Christophe Dupouey
Appearance
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Born | 8 August 1968 Tarbes, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 February 2009 Tarbes, France | (aged 40)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Mountain bike Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christophe Dupouey (8 August 1968 – 4 February 2009) 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 won the gold medal in the same section of the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. Dupouey also competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, placing 4th in Atlanta.[1]
In 2006 he was given a suspended three-month prison sentence for participating in a trafficking network for "pot belge", a mix of cocaine, caffeine, pain killers, sometimes amphetamines and heroin.[2]
Dupouey committed suicide on 4 February 2009 at the age of 40.[3]
References
- ^ Christophe Dupouey bio at sports-reference.com
- ^ "Christophe Dupouey Commits Suicide - BikeRadar". Archived from the original on 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
- ^ Mountain bike 1998 World Champion Dupouey commits suicide Archived 2009-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
Categories:
- 1968 births
- 2009 suicides
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- French male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for France
- Sportspeople from Tarbes
- Suicides in France
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (men)
- 2009 deaths
- Cyclists from Occitania (administrative region)
- 20th-century French people
- 21st-century French people
- French cycling biography, 1960s birth stubs