Yohann Gène

Yohann Gène
Gène at the 2010 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full nameYohann Gène
Born (1981-06-25) 25 June 1981
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
2000–2004Vendée U–Pays de la Loire
2003Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire)
2004Brioches La Boulangère (stagiaire)
Professional team
2005–2019Bouygues 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.