Christophe Dupouey
French cyclist
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| Born | 8 August 1968 Tarbes, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 February 2009(2009-02-04) (aged 40) Tarbes, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christophe Dupouey (8 August 1968 – 4 February 2009) was a French mountain biker. In 1996 he won the gold medal in the men's cross country section of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. In 1998 he won the gold medal in the same section of the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. Dupouey also competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, placing 4th in Atlanta.[1]
In 2006 he was given a suspended three-month prison sentence for participating in a trafficking network for "pot belge", a mix of cocaine, caffeine, pain killers, sometimes amphetamines and heroin.[2]
Dupouey committed suicide on 4 February 2009 at the age of 40.[3]
References
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- Ned Overend (1990)
- John Tomac (1991)
- Henrik Djernis (1992–1994)
- Bart Brentjens (1995)
- Thomas Frischknecht (1996)
- Hubert Pallhuber (1997)
- Christophe Dupouey (1998)
- Michael Rasmussen (1999)
- Miguel Martinez (2000)
- Roland Green (2001–2002)
- Filip Meirhaeghe (2003)
- Julien Absalon (2004–2007)
- Christoph Sauser (2008)
- Nino Schurter (2009)
- José Antonio Hermida (2010)
- Jaroslav Kulhavý (2011)
- Nino Schurter (2012–2013)
- Julien Absalon (2014)
- Nino Schurter (2015–2019)
- Jordan Sarrou (2020)
- Nino Schurter (2021–2022)
- Tom Pidcock (2023)
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