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Laurent Jalabert (born November 30, 1968) was one of the dominant riders of the second half of the 1990s, being the UCI number one ranked road rider in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999.
Jalabert won several classics, including Milano-San Remo (1995), Giro di Lombardia (1997) as well as several important stage races, the Vuelta a España, Paris-Nice and the Tour of Romandie.
He was a speedy finisher and early in his career he successfully mixed it up in the elbow-bashing sprint finishers. But a horrible crash in the 1994 Tour de France caused him to change his racing style and he became less of a pure sprinter and more of an all-round road racer.
Still, he continued to use his remarkable turn of speed to good effect. He won the points classifications of the Tour de France twice (1992, 1995), the Vuelta four times (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997) and the Giro d'Italia (1999).
Late in his career he sought the mountains classification in the Tour de France and won it twice (2001, 2002).
But, Jalabert was a racer of the 1990s and like nearly every other successful racer of his era, he used EPO. In 2013 the French senate released the names of riders shown by retrospective testing to have used the performance enhancing drug in the 1998 Tour de France, and Jalabert was among them. He refused to acknowledge that he knowingly took the drug, blaming his team doctors for the positive. Also, Jalabert was instrumental in having the Spanish teams pull out of the 1998 Tour as the doping crises deepened.
Major victories and high placings:
UCI #1 rider 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999
1989:
- Tour d'Amorique
- 3rd place Trofeo Lois Puig
1990:
- Paris-Bourges
- 2nd place points classification Vuelta a España
- 2nd place Philadelphia Grand Prix
- 2nd place Clasica San Sebastian
1991:
- 2nd place Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2nd place Paris-Nice
- 2nd place points classification Tour de France
- 2nd place Championship of Zurich
1992:
- Points classification Tour de France
- 2nd place Wincanton CLassic
- 2nd place World Road Championships
- 3rd place Trofeo Luis Puig
1993:
- Mallorca Challenge
- Trofeo Luis Puig
- Clasica Alcobendas
- Vuelta Rioja
- 2nd place points classification Vuelta a España
1994:
- Points classification Vuelta a España, winning 8 stages
- 2nd place Trofeo Luis Puig
1995:
- Paris-Nice
- Milano-San Remo
- Critérium International, winning 2 stages
- GP Primavera
- Flèche Wallone
- Vuelta a Catalonia
- Points classification, 4th place general classification Tour de France, winning 2 stages
- Vuelta a España, general and mountains and points classifications, winning 5 stages
- 2nd place Tour of the Basque Country
1996:
- Classic Haribo
- Tour de Valence
- Paris-Nice, winning 2 stages
- GP du Midi-Libre
- Classique des Alpes
- Route du Sud
- Points classification Vuelta a España, winning 2 stages
- 2nd place Mallorca Challenge
- 3rd place Milano-Torino
1997:
- Individual Time Trial World Championships
- Mallorca Challenge
- Paris-Nice, winning prologue and 1 stage
- Flèche Wallone
- Vuelta a Burgos
- Points classification Vuelta a España, winning 2 stages
- Milano-Torino
- Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd place Tour of the Basque Country
- 2nd place Liège-Bastogne-Liège
1998:
- Tour du Haut-Var
- Vuelta a Asturia
- Classique des Alpes
- French Road Championships
- 3 stages Tour of Switzerland
- 2nd place Tour of Andalucia
- 2nd place Catalonian Week
- 2nd place Liège-Bastogne-Liège
1999:
- Catalonian Week general and points classifications
- Tour of the Basque Country
- Tour de Romandie general and points classifications, winning 2 stages
- Giro d'Italia points classification, 4th place general classification, winning 3 stages
- 2nd place Tour of Switzerland
2000:
- Tour Méditerranéen
- Catalonian Week
- 2nd place GP Miguel Indurain
- 3rd place Tour of the Basque Country
- 3rd place Flèche Wallonne
2001:
- Mountains classification Tour de France
- 2nd place Four Days of Dunkirk
2002:
- Tour du Haut-Var
- Clasica San Sebastian
- Coppa Agostoni
- Mountains classification Tour de France
- 3rd place Paris-Nice
1989: Toshiba
1990: Toshiba-look
1991: Toshiba
1992-1998: ONCE
1999-2000: ONCE-Deutsche Bank
2001-2002: CSC-Tiscali
Laurent Jalabert in 1991 at the Giro del Piemonte.
1992: Jalabert (in yellow) on the Kruisberg in the Tour of Flanders.
Jalabert time trials to Sansepulcro in stage 4 of the 1992 Giro d'Italia.
1992 Tour de France, stage 12: Jalabert crosses the line 11th, but is relegated to twelfth after protest.
Gianni Bugno beats Jalabert in the 1992 Word Championships.
1992 World's podium at Benidorm Spain, from the ledt: Jalabert, Gianni Bugno and Dimitri Konyshev.
1995 Milano-San Remo: Maurizio Fondriest leads Jalabert.
1995 Milano-San Remo: Fondriest and Jalabert rip down the Poggio.
Jalabert wins 1995 Milano-San Remo in front of Fondriest.
Jalabert climbs in the 1995 Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Jalabert rounds a corner in the rain during the 1995 Tour de France prologue.
Jalabert (in yellow) and his ONCE squad ride the team time trial in stage 3 of the 1995 Tour de France.
Jalabert (no longer in yellow) and Bjarne Riis at stage 7 of the 1995 Tour de France.
1995 Tour de France, stage 8: Jalabert, in the green points leader's jersey, time trial to Seraing.
Jalabert wins the 1995 Tour's 12th stage in Mende by a half minute.
Stage 15 of the 1995 Tour: Jalabert climbs to Cauterets.
1996 Tour de France: Alex Zulle (in yellow) and Jalabert at the start of stage two.
A hot day in the mountains as Jalabert climbs at Les Arcs in stage 7 of the 1996 Tour de France.
1996 Tour de France, stage 8: Laurent Jalabert time trials to Val d'Isere.
Jalabert leads in the 1996 Giro di Lombardia.
Jalabert rides the 1997 Tour de France prologue.
Laurent Jalabert climbs to Loudenvielle in stage 9 of the 1997 Tour de France.
Looks like Jalabert has passed a rider in the St. Etienne stage 12 time trial in the 1997 Tour.
Climbing to l'Alpe d'Huez in the 1997 Tour de France.
Stage 15 of the 1997 Tour de France: Laurent Jalabert rides to Morzine. Marco Pantani won the stage.
Jalabert wins the 1997 Giro di Lombardia.
1998 Liège-Bastogne-Liège podium, from left: 2nd place Laurent Jalabert, winner Michele Bartolo and 3rd place Rodolfo Massi.
Jalabert climbs to Plateau de Beille in stage 11 of the 1998 Tour de France.
A miserable day in the saddle. Jalabert climbs to Les Deux Alpes in the 1998 Tour de France.
Jalabert in stage 16 to Albertville in the 1998 Tour de France.
Jalabert talks to his director in stage one of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
Jalabert wins stage 4 of the 1999 Giro d'Italia in Terme Luigiane.
Jalabert climbs in stage 5 of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
1999 Giro d'Italia, stage 8: Marco Pantani leads pink-clad Jalabert.
Laurent Jalabert time trials in stage 9 of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
In the leader's pink jersey Jalabert rides stage 10 of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
Still in pink, Jalabert rides to Sassuolo in stage 12 of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
Laurent Jalabert mixes it up in the sprint of stage 13. He's to the right, wearing a cap and the pink jersey.
Jalabert descends a narrow alpine road on the way to Borgo San Dalmozzo in stage 14 of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
Castarophe hasn't stuck Marco Pantani yet in the 1999 Giro. Here Pantani, now the maglia rosa, leads Jalabert in stage 15 on the road to Oropa.
Laurent Jalabert just beats Marco Pantani (and Gilberto Simoni who isn't in the photo) in Lumezzane at the end of stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia.
Jalabert races through Treviso in the stage 18 time trial of the 1999 Giro d'Italia.
Marco Pantani explains things to Jalabert (now in the points leader's jersey) in stage 19 of the 1999 Giro.
Jalabert races to Madonna di Campiglio in stage 20 of the 1999 Giro.
Still the 20th stage of the 1999 Giro. Pantani is in his last day in pink as Jalabert (in purple) follows Roberto Heras and Pantani.
Jalabert grabs a jacket before a cold descent in stage 21 of the 1991 Giro. Pantani has been stripped of his pink jersey and gone home after he had a positive for a too-high hematocrit that morning.
The jersey winners promenade to Milano in the final stage of the 1999 Giro d'Italia. From left: Blue Intergiro Fabrizio Guidi, Pink GC Ivan Gotti, Purple Points Laurent Jalabert and Green Climber's José Jaime Gonzalez.
Laurent Jalabert rolls off in Futuroscope in stage 1 of the 2000 Tour de France.
Jalabert in yellow after stage 4 of the 2000 Tour de France.
Stage 6 of the 2000 Tour de France begins in Vitre. Jalabert is in yellow.
2000 Tour de France, stage 10: Jalabert looks to be having no fun riding to Hautacam.
Laurent Jalabert climbs Mt Ventoux in stage 12 of the 2000 Tour de France.
Riding to Courchevel in the 2000 Tour de France
Jalabert time trials to Mulhouse in stage 19 of the 2000 Tour de France.
Jalabert wins the 2001 Tour's fourth stage in Verdun.
He does it again! This time stage seven ending in Colmar.
Laurent Jalabert climbs to l'Alpe d'Huez in stage 10 of the 2001 Tour de France.
Laurent Jalabert has gained the polka-dot climber's jersey. Here he time trials to St. Amand Montrond in stage 18 of the 2001 Tour de France.
Jalabert wins the 2001 Clasica San Sebastian. Francesco Casagrande on the right came in second and David Rebellin on the left, was third.
Laurent Jalabert climbs with yellow jersey'd teammate Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano to La Mongie in stage 11 of the 2002 Tour de France. At the end of the stage Lance Armstrong would be in yellow.
Jalabert leads Carlos Sastre to La Plagne in stage 16 of the 2002 Tour de France.
Jalabert and Armstrong with family during the final awards of the 2002 Tour de France.
In 2002 Jalabert wins his second consecutive San Sebastian Classic.