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Marc Madiot

Marc Madiot
Barlin - Quatre jours de Dunkerque, étape 3, 8 mai 2015, départ (B068).JPG
Personal information
Full name Marc Madiot
Nickname Mr 1,000 Volts
Born (1959-04-16) 16 April 1959 (age 58)
Renazé, France
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.


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