David Moncoutié

David Moncoutié is a retired French professional road cyclist who spent his entire career with the team Cofidis, joining in 1997 after team manager Cyrille Guimard saw him at the Blagnac club near Toulouse. He came from a football-loving family with no cycling background, played football until sixteen and was introduced to cycling by a friend. A climber known for a humble, almost recreational attitude to racing, he won a stage of the 2004 Tour de France to Figeac and the Briançon to Digne-les-Bains stage on Bastille Day the following year. He won the mountains classification of the Vuelta a España four times, one short of the record of five held by José Luis Laguía.