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Maxime Méderel

French cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ1913908 ↗
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Maxime Méderel (born 19 September 1980 in Limoges) is a French former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2008 and 2015 for the Crédit Agricole, BigMat–Auber 93, Sojasun and Team Europcar squads. As well as this, he competed for the amateur teams Panorimo 23 La Creuse En Limousin, UC Châteauroux-Fenioux and UV Limousine. He is presently the team manager of the Pôle Espoirs de Guéret.

Méderel joined Team Europcar for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Sojasun – folded at the end of the 2013 season.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maxime Méderel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.