Sébastien Chavanel (born 21 March 1981) is a French former professional

road bicycle racer 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 com ...

who last rode for UCI ProTeam . He is a younger brother, by just under 2 years, to fellow professional cyclist Sylvain Chavanel. After three seasons with , Chavanel returned to for the 2014 season. At the 2015 Tour of Flanders, Chavanel sustained right thigh

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as a neutral service car rammed his team car which was stopped behind him to change his bike's wheel. By finishing in last place in the 2015 Tour de France, he was that year's lanterne rouge rider.

Major results

;2002 : 1st La Côte Picarde : 1st Stage 3 Ronde de l'Isard : 5th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 7th Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships ;2003 : Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stages 2 & 3 ;2004 : Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 2, 4 & 5 : 1st Stage 5

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a ...

: 4th Overall Tour de Picardie ;2006 : 1st Stage 3 GP Internacional da Costa Azul ;2007 : 1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup : 1st

Grand Prix de Denain Grand Prix de Denain is a professional road bicycle racing, cycle road race held in Denain, France. For 10 years from 2005 the race was organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before becoming a 1.HC event for th ...

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a ...

::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 5 : 1st Stage 3 Tour de Picardie : 1st Stage 3 Tour de Poitou-Charentes et de la Vienne : 2nd Tro-Bro Léon : 3rd

Grand Prix d'Isbergues Grand Prix d'Isbergues is a professional cycle road race held in Isbergues, Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which ...

: 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 5th Châteauroux Classic de l Indre ;2008 : 1st Overall Tour de Picardie ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd Grand Prix de la Ville de Rennes ;2009 : 3rd

Nokere Koerse Nokere Koerse is a European semi classic single day cycle race held in the Belgian region of Flanders. The Nokere Koerse was created in 1944, initially as the ''Grand Prix Jules Lowie'' in honour of 1938 Paris–Nice winner Jules Lowie who ...

: 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 ...

;2010 : 5th

: 6th

: 10th

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m ...

;2011 : 1st Stage 2 Circuit de Lorraine : 3rd

La Roue Tourangelle La Roue Tourangelle is a road bicycle race held annually in the Region Centre-Val de Loire, France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territo ...

: 5th Overall

: 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 8th Le Samyn : 9th Overall Driedaagse van West Vlaanderen ;2012 : 2nd Neuseen Classics : 7th Overall Tour de Picardie : 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

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Europcar Profile
French male cyclists 1981 births Living people People from Châtellerault Sportspeople from Vienne (department) Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine French people of Spanish descent Sportspeople of Spanish descent 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-bio-1980s-stub