Jacky Durand (born 10 February 1967 in

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) is a French former professional

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. Durand had an attacking style, winning the

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in 1992 after a breakaway, and three stages in the

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. Durand turned professional in 1990. He was national road champion in 1993 and 1994 and won

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in 1998, the first French winner in 42 years. Durand rode seven Tours de France, finishing last in the 1999 race. In

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he was the surprise winner of the prologue, starting before it began raining. He wore the

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for two days. Durand won the

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in the

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and

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; the latter year he also took the

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. He retired at the end of 2004. He has since worked for

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as a commentator.

Amateur career

Durand was born to a poor farming family in the Mayenne region of northern France. He started racing in the ''minime'' class, the very youngest, but never won a race there or in the older ''cadet'' category. "It's difficult to win as a kid when you're neither a climber nor a sprinter," he said. "For me, the most beautiful jersey in the world is the French champion's. Yes, when they play the

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for you after a championship and then you go and show it off for three weeks in the Tour de France, the national flag on your shoulders, it's emotion and pleasure every day." As a senior, however, he won the national amateur team time-trial championship in 1988 with Laurent Bezault, Pascal Lino and Thierry Laurent. He turned professional in 1991.

Lone breaks

Durand became celebrated for long, lone attacks which sometimes succeeded but usually didn't. The French magazine, ''Vélo'', printed a monthly ''Jackymètre'' to log the kilometres ridden at the head of races during the course of the season. Durand said: "Fortunately, in cycling, it's not always the best who wins, otherwise we wouldn't win so often." His riding style was encouraged by his first

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. It brought him a seemingly suicidal win in the

(''see below''). Guimard told him to attack early in the national championship at Châtellerault in 1993, to try his chance and to spoil those of

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and

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. The writer, Jean-François Quénet, said Guimard told Durand to attack far from the finish "because he didn't want to see Laurent Brochard in blue, white and red and even less did he want a second consecutive title for Luc Leblanc, who was in disgrace in the Castorama team.". Of the way he rode, Durand said: :I'm not a revolutionary of any sort, but on the bike, I've always refused to come out of a mould. It astonishes me that most riders are followers, even sheep. A lot of them, the only people who know they're in the Tour are their ''directeurs sportifs''. I couldn't do the job like that. They finish the Tour without having attacked once, maybe the whole of the season, even the whole of their career. I'd rather finish shattered and last having attacked a hundred times than finish 25th without having tried. Yes, I get ragged about it, but it's always in a friendly way. In the bunch, the guys know that ''Dudu'' is as likely to finish a long way behind them as first.

Tour of Flanders

Durand won the Ronde van Vlaanderen, or

, in 1992, 36 years after the last French winner,

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, in 1956. He broke away from the field with

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after a quarter of the race, with 217 km still to ride. His success as an outsider, and after such a long lone ride, stayed in the memory of Belgian fans. Years later, Durand was stopped for speeding. The Belgian policeman who came to his car said, "''Vous avez gagné le Tour des Flandres en nonante-deux"'' ("You won the Tour of Flanders in '92''"'') - and let him drive on. Durand finished his career with Belgian teams. "Winning the Ronde made me a bit of a naturalised Belgian," he said.

Doping and disqualification

Durand took drugs during the Tour de la Côte Picarde in 1996 and was given a one-month probationary suspension. He was disqualified during the Tour de France in 2002 for holding on to a car during the mountainous stage to the Plateau de Beille in the Pyrenees. There had been complaints from riders, including the Czech, Jan Svorada, that he had done the same the previous year. His name was on the list of doping tests published by the

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on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the

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and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.

Retirement

Durand retired from racing in 2005 after receiving no team offers. He followed that year's Tour de France as representative of the supermarket chain, Champion. He is now a television commentator for Eurosport.

Private life

Durand stayed loyal to his first club, CC Renzé, throughout his career. He lives in

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. On 25 November 2017, Durand's 80-year-old father, Henri Durand, was reported missing by his wife, Colette, after he went out for his usual bicycle ride and never returned. His body was found in a lake on 2 January 2018, in between

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and Saint-Michel-de-la-Roë. An autopsy confirmed he had died from drowning.

Major results

;1988 : 1st Stage 4a ( ITT)

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;1990 : 4th

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;1991 : 1st

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;1992 : 1st

;1993 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey green

Points classification Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;1994 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 10

Tour du Limousin Tour du Limousin is a 4-day road bicycle race held annually in Limousin, France. It was first held in 1968 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2011 it was upgraded to an 2.HC The UCI 1.HC and UCI 2.HC ar ...

::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 3rd

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: 7th Overall

Tour de l'Oise The Tour de Picardie was a professional multi-stage cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy, France. In its last twelve editions, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a se ...

;1995 :

::1st Prologue ::Held Jersey yellow

after Prologue & Stage 1 ::Held Jersey green

after Prologue : 1st Stage 4

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 ...

: 3rd Overall

: 8th

Cholet-Pays de Loire Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Cholet, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle rac ...

;1996 : 2nd Overall

Tour du Poitou Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Eu ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour de Normandie Tour de Normandie is a road bicycle race held annually in the region of Normandy, France. The race started in 1939, but was not held in the periods of 1940–1955 and 1960–1980. It was originally a race for amateurs, but was opened for professi ...

: 2nd

GP de la Ville de Rennes Grand Prix Cycliste de la Ville de Rennes was a professional cycle road race held in Rennes, France until 2008 when it was last organised, with the organisers citing financial difficulties as the reason. Since 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 ...

: 3rd

Tour de Vendée Tour of Vendée is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in October (Previously May) in the region of Vendée, France, finishing in a circuit inside La Roche-sur-Yon town. From 2005 until 2009, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the ...

: 9th Overall

Route du Sud The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...

;1997 : 2nd

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: 5th

Paris–Bourges Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities a ...

: 5th

;1998 : 1st

::1st Stage 8 :: Jersey red number

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: 1st Stage 2

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages ...

::1st Stage 7 : 2nd

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: 3rd Overall

: 4th

Grand Prix des Nations The Grand Prix des Nations was an individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa ...

: 7th

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(with

Marc Streel Marc Streel (born 12 August 1971 in Waremme) is a Belgian former racing cyclist. Major results ;1993 :2nd Overall Tour de Liège ;1994 :3rd Duo Normand (with Peter Verbeken) ;1996 :1st Flèche Hesbignonne :1st Stage 3 Tour de Picardie :2nd Bo ...

) ;1999 : 1st Stage 5

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: 3rd

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...

::Held

after Stages 1–2 :

;2000 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::7th

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: 5th Overall

Bayern–Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt ( en, Tour of Bavaria) was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was orga ...

;2001 : 1st

Tro-Bro Léon Tro-Bro Léon ( en, Tour of Léon, french: Tour du Léon) is a professional cycle road race held in Finistère, Brittany. The event was first run in 1984 as an amateur race before becoming a professional race since 2000. The race was established ...

: 2nd Overall

: 7th

GP de Fourmies The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. Since 2005 it has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which we ...

: 10th

(with

Bradley McGee Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). He started cycling in 1986 at the ...

) ;2002 : 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 2nd Overall

Tour de Picardie The Tour de Picardie was a professional multi-stage cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy, France. In its last twelve editions, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a se ...

: 2nd

: 5th Tartu Tänavasóit : 5th

GP Rudy Dhaenens Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens was a professional road bicycle race held annually in Nevele (Belgium) to honor the former World Racing Champion Rudy Dhaenens. In 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circ ...

: 7th E.O.S. Tallinn GP ;2003 : 3rd

: 8th Tartu Tänavasóit : 8th E.O.S. Tallinn GP

References

External links

Jacky Durand fan web site
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