# Laurent Dufaux

Laurent Dufaux (born 20 May 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) is a former professional road cyclist from 1991 to 2004. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1991. Despite being a climber, he also won the hilly Züri-Metzgete one-day classic in 2000, outsprinting Jan Ullrich and Francesco Casagrande in a flat three-man group sprint finish. Notable results in the Grand Tours include a 4th place overall finish in both the 1996 and 1999 Tour de France and 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, respectively. He also won the 1998 edition of his home region race, the Tour de Romandie, the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Dauphine Libere, and finished in the top 5 of the Tour de Suisse twice.
Following the exclusion of his Festina team from the 1998 Tour de France due to doping, Laurent Dufaux admitted to doping (alongside his teammates) with EPO throughout the 1998 season. Together with Festina teammates Alex Zülle, Armin Meier, Didier Rous, Laurent Brochard, all of whom confessed like Dufaux, he received a seven-month suspension.

## Major results
### 1990

    9th Giro dell'Emilia

### 1991

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Route du Sud
    1st Coppa Placci
    2nd Giro del Lazio
    4th Tour du Nord–Ouest
    5th Overall Tour de Romandie
    7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    7th Trofeo Laigueglia

### 1992

    1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    3rd Tour de Berne
    5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    6th Overall Tour de Romandie
    6th Overall Tour of Galicia
    6th Overall Euskal Bizikleta
    6th Classique des Alpes
    7th GP Ouest–France

### 1993

    1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
       1st Stage 5
    2nd Gran Piemonte
    3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
    5th Classique des Alpes
    7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia

### 1994

    1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
    5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
    5th Leeds International Classic
    7th Classique des Alpes
    9th Overall Tour de l'Oise
       1st Stage 2

### 1995

    1st Overall Route du Sud
    1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 3 & 4a

### 1996

    2nd Overall Vuelta a España
       1st Stage 19
    3rd À travers Lausanne
    4th Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 17
    6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
    7th Trofeo Luis Puig
    8th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

### 1997

    1st Overall À travers Lausanne
       1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 2 (ITT)
    1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    2nd Overall Paris–Nice
    3rd Overall Vuelta a España
    6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
    6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    9th Overall Tour de France

### 1998

    1st Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 3
    1st Overall Midi Libre
       1st Stage 5
    4th Overall À travers Lausanne
    7th Amstel Gold Race
    8th Overall Paris–Nice
    9th La Flèche Wallonne
    10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

### 1999

    1st Polynormande
    2nd À travers Lausanne
    3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    4th Overall Tour de France
    4th Overall Tour de Suisse
    4th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    5th Road race, National Road Championships

### 2000

    1st Züri-Metzgete
    3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
    3rd À travers Lausanne
    3rd Grand Prix Gippingen
    5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    6th Amstel Gold Race
    9th Overall Deutschland Tour

### 2001

    1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino
    3rd À travers Lausanne
    4th Tre Valli Varesine
    6th Road race, National Road Championships
    9th Giro del Lazio

### 2002

    1st Trofeo Melinda
    2nd Giro del Veneto
    3rd Tre Valli Varesine
    4th Overall Tour de Suisse
    4th Overall Giro Riviera Ligure Ponente
    6th Grand Prix Gippingen
    9th Clásica de San Sebastián
    10th Züri-Metzgete
    10th Giro dell'Appennino

### 2003

    2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Stage 3
    5th Classique des Alpes

### 2004

    9th Road race, National Road Championships

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Source:
| Grand Tour | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | 40 | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | DNF | — | 35 | 19 | 4 | 9 | DNF | 4 | DNF | — | DNF | 21 | 67 |
| / Vuelta a España | — | 37 | — | — | 2 | 3 | DNF | DNF | DNF | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |