Christophe Riblon

Christophe Riblon

Personal information
Full name Christophe Riblon
Born (1981-01-17) 17 January 1981
Tremblay-en-France, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st)[1]
Team information
Current team AG2R La Mondiale
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Puncheur (road)
Endurance (track)
Professional team(s)
2005– AG2R Prévoyance
Major wins

Tour de France

Combativity award (2013)
2 individual stages (2010, 2013)
Infobox last updated on
1 January 2014

Christophe Riblon (born 17 January 1981 in Tremblay-en-France, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a French professional road and track racing cyclist for UCI World Tour team AG2R La Mondiale. He has won two mountain-top finishes of the Tour de France, including stage 14 of the 2010 Tour de France at the ski resort of Ax-3 Domaines in the Pyrenees, and stage 18 of the 2013 Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez.

During his 2010 victory, he was part of the early breakaway that went free 30 kilometres (19 mi) into the race, and he crested the penultimate climb of the day alone, the Port de Pailheres. He had a two-minute lead at the foot of the last climb, and held on to win solo as the general classification contenders were battling it out behind him.[2]

He won his 2013 stage following a long breakaway, chasing down Tejay van Garderen over the second ascent of Alpe d'Huez and holding on to win by a minute, despite crashing into a ditch on the descent of the Col de Sarenne. In doing so he became the race's first (and only) French winner of a stage that year.

Palmares

2004
 France Amateur Road Race Champion
2005
2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
2006
5th GP Plumelec-Morbihan
7th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
1st Stage 4
2007
1st Overall Tour de la Somme
2nd Duo Normand (with Émilien-Benoît Bergès)
2008
Silver medal UCI Track Championships, Points race
2009
1st Stage 3 Route du Sud
7th Clásica de San Sebastián
2010
1st Stage 14 Tour de France
1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
Silver medal UCI Track Championships, Madison
5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
5th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
2011
8th Overall Tour of Poland
2012
9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
2013
Tour de France
1st Stage 18
Combativity award Stage 18 & Overall
3rd Overall Tour de Pologne
1st Stage 2
2014
4th Overall, Tour de Pologne[3]
2015
7th Overall Tour de Pologne

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Pink jersey Giro 82 - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour - 137 82 28 51 73 37 120 68
red jersey Vuelta - - 46 130 - 162 - -

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

Other major stage races

Race 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Paris–Nice  –  –  – DNF 20 85  –  –  –  –
Tirreno–Adriatico  –  –  –  –  –  – 9  –  – DNF
Volta a Catalunya  –  – 80  –  - 148  –  –  –  –
Tour of the Basque Country  –  –  – DNF  –  – 18 68 113  –
Tour de Romandie  –  –  –  – 32  –  –  –  –  –
Critérium du Dauphiné  –  – 91  – 7 DNF 86  –  – DNF
Tour de Suisse DNF 43  –  –  –  –  – 49 DNF  –

References

  1. 1 2 "Christophe Riblon profile".
  2. ↑ "Riblon conquers climbs to win Stage 14". ESPN.com (ESPN). Associated Press. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Tour of Poland: Rafal Majka secures home victory following final time trial". skysports.com. 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

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