Roger Legeay
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Roger Legeay is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 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 Sarthe
Circuit 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 Loire
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...

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 Loire
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...

1st GP de Mauléon Moulins
1st Lisieux, Criterium, Lisieux
2nd Chateau-Chinon
2nd Pointe-à-Pitre


1982
1st Rouen
2nd Joeuf
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