Thibaut Pinot

Thibaut Pinot

Personal information
Full name Thibaut Pinot
Born (1990-05-29) 29 May 1990
Mélisey, Haute-Saône, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight 63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st)[1]
Team information
Current team FDJ
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber
Professional team(s)
2010– Française des Jeux
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
2 individual stages (2012, 2015)
Young rider classification (2014)

Stage races

Critérium International (2016)
Infobox last updated on
27 March 2016

Thibaut Pinot (born 29 May 1990 in Mélisey, Haute-Saône) is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam FDJ.[2] He is rated as one of the most promising talents in French cycling, and ended as third overall in the 2014 Tour de France, and first in the young rider classification in the race.

Career

FDJ (2012-present)

Pinot wearing the White Jersey at the 2014 Tour de France

Pinot, aged 22 was the youngest rider in the 2012 Tour de France. He took a prestigious victory on the eighth stage from Belfort to Porrentruy, which comprised seven categorized climbs including the Category 1 Col de la Croix, where he passed Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) shortly before the summit. He then negotiated the descent and the flat portion of road before the finish situated 16 km from the climb. He held on to his lead over the chasing group which included some of the Tour's General Classification contenders despite the head wind, being frantically encouraged by his team manager, Marc Madiot. He crossed the line alone with an advantage of 26 seconds over the chasers.[3] Despite being the youngest rider of the Tour,[4] he managed to finish 10th overall in the general classification. At 22 years and 54 days, he became the youngest rider to finish in the top 10 since Raymond Impanis in 1947, who was then 21 years and 8 months old.[5]

Pinot at the 2015 Tour de Suisse

At the 2013 Tour de France, Pinot abandoned the race on stage 16. He rebounded from this disappointment to finish seventh overall in the Vuelta a España. In the 2014 Tour de France, Pinot won the white jersey and the best young rider and finished in third place overall. He and Jean-Christophe Péraud became the first Frenchmen to make the podium of the Tour de France since 1997.

In 2015, Pinot had his first victory of the season at the Tour de Romandie. He won the queen stage of the race with seven seconds of an advantage over his nearest pursuer, Ilnur Zakarin of Team Katusha.[6] He finished fourth in the general classification and was awarded the best Young rider jersey.[7] In June, as he was preparing for the Tour de France, he participated to the Tour de Suisse and won the queen stage, a long and difficult event featuring a mountaintop finish. He won solo at the foot of the Rettenbach glacier.[8] In the Tour de France, Pinot finished 16th in the overall classification, but won Stage 20 at the Alpe d'Huez in solo fashion.[9]


Palmarès

2009
1st Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
1st Stage 3 Tour des Pays de Savoie
1st Tour du Canton de Mareuil Verteillac
1st Grand Prix de la ville de Delle
2010
1st Mountains classification Tour de Romandie
1st Mountains classification Paris–Corrèze
2011
1st Overall Tour d'Alsace
1st Stage 5
1st Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
1st Stage 1
Tour de l'Ain
1st Stages 2 & 4
2nd Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
3rd Tre Valli Varesine
3rd Overall Tour of Turkey
7th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
1st Young rider classification
9th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2012
1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ain
10th Overall Tour de France
1st Stage 8
2013
4th Overall Tour de Suisse
6th Overall Tour de l'Ain
7th Overall Vuelta a España
8th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2014
3rd Overall Tour de France
1st Young rider classification
4th Tour du Doubs
5th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
1st Young rider classification
9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
9th Grand Prix de Wallonie[10]
10th Overall Tour de Romandie
2015
1st Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 20 Tour de France
2nd Overall Critérium International
1st Young rider classification
3rd Giro di Lombardia
4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
4th Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 5
1st Young rider classification
4th Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 5
4th Milano–Torino
6th Grand Prix de Wallonie
6th International Road Cycling Challenge
10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
2016
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Stages 2 (ITT) & 3
1st Points classification
2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 3 (ITT)
2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
4th Overall Volta ao Algarve
4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015
Pink jersey Giro – – – –
Yellow jersey Tour 10 WD 3 16
red jersey Vuelta – 7 WD –

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

Major stage race general classification results timeline

Race 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Paris–Nice — — — — — — —
Tirreno–Adriatico — — 50 — DNF 4 5
Volta a Catalunya 49 — DNF 8 13 — —
Tour of the Basque Country — — DNF 40 9 10 4
Tour de Romandie 30 — 11 12 10 4 2
Critérium du Dauphiné 20 16 — — — — —
Tour de Suisse — — DNF 4 15 4

References

  1. 1 2 "Thibaut Pinot profile".
  2. ↑ "FDJ.fr (FDJ) — FRA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Pinot rides to glory in Porrentruy". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 8 July 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "The oldest starts the attacking; the youngest wins – Bravo Thibaut!". www.letour.fr. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.lefigaro.fr/cyclisme/2012/07/22/02007-20120722ARTSPO00117-vicement-2013.php
  6. ↑ Sadhbh O'Shea (2 May 2015). "Pinot takes victory on Tour de Romandie stage 5". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Sadhbh O'Shea (3 May 2015). "Zakarin wins Tour de Romandie". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  8. ↑ Spencer Powlison (17 June 2015). "Thibaut Pinot climbs to Tour de Suisse stage 5 win, GC lead". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tour de France: Pinot lands huge win for France on l'Alpe d'Huez". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). 25 July 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Grand Prix de Wallonie 2014". cyclingnews.com. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.

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