Charly Mottet
Charly Mottet (born 16 December 1962 in Valence, Drôme) is a French former professional cyclist (1983 to 1994). He was one of the best French road cyclists of his era.
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| Full name | Charly Mottet | |||||||||||||
| Nickname | Petit Charly | |||||||||||||
| Born | 16 December 1962 Valence, Drôme, France | |||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
| Rider type | Allround | |||||||||||||
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| 1983-1985 | Renault | |||||||||||||
| 1986-1988 | Systeme U | |||||||||||||
| 1989-1992 | RMO | |||||||||||||
| 1993-1994 | Novemail | |||||||||||||
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His daughter, Eva Mottet, was also a road racing cyclist. She competed as a junior at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships, where she heavily crashed in the women's junior road race. Charly Mottet was an UCI-official at the race. Eva would never fully recover. She died young in April 2020, aged 25.[1][2]
Career
Mottet won a total of 67 races, including the Tour de Romandie in 1990, and rode eight times in the Tour de France. His best results in the Tour de France were 4th-place finishes in 1987 and 1991. He won three stages, one in 1990 (Stage 15 : Millau - Revel) and two in 1991 (Stage 11 : Quimper - Saint-Herblain and Stage 12 : Pau - Jaca). He also finished 2nd in the 1990 Giro d'Italia.
During his professional cycling career, Mottet had a reputation within the peloton as being a totally clean rider who never used performance-enhancing drugs.[3][4] He is former FICP World No. 1 (in May and August 1989).
After retiring from racing, Mottet became involved in race organising, working on the Critérium du Dauphiné (where he was assistant director) for 14 years, before being appointed sports manager of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in 2010. He also served as selector for the French national cycling team at the 1997 and 1998 Road World Championships, and as a technical delegate for the Union Cycliste Internationale at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.[5]
Major results
- 1984
- 1st
Young rider classification Giro d'Italia - 1st
Overall Tour de l'Avenir - 1st Liedekerkse Pijl
- 1985
- 1st Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1st Giro del Piemonte
- 1st Duo Normand (with Thierry Marie)
- 1986
- 1st Stages 9 & 11 Vuelta a España
- 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1st Breuillet
- 1987
- 1st
Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - 1st Six-Days of Grenoble (with Bernard Vallet)
- 1st Overall Tour du Limousin
- 1st Chateauroux - Limoges
- 1st Critérium des As
- 1st GP de Vannes
- 1st Montreuil
- 1st Quilan
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 4th Overall Tour de France
- 1988
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Overall Six-Days of Grenoble (with Roman Hermann)
- 1st Giro del Lazio
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1989
- 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Overall Six Days of Paris (with Etienne De Wilde)
- 1st Boucles de l'Aulne
- 1st Châteaulin
- 1st Giro del Lazio
- 6th Overall Tour de France
- 1990
- 1st Stage 15 Tour de France
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie - 1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 16
- 1991
- 1st Classique des Alpes
- 4th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stages 11 & 12
- 1992
- 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Coppa Bernocchi
- 1993
- 1st Overall Tour du Limousin
- 1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1994
- 1st Overall Route du Sud
References
- Franse ex-wielrenster Eva Mottet, dochter van Charly, op 25-jarige leeftijd overleden, Het Laatste Nieuws
- "Voormalig wielrenster Eva Mottet (25) overleden". Telegraaf. 3 May 2020.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2008-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Greg Lemond on doping practices from 1990 (french)
- Extract from 'Massacre a la Chaine' by Willy Voet Archived May 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- "Our Sports Manager: Charly Mottet". Grands Prix Cyclistes. 19 April 2010. Archived from the original on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
External links
- Charly Mottet at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Charly Mottet