Christophe Brandt

Christophe Brandt (born 6 May 1977) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2010 for the Saeco–Valli & Valli and Omega Pharma–Lotto teams. He now works as the general manager for UCI ProTeam Wagner Bazin WB,^[3] and as a directeur sportif for its junior team, UCI Continental team Bingoal WB Devo Team.^[4]

Christophe Brandt

Brandt in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Christophe Brandt
Born	(1977-05-06) 6 May 1977 (age 48) Liège, Belgium
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team	Wagner Bazin WB Bingoal WB Devo Team
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif General manager
Professional teams
2000	Saeco–Valli & Valli
2001–2010	Lotto–Adecco
Managerial teams
2012–2013	Idemasport–Biowanze (directeur sportif)
2014–	Wallonie-Bruxelles (general manager)[1]
2019–	Wallonie–Bruxelles Development Team (directeur sportif)[2]

Career

Born in Liège, Brandt started his career with Saeco–Valli & Valli, but after one year he transferred to Lotto–Adecco and stayed there for the rest of his career. In the early 2000s he was a good rider in the Grand Tours, like a 14th place in the 2004 Giro d'Italia and 33rd in the 2002 Tour de France. In 2004, he returned a positive test for methadone. He believed the test was a result of a tainted nutritional supplement that he had taken to cure a liver problem. The chemist who had prepared Brandt's prescription confirmed he had been working with methadone on the same day he had prepared Brandt's prescription. This did not satisfy Brandt's team management, who fired him. However, later in the year the Belgian Cycling Federation exonerated Brandt, and his Lotto–Domo team rehired him. He stayed with them for the remainder of his career before retiring from competition in 2010. After two years with Color Code–Biowanze as a directeur sportif, Brandt joined the Wallonie-Bruxelles team in 2014.

Major results

2002

1st Course du Raisin

2007

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Coppi e Bartali

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling