Mathieu Ladagnous

Mathieu Ladagnous

Ladagnous at the 2007 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Mathieu Ladagnous
Born	12 December 1984 Pau, France
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Team information
Current team	FDJ
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Rouleur
Professional team(s)
2006–	Française des Jeux
Infobox last updated on 2 January 2014

Mathieu Ladagnous (born 12 December 1984) is a French road racing cyclist who rides for FDJ.^[1] He also competes as a track cyclist.

Career

Born in Pau, Ladagnous became junior world champion at the madison in Melbourne, Australia in 2002 with his partner Tom Thiblier. In 2003 he won the French national title at the points race for the under-23 level. He also won a bronze medal at the individual sprint (under-23) and a silver medal at the madison with Fabien Patanchon in the elite class. Later that year he and Patanchon became European champions at the under-23 track cycling championships. A year later he won the bronze medal at the scratch in the 2003 under-23 championships. He improved his bronze national individual pursuit manager into a gold, while his points race gold was changed in a silver in 2004. In the elite class he won the madison gold, again alongside Patanchon.

In 2005 he first continued as a track cyclist and added another national under-23 silver to his palmarès at the individual pursuit. A silver medal in the elite class was added at the madison where he teamed up with Patanchon again. At the team pursuit he, Anthony Langella, Fabien Sanchez and Mickaël Mallie won the gold medal and became national elite champions. At the 2005 European championships in Fiorenzuola he won a silver medal at the points race. In 2005 he also made his first road cycling appearance. He immediately won the prologue in the Mainfranken-Tour (under-23) and the overall classification. He decided to focus mainly at the road for the 2006 season, but won another team pursuit gold with Mickael Delage, Jonathan Mouchel. Mikaël Preau and Sylvain Blanquefort. He booked his first road race win in 2006, when he won the fifth stage of the Tour Méditerranéen. Earlier that year he won the fifth stage and the general classification of the Four Days of Dunkirk.

Palmarès

2002

1st Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Junior

2003

National Track Championships

1st Under-23 points race

2nd Madison

3rd Under-23 Individual pursuit

1st Madison, European Track Championships – U23

2004

National Track Championships

1st Madison

1st Under-23 individual pursuit

2nd Points race

3rd Scratch, European Track Championships U23

3rd Scratch, UCI Track World Cup, Sydney

2005

National Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

2nd Madison

2nd Under-23 individual pursuit

2nd UIV Cup, Rotterdam – U23

1st Overall Mainfranken-Tour – U23

1st Prologue

2nd Points race, European Track Championships – U23

9th Mediterranean Games Road Race

2006

1st Stage 5, Tour Méditerranéen

1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships – Elite

2007

1st Stage 5, Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

2009

1st Overall, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo

1st Stage 1

1st, Polynormande

2011

1st Stage 1, Tour de Wallonie

2nd Overall Tour du Limousin

1st Stages 3 & 4

2012

5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan

6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

7th E3 Harelbeke

8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

2013

1st Boucles de l'Aulne

1st Stage 3 Tour du Limousin

5th Tour of Flanders

6th Gent–Wevelgem

6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan

8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

2015

4th Overall Tour du Haut Var^[2]

5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan

2016

2nd Overall La Méditerranéenne

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

References

1. "FDJ.fr (FDJ) — FRA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
2. "Mezgec wins stage 2 of Tour du Haut Var". cyclingnews.com. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.

External links

• Mathieu Ladagnous profile at Cycling Archives