French – Climber / Puncher
Date and place of birth: March 17th, 1986 in St Hilaire-du-Harcouët (Manche / France)
Height: 1m83 / Weight: 65kg
Turned pro in 2007
In the AG2R CITROËN TEAM since 2011
Q&A
Your motto: “Life is like a bicycle, must move forward if it is not to collapse” (Einstein)
Your favorite race : the Tour de France
Your best memory on bike: being on the podium as winner of the overall best team classification on the Tour de France 2014.
Your worst memory on bike: my crash in May 2017 after a tire peeling off at more than 80 mph.
The club where you started cycling: RO Le Teilleul / Vélo Club St Hilaire
Your hobbies : enjoying time with my family and my two children, listening music, travelling my garden and wine
Music you like: Jazz, Electro, Dire Straits
If you were a movie: Le dîner de cons
If you were a dish : curry chicken
If you were a celebrity: Martin Fourcade
If you had to practise another job, which one? : physiotherapist
Something that is dear to you: my wedding ring
Your qualities: hard-worker and rigorous
Your defaults: anxious
HIGHLIGHTS
2021 (AG2R CITROËN TEAM)
- His season has been hampered by a double fracture of his right clavicle
2020 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 26th overall, Tour de France
2019 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 34th overall, Tour de France
2018 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 15th overall, Tour of Poland
- 20th overall, Tour Down Under
- 20th overall, Paris-Nice
2017 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 6th G.P. La Marseillaise
- He suffered a two pelvic fractures
2016 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 3rd on a stage, Tour du Haut-Var / 6th overall
- 4th overall, La Méditerranéenne / 4th and 6th on stages
2015 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 4th and 8th on stages, Vuelta a España
- 8th on a stage, Tour de France / 18th overall
2014 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 4th on a stage, Tour du Gévaudan
- 6th overall, Tour du Haut-Var / 5th on a stage
- 6th Royal Bernard Drôme Classic
- 8th on a stage, Tour de France
- 10th overall, Tour of Beijing
2013 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 5th la Polynormande
- 6th on a stage, Vuelta a España
- 8th Coppa Sabatini
- 11th overall, Vuelta a Burgos
2012 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 3rd on a stage, Volta a Catalunya
- 8th G.P. d’ouverture La Marseillaise
- His season has been hampered by a pelvis fracture after a crash in the Tour de France
2011 (Française des Jeux)
- 2nd on a stage, Tour de Romandie
- 5th la Polynormande
2010 (Française des Jeux)
- 5th overall, Paris-Corrèze / 6th on a stage
2009 (Française des Jeux)
- 6th on a stage, Vuelta a España / 25th overall
- 10th overall, Tour Down Under
2008 (Française des Jeux)
- 10th overall, Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 10th Paris-Corrèze