Frédéric Moncassin (born 26 September 1968) is a French former

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

. He turned professional in 1990 and retired in 1999. He competed in the men's individual road race at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. Moncassin was a strong roadman-sprinter known for his tussles with other riders in the last metres of a race. He clashed with Tom Steels and Mario Cipollini among others. He won 30 races and led the Tour de France for a day in 1996. He also came close to winning the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. ''Procycling'' said when he retired: "It was the 1998 Tour that, in hindsight, probably spelt the end for Fred. Under intense pressure to come up with a stage win, he struggled through the first week, only to see the race collapse around him as the Festina Scandal took hold. His unfashionable criticism of Richard Virenque - "he's an asshole and you can quote me," he told the French paper 'La Dépêche' at the time - allied to his own poor form, and his increasingly public concern that all cyclists were now tarred with the same brush, left him as a fringe character." His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the

1998 Tour de France The 1998 Tour de France was the 85th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The race was composed of 21 stages and a prologue. It started on 11 July in Ireland before taking an anti-clockwise route through France to finis ...

and found suspicious for EPO when retested in 2004.

Retirement

Moncassin was selector for the French national road team from 2004 to 2008, when he was succeeded by Laurent Jalabert.

Major results

;1990 :1st Stages 2 & 4, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues :1st

Grand Prix de Denain Grand Prix de Denain is a professional cycle road race held in Denain, France. For 10 years from 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before becoming a 1.HC The UCI 1.HC and UCI 2.HC are the second tier classifica ...

;1991 :1st

:1st Stage 3 Tour d'Armorique ;1992 :1st Grand Prix du Nord-Pas-de-Calais :1st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges :1st Stage 5b Tour Méditerranéen ;1993 : 1st Overall Tour de l'Oise ::1st Stages 1 & 2 ::1st Points classification : 1st Stage 3 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir ;1994 :1st Stage 2

Grand Prix du Midi Libre The Grand Prix du Midi Libre (referred to as just Midi Libre) was a multiple-stage road cycling course in the south of France. The race, named after the newspaper that organized it, was first organized in 1949 and was an important preparation cou ...

;1995 :1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1996 :1st Stages 1 & 19 Tour de France :1st Stage 1

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlookin ...

:1st Stages 1 & 3

:1st Stages 1 & 4, Route du Sud ;1997 :2nd Tour of Flanders ;1998 :3rd

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...

;2009 :1st

Red Bull Road Rage The Red Bull Road Rage is an extreme downhill on-road bike competition. The competition was first held in 2005 as a pro-invite only event, but since 2008 Red Bull has opened it up to amateur and professional racers. Red Bull Road Rage has seen e ...

, France

References

External links

Frédéric Moncassin Palmarès by France-cyclisme.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moncassin, Frederic 1968 births Living people French male cyclists French Tour de France stage winners Sportspeople from Haute-Garonne Olympic cyclists for France Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Occitania (administrative region)