship for juniors in the year 1997. The uncle of his, Philippe Raby, a former racer from the Vendee region, suggested Chavanel to Jean-Rene Bernaudeau who was building a professional team that was based in the region. Bernardeau witnessed Chavanel race first time at Montreveau in Maine-et-Loire in France, while competing against the Bernardeau’s Vendee U junior team.

Bernardeau and Chavanel decided that Chavanel will continue to work at his team, AC Chatellerault, which was spending time and money in his coaching. The assistant of Bernardeau, Thierry Bricau, was appointed to provide Chavanel with a programme of training. Chavanel took part in on the Tour de l’Avenir in 1999 and, in 2000 at the age of 21, he became a professional with Bernardeau’s Bonjour team, which was financed by a network of regional newspapers. He was the winner of in the opening stage of Circuit Franco-Belge and lost his jersey of the leader on the final day. He also took home the climbers’ jersey during the Tour de l’Avenir by breaking through the Pyrenees and ridden 217 km (135 miles) in a single ride in top of the Paris-Tours.

Chavanel was born in Châtellerault, France, although his family roots are in Spain. His great-grandparents were from Huesca, in the Aragon region. His grandfather was born in Barcelona and moved to Châtellerault during the Spanish Civil War. Other members of the family still live in Aragon. He said: “Last year [2007], when the Vuelta was in Zaragoza, I got to know the cousin of mine using a journalist as the translator and she gave me a picture of my grandfather when he was young. Despite my origins, I hardly know a word of Spanish – just swear words”.

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In 2013, after strong appearances in the Tour de San Luis and the Volta ao Algarve, Chavanel won stage six of Paris–Nice, taking the points classification at the race. Chavanel also won the overall classification at the Three Days of De Panne for the second year in a row, winning the final time trial stage.

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Sylvain Ranked on the list of most popular Sport Cyclist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Sylvain Chavanel celebrates birthday on June 30 of every year.

In September 2015 Direct Énergie announced that Chavanel would join them for the 2016 season. In 2018, Chavanel participated in the Tour de France for the 18th time to take the record outright from Stuart O’Grady and Jens Voigt for the most Tour de France participations and was given the most combative rider award for the second stage. On 26 July 2018, Chavanel finished Stage 18 of the race to become the man with the biggest number of stages completed – overtaking Joop Zoetemelk’s 365. 3 days later, he tied Zoetemelk’s record of finishing the Tour de France 16 times. On the last day of the race, 29 July, he announced he would retire after Tour de Vendée on 6 October 2018. He extended his career to the following week’s Chrono des Nations before retiring.