Thomas Allier

Thomas Allier
Personal information
Full name Thomas Allier
Born (1975-03-24) March 24, 1975
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg)
Team information
Current team Free Agent Bicycles
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1993-1997 Sunn/Chipie
1997-1998 Sunn/Nike
Professional team(s)
1998-1999 Sunn/Nike
1999-2001 GT Bicycles/Pansonic Shock Wave
2001-2003 Giant Bicycles
2003-2006 GT Bicycles
2006-Present Free Agent Bicycles
Infobox last updated on
August 30, 2008

Thomas Allier (born March 24, 1975 in Fontenay-aux-Roses,[1][2] Hauts-de-Seine) is a French professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1993-2006. Allier was a member of the French Olympic BMX Team participating in the debut of BMX racing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Allier did not make it past the quarter finals.

Racing career milestones

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Started Racing: September 1989 at 14 years old.

Sanctioning Body: UCI

First race result: Third place.[3]

First win (local):

First sponsor:

First national win:

Turned Professional: 1998

First Professional race result:

First Professional win:

First Junior Pro* win:

First Senior Pro** race result:

First Senior Pro win:

Retired: Active

Height & weight at height of his career (1995–2006): Ht:6'1" Wt:188 lbs (1.85m, 85.5 kg).

*In the NBL it is B"/Superclass/"A" pro (beginning with 2000 season); in the ABA it is "A" pro.
**In the NBL it is "A" pro (Elite men); in the ABA it is "AA" pro.

Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.

Amateur

Professional

Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

Amateur

Association Francaise de Bicrossing (AFdB)

La Fédération Française de Bicrossing (FFB)

Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC)

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

*See note in Professional section.

Professional

Association Francaise de Bicrossing (AFdB)

La Fédération Française de Bicrossing (FFB)

Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC)

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.

International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008 Summer Olympics)
Discipline: Men's BMX
French BMX Teammates: Damien Godet, Anne-Caroline Chausson, Laëtitia Le Corguillé
Location: Laoshan BMX Field Beijing, China
Number of competitors: 32
Positions:
Event Results Wednesday August 20
Men's First Seeding Run‡: 37.176sec.
Men's Second Seeding Run: 36.649sec.
Seconds behind leader: +0.957 (19th place).
Seeding Run leader: Mike Day  United States
Allier advances to Quarterfinals†
Men's Quarter Finals (Overall after three motos of Run 4): 6th place; did not qualify for Semi Final*.
Event Results Thursday August 21
Postponed due to rain.
Event Results Friday August 22
Men's Semi Finals:DNQ
Men's Final (Medal Round): DNQ
Bronze medal winner: Donny Robinson  United States
Silver medal winner: Mike Day  United States
Gold medal winner:** Māris Štrombergs  Latvia

Allier's teammate on the Men's French team Damien Godet, the fourth member of the French team made the Men's Finals but came in last place with a DNF, Did Not Finish. His teammates the women's team Anne-Caroline Chausson and Laëtitia Le Corguillé won the first Gold and Silver medals respectively to be awarded in the Olympic Games for BMX.
Independent Invitationals and Pro Series Championships

Significant injuries

Miscellaneous

BMX magazine covers

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career(s) are listed unless specifically noted.

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

BMX Plus!:

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

Moto Mag:

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official publication of the ABA under three names):

BMX press magazine interviews and articles

Notes

  1. FÊTE DE L’HUMANITÉ July 19, 2005 article in its original French
  2. The rough Google translation of the same FESTIVAL OF HUMANITY article into English
  3. 1 2 Transworld BMX July 2001 Vol.8 Iss.6 No.57 pg.55
  4. http://www.fatbmx.com, October 2001
  5. BMX Plus! January 1999 Vol.22 No.1 pg.11
  6. Moto Mag November/December 2003 Vol.2 No.6 pg.5
  7. Transworld BMX February 2004 Vol.11 Iss.2 No.88 pg.83
  8. bmxtreme.com News article
  9. Snap BMX Magazine February 2000 Vol.7 Iss.2 No.40 pg.30
  10. Transworld BMX November 2001 Vol.8 Iss.11 No.61 pg.38
  11. BMX Plus! May 2006 Vol.29 No.5 pg.24
  12. BMX Plus! July 1996 Vol.19 No.7 pg.10
  13. September 2004 bmxmania article.

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