1. Julien Absalon (1980)

French Racing Cyclist

BMX rider who was the overall winner of the World Cup mountain bike cross-country series in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, and 2016. He has 190,000 followers on his julien_absalon Instagram account. 

2. Joris Daudet (1991)

French Racing Cyclist

French BMX biker who, in 2011, won 12 out of 12 European Tour events en route to a World Championship victory at Copenhagen that year. He also represented France at...

3. Jeannie Longo (1958)

French Racing Cyclist

One of the greatest female road cyclists ever, she has won more than a dozen world championships, and took home a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

4. Félicia Ballanger (1971)

French Racing Cyclist

Former French racing cyclist who won 5 World Championships in the 1990s. She also won three Olympic Gold medals, two in the sprint event and one in the 500 meter...

5. Bernard Hinault (1954)

French Racing Cyclist

French cyclist known for his five victories in the Tour de France.

6. Maryline Salvetat (1974)

French Racing Cyclist

Maryline Salvetat is a French cyclist born in Castres. She participates in road cycling as well as in cyclo-cross and mountain biking. In 2002 2004 and 2005 she became French...

7. Sonia Huguet (1975)

French Racing Cyclist

Sonia Huguet is a French racing cyclist who represented France at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was a professional rider between 1994 and 2005.

8. Guillaume Blot (1985)

French Racing Cyclist

Guillaume Blot is a French racing cyclist who rides for the Bretagne-Séché Environnement team.

9. Didier Henriette (1985)

French Racing Cyclist

Didier Henriette is a French professional racing cyclist.

10. Romain Villa (1985)

French Racing Cyclist

Romain Villa is a French road bicycle racer.

11. Jacques Marinelli (1925)

French Racing Cyclist

Jacques Marinelli is a former French cyclist. He wore the yellow jersey of leadership for six days in the 1949 Tour de France before finishing third.

12. Robert Cazala (1934)

French Racing Cyclist

Robert Cazala is a former French cyclist. He became professional in 1958 and stayed with the same team Mercier-BP-Hutchinson until he retired in 1968. During his career he had 36...

13. Morgan Kneisky (1987)

French Racing Cyclist

Morgan Kneisky is a French track and road racing cyclist. He is a member of Team Raleigh and the 2009 World Scratch Race champion.

14. Virginie Cueff (1988)

French Racing Cyclist

Virginie Cueff is a French professional racing cyclist.

15. Sandie Clair (1988)

French Racing Cyclist

Sandie Clair is a French professional racing cyclist. She won her first title in 2005 in the national junior sprint championship. It qualified her for the European junior championship in...

16. Moana Moo-Caille (1988)

French Racing Cyclist

Moana Moo Caille is a French racing cyclist who represents France in BMX. He has been selected to represent France at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's BMX event.

17. Lucien Aimar (1941)

French Racing Cyclist

Lucien Aimar is a French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1966 and the national road championship in 1968. He is now a race organizer. He was born...

18. Bernard Sainz (1943)

French Racing Cyclist

Bernard Sainz aka Dr Mabuse is a medicine practitioner who achieved great success in horse racing and cycling.

19. Arthur Vichot (1988)

French Racing Cyclist

Arthur Vichot is a French professional cyclist and member of UCI ProTeam FDJ. fr. He is the nephew of Frédéric Vichot who won stages in the Tour de France in...

20. Daniel Morelon (1944)

French Racing Cyclist

Daniel Morelon is a retired French racing cyclist who was active between 1963 and 1980. He is a triple Olympic champion eight times world champion and a knight of the...

21. Marcel Tinazzi (1953)

French Racing Cyclist

Marcel Tinazzi is a former French professional road bicycle racer of Italian parents. He was the cousin of an Italian professional cyclist Giorgio Tinazzi. He was a professional cyclist from...

22. Daniel Rebillard (1948)

French Racing Cyclist

Daniel Rebillard is a French racing cyclist and olympic champion in track cycling. He received a gold medal in 4000m individual pursuit at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

23. Bernard Gauthier (1924)

French Racing Cyclist

Bernard Gauthier is a retired French road racing cyclist who was professional from 1947 to 1961. He won Bordeaux–Paris four times.

24. André Chalmel (1949)

French Racing Cyclist

André Chalmel is a French former road racing cyclist born in Saint-Malo. He was during a few years one of Bernard Hinault's team-mates on the Renault-Elf-Gitane professional cycling team. He...

25. Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (1954)

French Racing Cyclist

Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle is a former French professional road racing cyclist who was a specialist at one-day classic cycling races. He raced from 1977 to 1995 one of the best French...

26. Samuel Plouhinec (1976)

French Racing Cyclist

Samuel Plouhinec is a French former road bicycle racer. He retired in 2007. He won stage 4 in 2005 Tour de l'Ain.

27. Miguel Martinez (cyclist) (1976)

French Racing Cyclist

Miguel Martinez is a French cyclist specializing in competitive cross-country mountain biking. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Australia after having finished in third...

28. Geneviève Gambillon (1951)

French Racing Cyclist

Geneviève Gambillon is a former Luxembourgian road bicycle racer. She became the women's Road World Champion in 1972 and again in 1974. She retired from competition in 1978 and became...

29. Laurent Biondi (1959)

French Racing Cyclist

Laurent Biondi is a former French cyclist. He was the Amateur Champion of France in 1982 and turned professional in 1983 competing until 1993. Later he was the team manager...

30. Alain Bondue (1959)

French Racing Cyclist

Alain Bondue is a racing cyclist from France. He competed for France in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow Soviet Union in the individual pursuit event where he finished...

31. Rachel Dard (1951)

French Racing Cyclist

Rachel Dard was a French professional cyclist said to have raced across France to avoid a positive dope finding and ended up in a row which exposed organised drug-taking in...

32. Fabrice Colas (1964)

French Racing Cyclist

brice Colas is a retired French track cyclist who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles winning a bronze medal in the 1000 metres time trial.

33. Francis Moreau (1965)

French Racing Cyclist

s Moreau is a French former professional racing cyclist from Saint-Quentin. He turned professional in 1989 and retired 12 years later at the end of 2000. A pursuit specialist Moreau...

34. Frédéric Moncassin (1968)

French Racing Cyclist

édéric Moncassin is a French former road racing cyclist. He turned professional in 1990 and retired in 1999. Moncassin was a strong roadman-sprinter known for his tussles with other riders...

35. Christophe Dupouey (1968)

French Racing Cyclist

Christophe Dupouey was a French mountain biker. In 1996 he won the gold medal in the men's cross country section of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. In 1998 he...

36. Armand de Las Cuevas (1968)

French Racing Cyclist

Armand de Las Cuevas is a retired French racing cyclist. He won prestigious races like the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Clásica de San Sebastián. A time trial specialist...

37. François Lemarchand (1960)

French Racing Cyclist

çois Lemarchand is a former French cyclist who during the 1980s and 1990s participated in ten Tours de France. He was a professional cyclist between 1985 and 1997.

38. Josiane Bost (1956)

French Racing Cyclist

Josiane Bost is a former French racing cyclist who was world road champion in 1977. She twice won the national pursuit championship and once the national sprint championship.

39. Laurent Jalabert (1968)

French Racing Cyclist

Laurent Jalabert is a French former professional road racing cyclist from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as Jaja he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1...

40. Dante Coccolo (1957)

French Racing Cyclist

Dante Coccolo is a French professional bicycle racer now known primarily for one incident during the Tour de France. In the 1978 Tour during the Bordeaux-Biarritz stage Coccolo violated racing...

41. Richard Virenque (1969)

French Racing Cyclist

Richard Virenque is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans for his boyish personality and his long lone attacks....

42. Christophe Agnolutto (1969)

French Racing Cyclist

Christophe Agnolutto is a professional road bicycle racer from France. Agnolutto was a commercial artist when as an amateur in 1995 he won Bordeaux-Saintes and the GP Nord-Pas de Calais...

43. Laurent Desbiens (1969)

French Racing Cyclist

Laurent Desbiens was a French cyclist between 1992 and 2001. He won the Four Days of Dunkirk and won a stage in the 1997 Tour de France and wore the...

44. Pascal Hervé (1964)

French Racing Cyclist

Pascal Hervé is a former French road racing cyclist.

45. Barbara Buatois (1977)

French Racing Cyclist

Barbara Buatois is a French cyclist and one of the fastest female recumbent racers and ultra cyclists. Buatois was born in Oullins. She rides recumbent bikes over the complete world...

46. Cathy Moncassin (1977)

French Racing Cyclist

Cathy Moncassin-Prime is a French track racing cyclist from Bonnetage. She is also the niece of Frédéric Moncassin also a former professional cyclist.

47. Nathalie Lancien (1970)

French Racing Cyclist

Nathalie Lancien is a French racing cyclist and olympic champion in track cycling. She received a gold medal in the points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

48. Anne-Caroline Chausson (1977)

French Racing Cyclist

Anne-Caroline Chausson is a French professional cyclist who competes in bicycle motocross downhill time trial and cross-country mass start dual and four-cross mountain bicycle racing. She is best known for...

49. Arnaud Tournant (1978)

French Racing Cyclist

Arnaud Tournant is a French track cyclist. He has won 14 World Championships and won a gold silver and a bronze at the Summer Olympics.

50. Catherine Marsal (1971)

French Racing Cyclist

Catherine Marsal is a retired female racing cyclist from France. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally around the world. At the age of 17 she was...