Roger Legeay
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Roger Legeay is a French
former professional racing cyclist and the manager of Crédit Agricole
cycling team. Legeay had managed the Peugeot cycling team
in its last year of existence in 1986, before it was reinvented as Z-Peugeot. The team was renamed GAN in 1994 under new sponsorship and once again in 1997 when it changed sponsors to Credit Agricole. The team officially disbanded at the end of the 2008 season when Crédit Agricole
ended their sponsorship.
He finished 84th in the 1980 Tour de France
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In 1974 he tested positive for amphetamines at the Paris–Nice "race to the sun".
1977
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1981
1982
France
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former professional racing cyclist and the manager of Crédit Agricole
Crédit Agricole (cycling team)
Crédit Agricole was a French professional cycling team managed by Roger Legeay and sponsored by the French bank, Crédit Agricole, since 1997. Before 1997 the team was known as GAN. Since 2005, the team is one of the 20 that compete in the UCI ProTour. Crédit Agricole announced that they would...
cycling team. Legeay had managed the Peugeot cycling team
Peugeot (cycling team)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on www.cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon.-History:...
in its last year of existence in 1986, before it was reinvented as Z-Peugeot. The team was renamed GAN in 1994 under new sponsorship and once again in 1997 when it changed sponsors to Credit Agricole. The team officially disbanded at the end of the 2008 season when Crédit Agricole
Crédit Agricole
Crédit Agricole S.A. is the largest retail banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index....
ended their sponsorship.
He finished 84th in the 1980 Tour de France
1980 Tour de France
The 1980 Tour de France was the 67th Tour de France. The total distance was 3945.5 km over 22 stages, the average speed of the riders was 35.317 km/h....
.
In 1974 he tested positive for amphetamines at the Paris–Nice "race to the sun".
Palmarès
1976- 2nd Brette-les-Pins
- 3rd General Classification Quatre jours de Dunkerque
- 2nd Vailly-sur-Sauldre
- 3rd Vendôme
1977
- 2nd GP Ouest France
- 2nd Neufchatel-en-Bray
- 3rd Stage 5, Tour de Suisse, Fiesch
- 3rd Le Quillo
1978
- 2nd Camors
- 2nd Chauffailles
- 1st Fougères
- 2nd GP de Mauléon Moulins
- 3rd GP des Herbiers
- 2nd Lannion
- 2nd Neufchatel-en-Bray
- 1st Stage 4, Tour de Romandie, Montreux
- 1st Stage 2, Circuit de la SartheCircuit de la Sarthe (cycling)The Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire is an early-season short road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour....
1979
- 3rd Camors
- 3rd Châteauroux - Classic de l'Indre
- 2nd Plessala, Plessala
- 1st Agon-Coutainville
1980
- 1st Cholet-Pays de LoireCholet-Pays de LoireGrand 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...
- 2nd Circuit des genêts verts
- 1st GP de Mauléon Moulins
- 3rd Ploërdut
- 2nd Tour de Vendée
- 2nd Stage 1, Circuit de la Sarthe
- 1st Stage 3, Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2nd Maël-Pestivien
- 1st Josselin
- 2nd Changé
1981
- 1st Cholet-Pays de LoireCholet-Pays de LoireGrand 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...
- 1st GP de Mauléon Moulins
- 1st Lisieux, Criterium, Lisieux
- 2nd Chateau-Chinon
- 2nd Pointe-à-Pitre
1982
- 1st Rouen
- 2nd Joeuf