Please answer the following question: Facts: - manageteam: fdj 2013a - weight: 73 kg lb on - discipline: road - role: rider - height: 1.85 m ftin on - proteam: le groupement team polti fdj 1997 - updated: 1 july 2013 - majorwins: paris -lrb- 2006 -rrb- -- roubaix -lrb- 1997 -rrb- paris -- tours - ridertype: classics specialist - proyears: 1995 1996 1997 -- 2012 - birth date: 14 october 1971 - fullname: frederic guesdon - name: frederic guesdon - currentteam: retired - image: frederic guesdon - tour de suisse 2008.jpg - birth place: saint-meen-le-grand , france - manageyears: 2013 -- Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of frederic guesdon .
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frederic guesdon -lrb- born october 14 , 1971 -rrb- is a french former professional road bicycle racer who competed as a professional between 1995 and 2012 , most notably for uci proteam , spending 16 years of his career with the team .guesdon was born in saint-meen-le-grand , brittany .he turned professional in 1995 with the french le groupement team and moved on to the polti team in 1996 , where he scored eleventh place at paris -- roubaix and third place at the french championship .guesdon had his breakthrough year in 1997 .having signed with the new francaise des jeux team , he scored an early victory for the team in the prestigious spring monument paris -- roubaix .guesdon also took victories at the classic haribo and a stage in the tour du limousin .guesdon had to wait until 2000 for his next major victory , a stage in the criterium du dauphine libere , a feat he repeated in 2002 .despite a complete lack of victories between this win and his next win , over three-and-a-half years later in the 2006 tropicale amissa bongo , guesdon remained loyal to francaise des jeux and francaise des jeux to him .this paid dividends when guesdon won the 2006 uci protour race paris -- tours , his first protour victory and the first overall protour victory both for francaise des jeux and by a french rider since the inception of the competition in 2005 .he retired on 8 april 2012 , after completing paris -- roubaix .