French cyclist

Charly Mottet (born 16 December 1962 in Valence, Drôme) is a French former professional cyclist (1983 to 1994). He was one of the best French road cyclists of his era.

His daughter, Eva Mottet, was also a road racing cyclist. She competed as a junior at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships, where she heavily crashed in the women's junior road race. Charly Mottet was an UCI-official at the race. Eva would never fully recover. She died young in April 2020, aged 25.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Mottet won a total of 67 races, including the Tour de Romandie in 1990, and rode eight times in the Tour de France. His best results in the Tour de France were 4th-place finishes in 1987 and 1991. He won three stages, one in 1990 (Stage 15:: Millau - Revel) and two in 1991 (Stage 11:: Quimper - Saint-Herblain and Stage 12:: Pau - Jaca). He also finished 2nd in the 1990 Giro d'Italia.

During his professional cycling career, Mottet had a reputation within the peloton as being a totally clean rider who never used performance-enhancing drugs. He is former FICP World No. 1 (in May and August 1989).

After retiring from racing, Mottet became involved in race organising, working on the Critérium du Dauphiné (where he was *istant director) for 14 years, before being appointed sports manager of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in 2010. He also served as selector for the French national cycling team at the 1997 and 1998 Road World Championships, and as a technical delegate for the Union Cycliste Internationale at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.

Major results

19822nd Paris–Troyes19832nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg1st Stage 12nd Overall Route du Sud1st Stage 25th Overall Tour du Vaucluse6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir19841st Overall Tour de l'Avenir1st Stage 71st Young rider cl*ification Giro d'Italia1st Liedekerkse Pijl1st Stage 5 Clásico RCN2nd Paris–Brussels6th Grand Prix de Cannes9th Overall Tour de Romandie19851st Overall Tour du Haut Var1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise1st Grand Prix des Nations1st Giro del Piemonte1st Duo Normand (with Thierry Marie)1st Stages 9 & 11 Tour de l'Avenir2nd Overall Paris–Bourges3rd Firenze–Pistoia5th Overall Critérium International6th Overall Etoile de Bessèges1st Stage 38th Overall Tour du Limousin9th Overall Paris–Nice1st Stage 7a19861st Stages 9 & 11 Vuelta a España1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx1st Breuillet1st Stage 2 Tour du Vaucluse2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships2nd Overall Route du Sud1st Stage 12nd Firenze–Pistoia3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya3rd Paris–Tours4th Overall Critérium International4th Grand Prix des Nations9th Overall Paris–Nice10th La Flèche Wallonne19871st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré1st Six-Days of Grenoble (with Bernard Vallet)1st Overall Tour du Limousin1st Stage 11st Chateauroux–Limoges1st Critérium des As1st Grand Prix des Nations1st GP de Vannes1st Montreuil1st Quilan3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk3rd GP Eddy Merckx4th Overall Tour de France4th Paris–Tours9th Giro di Lombardia19881st Giro di Lombardia1st Overall Six-Days of Grenoble (with Roman Hermann)1st Giro del Lazio1st Grand Prix des Nations1st Overall Tour du Vaucluse1st Stage 2b2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk1st Stage 6a (ITT)2nd GP Ouest–France2nd Overall Paris–Bourges1st Stage 22nd Overall Tour Méditerranéen3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré1st Stage 33rd Overall Euskal Bizikleta3rd Trofeo Baracchi3rd Grand Prix de Wallonie4th La Flèche Wallonne5th Overall Ronde van Nederland7th Tour of Flanders7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège8th GP Eddy Merckx10th Trophée des Grimpeurs19891st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré1st Stage 31st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk1st Stage 3b1st Overall Six Days of Paris (with Etienne De Wilde)1st Boucles de l'Aulne1st Giro del Lazio1st Châteaulin1st Stage 3 Tour d'Armorique2nd Overall Tour of Ireland2nd Overall Critérium International2nd Tre Valli Varesine3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico1st Stage 63rd Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana3rd GP des Amériques3rd Grand Prix des Nations4th Clásica de San Sebastián4th Overall Grand Prix du Midi-Libre1st Prologue6th Overall Tour de France7th Trophée des Grimpeurs10th Overall Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde19901st Stage 15 Tour de France1st Overall Tour de Romandie1st Prologue & Stage 3b1st Züri-Metzgete2nd Overall Giro d'Italia1st Stage 165th Overall Tour Méditerranéen5th Grand Prix de Lunel:6th Trofeo Baracchi19911st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk1st Cl*ique des Alpes1st Stage 2 Tour d'Armorique2nd Coppa Agostoni3rd Overall Critérium International1st Stage 23rd Giro dell'Emilia4th Overall Tour de France1st Stages 11 & 125th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía6th Trophée des Grimpeurs9th Trofeo Luis Puig10th Clásica de San Sebastián19921st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré1st Stage 81st Coppa Bernocchi3rd Overall Tour de Romandie5th Trophée des Grimpeurs8th Overall Volta a Catalunya10th Overall Paris–Nice19931st Overall Tour du Limousin1st Stage 4b1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen1st Stage 32nd Züri-Metzgete3rd Overall Etoile de Bessèges4th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise5th Giro di Lombardia19941st Stage 7 Paris–Nice2nd Paris–Camembert3rd Overall Route du Sud5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen5th Grand Prix des Nations8th Overall Etoile de Bessèges

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Charly Mottet at Cycling Archives
• Official Tour de France results for Charly Mottet