Charly Mottet
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| Full name | Charly Mottet | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Petit Charly | ||||||||||||
| Born | 16 December 1962 Valence, Drôme, France |
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Allround | ||||||||||||
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| 1983-1985 1986-1988 1989-1992 1993-1994 |
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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, Mottet won a total of 67 races, including the Tour de Romandie in 1990, and has 8 participations in the Tour de France. His best results in the Tour de France were the 4th positions in 1987 and 1991. He has 3 stage wins, 1 in 1990 (Stage 15 : Millau - Revel) and 2 in 1991 (Stage 11 : Quimper - Saint-Herblain and Stage 12 : Pau - Jaca). He also finished 2nd on the podium of 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.[1][2]
[edit] Palmarès
- 1984
- Liedekerkse Pijl
- Giro d'Italia:
Winner young rider classification
- Tour de l'Avenir
- 1985
- Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- Tour du Haut Var
- Grand Prix des Nations
- Giro del Piemonte
- Duo Normand (with Thierry Marie)
- 1986
- Breuillet
- Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stages 9 and 11
- 1987
- Chateauroux - Limoges
- Critérium des As
- Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- GP de Vannes
- Montreuil
- Quilan
- Tour du Limousin
- Grand Prix des Nations
- Six-Days of Grenoble (with Bernard Vallet)
- Tour de France:
- 4th place overall classification
- 1988
- Giro del Lazio
- Grand Prix des Nations
- Giro di Lombardia
- Six-Days of Grenoble (with Roman Hermann)
- 1989
- Boucles de l'Aulne
- Châteaulin
- Giro del Lazio
- Four Days of Dunkirk
- Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- Six Days of Paris (with Etienne De Wilde)
- Tour de France:
- 6th place overall classification
- 1990
- Tour de Romandie
- Züri-Metzgete
- Four Days of Dunkirk
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 15
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 16
- 2nd place overall classification
- 1991
- Classique des Alpes
- Tour de France:
- 4th place overall classification
- Winner stages 11 and 12
- 1992
- Coppa Bernocchi
- Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1993
- Tour du Limousin
- Tour Méditerranéen
- 1994
- Route du Sud
[edit] External links
- Charly Mottet profile at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Charly Mottet
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.newstrot.com/node/5073 Greg Lemond on doping practices from 1990 (french)
- ^ Extract from 'Massacre a la Chaine' by Willy Voet
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