Laurent Jalabert

Laurent Jalabert

Laurent Jalabert (born 30 November 1968) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as "Jaja" (slang for a glass of wine; when he continued drinking wine as a professional, the nickname stuck because of the similarity to his name), he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the world in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Although he never won the Tour de France, where he suffered altitude sickness, he won the Vuelta a España in 1995; as well as the leader's jersey, he won the sprinter's jersey and climber's jersey in the same race — only the third rider to have done this in a Grand Tour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurent Jalabert has received more than 220,016 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Laurent Jalabert is the 218th most popular cyclist (down from 182nd in 2019), the 4,432nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,797th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Cyclist.