Florian Rousseau

Florian Rousseau is a former French track cyclist, born on 3 February 1974, who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics of 1996 and 2000. He grew up in Patay, began as a soccer player and then switched to cycling, joining the national sports institute INSEP in 1990 and winning the world junior kilometre title in 1992 and the senior title in 1993 and 1994. His win in the kilometre at the 1996 Atlanta Games began a four-year golden period for French track cycling, after which he moved to sprinting, winning the world sprint championship from 1996 to 1998 and the world team sprint title in 1997 and 1998, and he took the national sprint title 17 times. He later coached French sprinters at INSEP and was the first president of the UCI Athletes' Commission.