Christophe Brandt (born 6 May 1977) is a

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former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2010 for the and teams. He now works as the general manager for

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, and as a

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for its junior team, UCI Continental team .

Career

Born in Liège, Brandt started his career with , but after one year he transferred to and stayed there for the rest of his career. In the early 2000s he was a good rider in the Grand Tours, like a 14th place in the

2004 Giro d'Italia The 2004 Giro d'Italia was the 87th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It began in Genoa with a prologue. The race came to a close with a mass-start road stage that stretched from Clusone to Milan. Nineteen teams en ...

and 33rd in the

2002 Tour de France The 2002 Tour de France was a multiple-stage bicycle race held from 6 to 28 July, and the 89th edition of the Tour de France. The event started in Luxembourg and ended in Paris. The Tour circled France counter-clockwise, visiting the Pyrenees b ...

. In 2004, he returned a positive test for

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. He believed the test was a result of a tainted nutritional supplement that he had taken to cure a liver problem. The chemist who had prepared Brandt's prescription confirmed he had been working with methadone on the same day he had prepared Brandt's prescription. This did not satisfy Brandt's team management, who fired him. However, later in the year the Belgian Cycling Federation exonerated Brandt, and his team rehired him. He stayed with them for the remainder of his career before retiring from competition in 2010. After two years with as a

, Brandt joined the team in 2014.

Major results

;2002 : 1st Course du Raisin ;2007 : 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Coppi e Bartali

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* * 1977 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Belgium Sportspeople from Liège Cyclists from Liège Province {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1970s-stub

Career

Major results

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