Alain Meslet

Alain Meslet was a French professional road bicycle racer, born on 8 February 1950 in Averton in the Mayenne department. His sporting career began with the La Hutte-Gitane team, and he went on to ride professionally through the second half of the 1970s and into the early 1980s. His best known results came in 1976, when he won the Grand Prix du Midi Libre overall, and in 1977, when he won the final stage of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées circuit in Paris and finished tenth overall. He started five Tours de France between 1976 and 1981, riding for Gitane-Campagnolo, Fiat-La France, Splendor-Admiral and Boston-Mavic, and he also took stage wins in smaller races such as the Tour Cycliste du Tarn and the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe.