(1974-11-29) 29 November 1974 (age 49) Rive-de-Gier, France
Height
1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight
63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Retired
Rider type
Climber
Amateur team
1999
Casino–Ag2r Prévoyance (trainee)
Professional teams
2000–2002
Jean Delatour
2003–2004
Phonak
2005–2011
AG2R Prévoyance
Cyril Dessel (born 29 November 1974 in Rive-de-Gier, Loire) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2000 to 2011.[1]
In 2006, he won the Tour Méditerranéen on the UCI Europe Tour.[2] Then in the 2006 Tour de France, he finished second in the tenth stage, taking the leader's yellow jersey for a day and the lead in the King of the Mountains competition;[3] he eventually finished sixth.[4] In 2008, he won the 16th stage of the Tour after being in a chase group most of the day, beating David Arroyo, Yaroslav Popovych and Sandy Casar.
Dessel competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[5]
^Westemeyer, Susan (14 September 2011). "Cyril Dessel retires after 11 years in the peloton". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
^[1] Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
^"Tour de France 2006". Archived from the original on 15 July 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2006.
^"Tour de France 2006". Archived from the original on 8 November 2006. Retrieved 24 July 2006.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Cyril Dessel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
CyrilDessel (born 29 November 1974 in Rive-de-Gier, Loire) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2000...
Miguel Mercado winning the stage and moving into 2nd place overall and CyrilDessel finishing the stage 2nd with the same time as Mercado, but taking over...
Tour de Langkawi, Laurent Mangel Overall Tour Méditerranéen, CyrilDessel Stage 4, CyrilDessel Le Samyn, Renaud Dion Route Adélie de Vitré, Samuel Dumoulin...
22 July Cuneo (Italy) to Jausiers 157.0 km (97.6 mi) Mountain stage CyrilDessel (FRA) 17 23 July Embrun to Alpe d'Huez 210.5 km (130.8 mi) Mountain stage...
theyellow jersey in 74:38:05, followed by Sastre (+1:50), Klöden (+2:29), CyrilDessel (AG2R) +2:43, and Evans (+2:56). (leTour.fr) 2006–07 UEFA Champions League:...
mountain stage) of the 2006 Tour de France in an early breakaway with CyrilDessel (Ag2r Prévoyance). On 19 February 2020, media reports suggested that...
classification. After teammate CyrilDessel took the yellow jersey on stage 11, Moreau worked for Dessel to try to preserve Dessel's high placing. On the 19th...
Hushovd (NOR) 2 21 May Banyoles to La Seu d'Urgell 191.1 km (118.7 mi) CyrilDessel (FRA) 3 22 May La Seu d'Urgell to Ascó 217.2 km (135.0 mi) Pierrick...
Schleck . Cycling: Tour de France – Stage 16 (Cuneo > Jausiers): (1) CyrilDessel (2) Sandy Casar (3) David Arroyo Fränk Schleck still holds the yellow...
CyrilDessel, Stéphane Goubert, Lloyd Mondory, and José Luis Arrieta on 21 June. Christophe Riblon, Nicolas Roche, Hubert Dupont, and CyrilDessel complete...
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