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Yohann Gène
	Gène at the 2010 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full name	Yohann Gène
Born	25 June 1981 (age 43); Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur teams
2000–2004	Vendée U–Pays de la Loire
2003	Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire)
2004	Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire)
Professional team
2005–2019	Bouygues Télécom

Yohann Gène (born 25 June 1981 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2019, entirely for Bouygues Télécom and its later iterations.^[3] He was the first black cyclist, as well as the first cyclist of Afro-Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African descent, to ever compete in the Tour de France.^[4]

Major results

2003

2nd La Côte Picarde

9th Overall Tour de la Somme

2004

6th Grand Prix des Marbriers

2007

5th Grand Prix de la Somme

2009

1st Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi

2010

2nd Val d'Ille Classic

5th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

1st Stage 5

2011

1st Stage 3 Tour of South Africa

7th Boucles de l'Aulne

9th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

1st Stages 2 & 5

2012

3rd Châteauroux Classic

5th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 1 & 5

10th Tallinn–Tartu GP

2013

1st

Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

1st

Points classification

1st Stage 6

1st Stage 2 Route du Sud

2014

1st Stage 3 Boucles de la Mayenne

7th Grand Prix de Fourmies

2015

1st

Points classification La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

2016

6th Tro-Bro Léon

2017

1st

Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

1st Stage 5

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Giro d'Italia	—	149	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	—	158	139	158	128	137	158	134
Vuelta a España	126	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

References

^ Bonamy, Raphaël (1 September 2017). "Direct Énergie: le point sur l'effectif 2018" [Direct Énergie: Roster Update 2018]. Ouest-France (in French). Groupe Ouest-France. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
^ "Direct Énergie". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
^ "Yohann Gène arrêtera sa carrière à la fin de la saison" [Yohann Gene to end his career at the end of the season]. L'Équipe (in French). Éditions Philippe Amaury. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
^ "Meet Yohann Gène, the First Black Cyclist Ever in the Tour de France". Time. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.

External links

Profile at Bouygues Télécom official website
Yohann Gène at UCI
Yohann Gène at ProCyclingStats
Yohann Gène at Cycling Archives (archived)

[1] Bonamy, Raphaël (1 September 2017). "Direct Énergie: le point sur l'effectif 2018" [Direct Énergie: Roster Update 2018]. Ouest-France (in French). Groupe Ouest-France. Retrieved 22 January 2018.

[2] "Direct Énergie". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 14 January 2019.

[3] "Yohann Gène arrêtera sa carrière à la fin de la saison" [Yohann Gene to end his career at the end of the season]. L'Équipe (in French). Éditions Philippe Amaury. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.

[4] "Meet Yohann Gène, the First Black Cyclist Ever in the Tour de France". Time. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.

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