Florent Brard
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Florent Brard (February 7, 1976 at Chambray-les-Tours) is a French road bicycle racer, currently in the Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears team. He is 1.87 m tall and weighs 74 kg.
Brard debuted as a pro in 1999 with Festina cycling team.
In 2001, still with Festina, he became French time trial national champion, also winning a stage and wearing the leader's jersey at the Tour de l'Avenir, winning the final stage of the Etoile de Bessèges, and taking the semiclassics Paris-Bourges and GP-Cholet-Pays de la Loire.
He moved to Crédit Agricole for the 2002 season, but he missed the middle part of it due to a fall which caused him some broken vertebrae.
In 2004, riding with Chocolade Jacques, he won the final stage of the Giro di Lucca and stage 2 of Paris - Corrèze
In 2005, with Agritubel, he won the Paris-Troyes, Trophée Luc Leblanc semiclassic races and a stage at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
In 2006, he moved to his current team, with which he took part in the 2006 Tour de France after becoming French national champion just one week before the start of the Grande Boucle. He was forced to abandon the race after a fall in the penultimate stage.
He is married to Nathalie, with whom he has two daughters.
| Riders on Caisse d'Epargne |
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David Arroyo | Eric Berthou | Florent Brard | Vladimir Efimkin | Imanol Erviti | Marco Fertonani | José Vicente Garcia | Iván Gutiérrez | Joan Horrach | Vladimir Karpets | Pablo Lastras | David Lopez | Alberto Losado | Alexei Markov | Óscar Pereiro | Aitor Pérez | Francisco Perez | Mathieu Perget | Nicolas Portal | Sébastien Portal | Vicente Reynès | Joaquin Rodriguez | Luis León Sánchez | Alejandro Valverde | Constantino Zaballa | Xabier Zandio |
| Manager |
| José Miguel Echavarri |
