Cédric Michaud is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 marathon speed skater

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

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He was the first non Dutchman

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 after Oleg Bozhev

Oleg Bozhev

Oleg Felevich Bozhev is a former speed skater. He trained at VSS Trud.-Short biography:Competing for the Soviet Union, Oleg Bozhev had his best year in 1984 when he won a bronze medal on the 1,500 m at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, became World Allround Champion ten days later, became...

 to win the Essent Cup in 2002-03, while he won the cup another time in 2005-06. In that year he also won the Dick van Gangelen Trophy and the Six Days of the Greenery

Six Days of the Greenery

The Six Days of the Greenery is a marathon speed skating event that that is held on a yearly basis in the Netherlands. The event consists of six races in a six day time span. The distance covered in every race is 100 laps on a 400m track...

. He also won the latter in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

As of today Michaud has won 35 marathons on artificial speed skating tracks, including two during the 2006 Six Days of the Greenery

2006 Six Days of the Greenery

The 2006 Six Days of the Greenery of marathon speed skating was held in the Netherlands, between December 11 and December 16, 2006. The tournament hosted six races of 100 laps in six days in the chase for the brussels sprout suit....

. Between 2002 and 2006 he rode 26 races in the orange suit as the leader of the Essent Cup. While between 2000 and 2006 he was wearing the brussels sprout

Brussels sprout

The Brussels sprout is a cultivar of wild cabbage grown for its edible buds. The leafy green vegetables are typically 2.5–4 cm in diameter and look like miniature cabbages. The sprout is Brassica oleracea, in the "gemmifera" group of the family Brassicaceae...

 suit for being the leader in the Six Days of the Greenery 25 days, which is the current record, with KC Boutiette

KC Boutiette

KC Boutiette is an American speed skater from Tacoma, Washington and four-time Olympian.He was first of the wave of inline speed skaters who made the transition from inline to ice in order to have a shot at going to the Olympics.Among American speed skaters, Boutiette's story is half legendary...

following at 10 days.