Kévin Sireau

Kévin Sireau ( born April 18, 1987 in Châteauroux ) is a French racing cyclist and two-time world champion.

2003 occupied Kévin Sireau a third place finish at the French railway Youth Championships in the sprint, the year after a second place in the same discipline at the Junior. This was followed in the next few years, six more national titles in the sprint, team sprint, the 1000m time trial and in the Keirin. 2005 Sireau was three times vice world champion in short-term disciplines at the UCI Track World Championships in Vienna; five times he also became European champion.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Sireau won ( with Grégory Baugé and Arnaud Tournant ) the silver medal in the team sprint. In the same year he became world champion in Manchester together with these two drivers. This success was repeated ( with Mickaël Bourgain instead of Tournant ) in the following year at the Track World Championships in Pruszków the French team. In the season 2010/2011 he decided the overall standings in the Sprint Track Cycling World Cup in itself. In the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn he became world champion in the team sprint, together with Michaël D' Almeida and Baugé. In January 2012, the International Cycling Union Union announced Cycliste Internationale (UCI ) that Sireau was deprived of his world champion title in the team sprint in 2011, as his team-mate Bauge had repeatedly violated the reporting requirements of the world -Doping Agency WADA.

2012 won Kévin Sireau at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the team sprint together with Grégory Baugé and Michael D' Almeida the silver medal in the team sprint.

When Sprint European Cup 2009 in Moscow Sireau improved the 200 meters world record ( flying) on the Olympic track in 1980 within two days twice, first to 9,650 and then to 9.572 seconds. The UEC - track European Championships 2011 he was European champion in the sprint.

Until the end of 2010 Kévin Sireau went for the track team of Équipe Cofidis.