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Laurent Pichon
Laurent Pichon (born 19 July 1986) is a French former racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.[4] In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.[5] He was the winner of the 2017 French Road Cycling Cup.
Pichon in 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Laurent Pichon |
| Born | 19 July 1986 Quimper, France |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncheur |
| Professional teams | |
| 2010–2012 | Bretagne–Schuller |
| 2013–2016 | FDJ |
| 2017–2023 | Fortuneo–Vital Concept[1][2][3] |
Pichon was born in Finistère. Thrice has he placed in the top 10 at the Tro-Bro Léon, each time earning himself a piglet. The piglets, won in 2016, 2017, and 2022; and named Ty Pich, Ty Pich 2, and Pitchounette; were made into sausages and eaten by Pichon.[6]
Major results edit
- 2009
- 10th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 2010
- 1st Scratch race, National Track Championships
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Normandie
- 2nd Route Adélie
- 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 4th Val d'Ille Classic
- 6th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 8th Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 8th Paris–Bourges
- 10th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 2011
- 1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 2nd Overall Circuit des Ardennes
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 4th Tour de Vendée
- 5th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 5th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt
- 8th Flèche d'Emeraude
- 9th Route Adélie
- 10th Paris–Troyes
- 2012
- 1st Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 2nd Route Adélie
- 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 5th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
- 5th Paris–Tours
- 6th Tour de Vendée
- 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2013
- 3rd Classic Loire Atlantique
- 4th Tour de Vendée
- 8th Val d'Ille Classic
- 9th Route Adélie
- 10th Paris–Camembert
- 2014
- 3rd Paris–Camembert
- 5th Tour de Vendée
- 7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 2015
- 3rd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 9th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 2016
- 4th Tro-Bro Léon
- 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- Vuelta a España
- 2017 (3 pro wins)
- 1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup
- 1st Route Adélie
- 1st Classic Loire Atlantique
- 1st Stage 1a Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 3rd Polynormande
- 3rd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 4th Tro-Bro Léon
- 7th Paris–Camembert
- 7th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 9th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2018
- 6th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
- 10th Paris–Camembert
- Combativity award Stage 7 Tour de France
- 2019
- 5th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 2020
- 4th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
- 2021
- 4th Boucles de l'Aulne
- 2022
- 7th Tro-Bro Léon
- 8th Paris–Roubaix
- 2023
- 7th Tro-Bro Léon
- Combativity award Stage 3 Tour de France
Grand Tour general classification results timeline edit
| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia | 163 | 129 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 125 | 98 | — | — | — | — | 124 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 111 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References edit
- ^ "Arkéa-Samsic". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Franck Bonnamour et Romain Le Roux avec Arkéa-Samsic en 2020" [Franck Bonnamour and Romain Le Roux with Arkéa-Samsic in 2020]. Arkéa–Samsic (in French). Pro Cycling Breizh. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Team Arkea - Samsic". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ "2017: 104th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ Davidson, Tom (4 May 2023). "'I've won three pigs… They've been made into sausages' - Tro-Bro Léon and cycling's oddest prize". Cycling Weekly.
External links edit
- Laurent Pichon at UCI
- Laurent Pichon at Cycling Archives
- Laurent Pichon at ProCyclingStats
- Laurent Pichon at Cycling Quotient
- Laurent Pichon at CycleBase