Frédéric Moncassin

Frédéric Moncassin (born 26 September 1968) is a French former road racing cyclist. He turned professional in 1990 and retired in 1999. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Moncassin was a strong roadman-sprinter known for his tussles with other riders in the last metres of a race. He clashed with Tom Steels and Mario Cipollini among others. He won 30 races and led the Tour de France for a day in 1996. He also came close to winning the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. Procycling said when he retired: "It was the 1998 Tour that, in hindsight, probably spelt the end for Fred. Under intense pressure to come up with a stage win, he struggled through the first week, only to see the race collapse around him as the Festina Scandal took hold. His unfashionable criticism of Richard Virenque - "he's an asshole and you can quote me," he told the French paper 'La Dépêche' at the time - allied to his own poor form, and his increasingly public concern that all cyclists were now tarred with the same brush, left him as a fringe character."

His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found suspicious for EPO when retested in 2004.

Retirement Moncassin was selector for the French national road team from 2004 to 2008, when he was succeeded by Laurent Jalabert.

Major results

1990 1st Stages 2 & 4, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues 1st Grand Prix de Denain 1991 1st Grand Prix de Denain 1st Stage 3 Tour d'Armorique 1992 1st Grand Prix du Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges 1st Stage 5b Tour Méditerranéen 1993 1st Overall Tour de l'Oise 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Points classification 1st Stage 3 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir 1994 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1995 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 1996 1st Stages 1 & 19 Tour de France 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice 1st Stages 1 & 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Stages 1 & 4, Route du Sud 1997 2nd Tour of Flanders 1998 3rd Milan–San Remo 2009 1st Red Bull Road Rage, France