Sylvain Chavanel

What impresses me about Sylvain Chavanel is not a single headline win but the sheer span of his career, riding professionally from 2000 to 2018 across Cofidis, Quick-Step and beyond. Eighteen years in the brutal grind of road cycling demands a quiet, blue-collar resilience I admire far more than flash. Coming out of Chatellerault with his brother Sebastien also racing, he feels less like a celebrity and more like a craftsman of the peloton. At 1.80 m, he was the kind of dependable, durable rider every team needs. I respect athletes who simply outlast everyone, and Chavanel clearly did.

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Name (English)

Sylvain Chavanel

Name (Japanese)

シルヴァン・シャヴァネル

Reading

しるゔぁん・しゃゔぁねる

Born

June 30, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Châtellerault, Vienne, France

Height

181 cm

Occupation

sport cyclist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

• Xhttps://x.com/chava_sylvain
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain%20Chavanel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333329

Tags

• Vienne
• sport cyclist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.