Grégory Baugé

Grégory Baugé ( born January 31, 1985 in Maisons- Lafitte in Paris ) is a French racing driver who drives race on the track mainly.

Career

Grégrory Baugé, whose family is originally from Guadeloupe, began with eight years to play football. After a short time, however, he decided against football, because he froze it. Then his father reported to him in a cycling school, and Grégory enthusiastic about this sport and then drove well, despite the cold, races down the road.

However, Baugé soon focused on track racing and has been very successful for several years. He became Junior World Sprint Champion 2002. In 2006 he became world champion in the team sprint at the Track World Championships for the first time. He repeated three times in the following years, and crown in 2009 with a single victory in the sprint this success. He was the second colored sprint world champion 100 years after the World Cup victory by Major Taylor in 1899. In addition, Baugé won at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the silver medal in the team sprint. 2010 Baugé won again the championship title in the sprint. In the Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn he could repeat this success and also win the gold medal in the team sprint. He was initially the most successful male athlete in the world championships until the medals him were withdrawn.

In the UCI Track World Championships 2012 in Melbourne was Baugé World Sprint Champion and Vice World Champion in the team sprint with Kévin Sireau and Michaël D' Almeida. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, he won the silver medal each in the team sprint, together with Kévin Sireau and Michael D' Almeida, and in the sprint.

Withdrawing the world title

In January 2012, the International Cycling Union Union announced Cycliste Internationale (UCI ) that were Baugé stripped of his two world titles in 2011, because he had repeatedly violated the reporting requirements of the world -Doping Agency WADA. This is seen as a doping offense. His lawyer stated that Baugé had been ill for one of the appointments and have therefore stayed at a place other than specified. The French Cycling Federation FFC had the violations of Baugé appears already in December 2010 and criticized the International Cycling Union Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI ) for the delay in its decision as " frivolous ".

Since Baugé was subsequently officially closed from December 2010 to December 2011 by the UCI, his place in the Olympic Games in London is not compromised.

Achievements

Olympic Medals

• Olympic Games 2012 Team Sprint; sprint
• Olympic Games 2008 Team Sprint

World Championship medals

• Gold Sprint: 2009, 2010, 2012
• Team sprint: 2006 ( with Mickaël Bourgain, Arnaud Tournant ), 2007 ( as in 2006 ), 2008 ( with Kévin Sireau, Arnaud Tournant ), 2009 ( with Mickaël Bourgain, Kévin Sireau )

• Sprint: 2007