Yohann Gène
Gène at the 2010 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Yohann Gène |
| Born | 25 June 1981 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2000–2004 | Vendée U–Pays de la Loire |
| 2003 | Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire) |
| 2004 | Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire) |
| Professional team | |
| 2005–2019 | Bouygues Télécom |
Yohann Gène (born 25 June 1981 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2019, entirely for Bouygues Télécom and its later iterations. He was the first black cyclist, as well as the first cyclist of Afro-Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African descent, to ever compete in the Tour de France.