Laurent Dufaux

Laurent Dufaux (born 20 May 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) is a former professional road cyclist from 1991 to 2004. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1991. Despite being a climber, he also won the hilly Züri-Metzgete one-day classic in 2000, outsprinting Jan Ullrich and Francesco Casagrande in a flat three-man group sprint finish. Notable results in the Grand Tours include a 4th place overall finish in both the 1996 and 1999 Tour de France and 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, respectively. He also won the 1998 edition of his home region race, the Tour de Romandie, the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Dauphine Libere, and finished in the top 5 of the Tour de Suisse twice.

Following the exclusion of his Festina team from the 1998 Tour de France due to doping, Laurent Dufaux admitted to doping (alongside his teammates) with EPO throughout the 1998 season. Together with Festina teammates Alex Zülle, Armin Meier, Didier Rous, Laurent Brochard, all of whom confessed like Dufaux, he received a seven-month suspension.

Major results

1990 9th Giro dell'Emilia 1991 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Overall Route du Sud 1st Coppa Placci 2nd Giro del Lazio 4th Tour du Nord–Ouest 5th Overall Tour de Romandie 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 7th Trofeo Laigueglia 1992 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami 3rd Tour de Berne 5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 6th Overall Tour de Romandie 6th Overall Tour of Galicia 6th Overall Euskal Bizikleta 6th Classique des Alpes 7th GP Ouest–France 1993 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Stage 5 2nd Gran Piemonte 3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos 3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 5th Classique des Alpes 7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia 1994 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 5th Leeds International Classic 7th Classique des Alpes 9th Overall Tour de l'Oise 1st Stage 2 1995 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos 1st Points classification 1st Stages 3 & 4a 1st Overall Route du Sud 1996 2nd Overall Vuelta a España 1st Stage 19 3rd À travers Lausanne 4th Overall Tour de France 1st Stage 17 6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 7th Trofeo Luis Puig 8th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1997 1st Overall À travers Lausanne 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 2 (ITT) 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre 2nd Overall Paris–Nice 3rd Overall Vuelta a España 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos 9th Overall Tour de France 1998 1st Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 3 1st Overall Midi Libre 1st Stage 5 4th Overall À travers Lausanne 7th Amstel Gold Race 8th Overall Paris–Nice 9th La Flèche Wallonne 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1999 1st Polynormande 2nd À travers Lausanne 3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos 4th Overall Tour de France 4th Overall Tour de Suisse 4th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2000 1st Züri-Metzgete 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie 3rd À travers Lausanne 3rd Grand Prix Gippingen 5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni 6th Amstel Gold Race 9th Overall Deutschland Tour 2001 1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino 3rd À travers Lausanne 4th Tre Valli Varesine 9th Giro del Lazio 2002 1st Trofeo Melinda 2nd Giro del Veneto 3rd Tre Valli Varesine 4th Overall Tour de Suisse 4th Overall Giro Riviera Ligure Ponente 6th Grand Prix Gippingen 9th Clásica de San Sebastián 10th Züri-Metzgete 10th Giro dell'Appennino 2003 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 3 5th Classique des Alpes

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+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish