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Laurent Dufaux

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Laurent Dufaux
Personal information
Full nameLaurent Dufaux
Born (1969-05-20) 20 May 1969 (age 55)
Montreux, Switzerland
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Professional teams
1991–1992Helvetia
1993–1994ONCE
1995–1998Festina
1999–2001Saeco
2002–2003Alessio
2004Quick-Step–Davitamon
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (1996)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (1996)

Stage races

Critérium du Dauphiné (1993, 1994)
Tour de Romandie (1998)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1991)

Laurent Dufaux (born 20 May 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) is a former professional road cyclist from 1991 to 2004. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1991.[1] Despite being a climber, he also won the hilly Züri-Metzgete one-day classic in 2000, outsprinting Jan Ullrich and Francesco Casagrande in a flat three-man group sprint finish.[2][3] Notable results in the Grand Tours include a 4th place overall finish in both the 1996 and 1999 Tour de France and 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, respectively. He also won the 1998 edition of his home region race, the Tour de Romandie, the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Dauphine Libere, and finished in the top 5 of the Tour de Suisse twice.

Following the exclusion of his Festina team from the 1998 Tour de France due to doping, Laurent Dufaux admitted to doping (alongside his teammates) with EPO throughout the 1998 season.[4] Together with Festina teammates Alex Zülle, Armin Meier, Didier Rous, Laurent Brochard, all of whom confessed like Dufaux, he received a seven-month suspension.[5]

Major results

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1990
9th Giro dell'Emilia
1991
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Overall Route du Sud
1st Coppa Placci
2nd Giro del Lazio
4th Tour du Nord–Ouest
5th Overall Tour de Romandie
7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
7th Trofeo Laigueglia
1992
1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami
3rd Tour de Berne
5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
6th Overall Tour de Romandie
6th Overall Tour of Galicia
6th Overall Euskal Bizikleta
6th Classique des Alpes
7th GP Ouest–France
1993
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 5
2nd Gran Piemonte
3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
5th Classique des Alpes
7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
1994
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
5th Leeds International Classic
7th Classique des Alpes
9th Overall Tour de l'Oise
1st Stage 2
1995
1st Overall Route du Sud
1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos
1st Points classification
1st Stages 3 & 4a
1996
2nd Overall Vuelta a España
1st Stage 19
3rd À travers Lausanne
4th Overall Tour de France
1st Stage 17
6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
7th Trofeo Luis Puig
8th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1997
1st Overall À travers Lausanne
1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 2 (ITT)
1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
2nd Overall Paris–Nice
3rd Overall Vuelta a España
6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
9th Overall Tour de France
1998
1st Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 3
1st Overall Midi Libre
1st Stage 5
4th Overall À travers Lausanne
7th Amstel Gold Race
8th Overall Paris–Nice
9th La Flèche Wallonne
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1999
1st Polynormande
2nd À travers Lausanne
3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
4th Overall Tour de France
4th Overall Tour de Suisse
4th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2000
1st Züri-Metzgete
3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
3rd À travers Lausanne
3rd Grand Prix Gippingen
5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
6th Amstel Gold Race
9th Overall Deutschland Tour
2001
1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino
3rd À travers Lausanne
4th Tre Valli Varesine
6th Road race, National Road Championships
9th Giro del Lazio
2002
1st Trofeo Melinda
2nd Giro del Veneto
3rd Tre Valli Varesine
4th Overall Tour de Suisse
4th Overall Giro Riviera Ligure Ponente
6th Grand Prix Gippingen
9th Clásica de San Sebastián
10th Züri-Metzgete
10th Giro dell'Appennino
2003
2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 3
5th Classique des Alpes
2004
9th Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Source:[6]

Grand Tour 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — 43 — — — — — 40 — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France DNF — 35 19 4 9 DNF 4 DNF — DNF 21 67
A yellow jersey/A gold jersey Vuelta a España — 37 — — 2 3 DNF DNF DNF — — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  2. ^ swissinfo.ch, S. W. I. (2000-08-20). "Dufaux wins Zurich World Cup race". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  3. ^ Hood, Edmond (2006-09-28). "Zuri-Metzgete: The Historical Look". PezCycling News. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  4. ^ Abt, Samuel; Tribune, International Herald (1998-07-25). "Expelled Tour Riders Admit Drug Use". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  5. ^ autobus.cyclingnews.com http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/2000/oct00/oct25news.shtml. Retrieved 2024-07-03. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Laurent Dufaux". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
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