Christophe Agnolutto

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Christophe Agnolutto (born 6 December 1969 in Soisy-Sur-Montmorency) is a professional road bicycle racer from France. He rides for the Agritubel professional cycling team on UCI Europe Tour and UCI ProTour events.

His biggest career accomplishments to date include winning the Stage 7 at the 2000 Tour de France in an early breakaway; he was alone for 80 km of the 127 km stage from Tours to Limoges. In a similar fashion, he was the surprise winner at the 1997 edition of the Tour de Suisse when the race favorites did not chase him down on a Stage 2 breakaway and no one was able to make up the difference in the end.

The five-time Tour de France veteran announced his retirement at the end of the 2006 season.^[1]

[edit] Major achievements

1996 – Petit Casino

First year as a professional

1997 – Casino: Overall and Stage 2 – Tour de Suisse (2.1); A Travers le Morbihan (1.2); 97th overall – Tour de France
1998 – Casino: Stage 6 – Tour de Romandie (2.HC); 31st overall – Tour de France
1999 – Casino: King of the Mountains – Tour de Luxembourg (2.2)
2000 – Ag2r Prévoyance: Stage 7 win and 66th overall – Tour de France (2.HC)
2001 – Ag2r Decathlon: 120th overall – Tour de France
2002 – Ag2r Prévoyance: 144th overall – Tour de France
2003 – Ag2r Prévoyance
2004 – Ag2r Prévoyance: 3rd overall – Tour de Wallonie (2.3)
2005 – Agritubel: Stage 1 – Tour du Poitou Charentes de la Vienne (2.1)
2006 – Agritubel