Madiot at the 2015 Four Days of Dunkirk.
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Marc Madiot |
Nickname | Mr 1,000 Volts |
Born |
Renazé, France |
16 April 1959
Team information | |
Current team | FDJ |
Discipline |
Road Cyclocross |
Role | Rider (retired) General manager |
Professional team(s) | |
1980–1985 | Renault-Elf |
1986–1987 | Système U |
1988–1990 | Toshiba |
1991 | R.M.O. |
1992 | Telekom |
1993 | Subaru-Montgomery |
1994 | Catavana-A.S. Corbeil |
Managerial team(s) | |
1997– | Française des Jeux |
Major wins | |
National Road Race Championships (1987) Paris–Roubaix (1985, 1991) Tour de France, 1 stage |
Marc Madiot (born 16 April 1959 in Renazé) is a French former professional road racing cyclist and double winner of Paris–Roubaix. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Retired from racing in 1994, he is now best known as the directeur sportif of FDJ, a UCI ProTour cycling team. He is also known as the president of the French Ligue National de Cyclisme (LNC).
In 2008 he was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor. It was presented by then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysée palace in Paris.
He is the older brother of fellow retired racing cyclist and French national road racing champion Yvon Madiot.