Fr�d�ric Guesdon is a French former professional road bicycle racer who competed as a professional between 1995 and 2012, most notably for UCI ProTeam FDJ-BigMat, spending 16 years of his career with the team. Guesdon was born in Saint-M�en-le-Grand, Brittany. He turned professional in 1995 with the French Le Groupement team and moved on to the Polti team in 1996, where he scored eleventh place at Paris?Roubaix and third place at the French championship. Guesdon had his breakthrough year in 1997. Having signed with the new Fran�aise des Jeux team, he scored an early victory for the team in the prestigious spring monument Paris?Roubaix. Guesdon also took victories at the Classic Haribo and a stage in the Tour du Limousin. Guesdon had to wait until 2000 for his next major victory, a stage in the Crit�rium du Dauphin� Lib�r�, a feat he repeated in 2002. Despite a complete lack of victories between this win and his next win, over three-and-a-half years later in the 2006 Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Guesdon remained loyal to Fran�aise des Jeux and Fran�aise des Jeux to him. 

October 14th, 1971 in Saint-Méen-le-Grand (Age 53)