Laurent Jalabert

Laurent Jalabert

Jalabert at the 1993 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Laurent Jalabert
Nickname	Jaja Le panda
Born	(1968-11-30) 30 November 1968 (age 55) Mazamet, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur teams
1987	US Montauban
1988	GSC Blagnac
Professional teams
1989–1991	Toshiba
1992–2000	ONCE
2001–2002	CSC–Tiscali
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Points classification (1992, 1995) Mountains classification (2001, 2002) Combativity award (2001, 2002) 4 individual stages Giro d'Italia Points classification (1999) 3 individual stages Vuelta a España General classification (1995) Points classification (1994–1997) Mountains classification (1995) 18 individual stages Stage races Paris–Nice (1995, 1996, 1997) Volta a Catalunya (1995) Critérium International (1995) Vuelta a Burgos (1997) Tour de Romandie (1999) Tour of the Basque Country (1999) One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships (1997) National Road Race Championships (1998) Milan–San Remo (1995) La Flèche Wallonne (1995, 1997) Giro di Lombardia (1997) Milano–Torino (1997) Clásica de San Sebastián (2001, 2002) Other UCI Road World Rankings (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999) Vélo d'Or (1995)
Medal record Representing  France Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 1997 San Sebastián Elite Men's Time Trial 1992 Benidorm Elite Men's Road Race

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. With Alessandro Petacchi, Eddy Merckx, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov and Mark Cavendish, he is one of only five riders to win the points classification in all three grand tours.