Christophe Mengin

Christophe Mengin is a retired French racing cyclist and a former cyclo-cross racer, born on 3 September 1968 in Cornimont in the Vosges. He took the French amateur cyclo-cross title as an under-23 rider in 1988 and won a bronze medal in the amateur road race at the 1994 world championships in Agrigento. He turned professional in 1995, signing with the Chazal team, joined Française des Jeux in 1997, and retired after the 2008 season. He rode eleven Tours de France between 1995 and 2006 and won stage 16 of the 1997 Tour, from Morzine to Fribourg, finishing 48th overall that year. His other wins include the French cyclo-cross championships of 1997 and 1998, the GP Ouest-France Plouay in 1999 and Cholet-Pays de Loire in 2003. He is listed at 1.73 m and 68 kg.