Alexis Vuillermoz

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Alexis Vuillermoz
Le cycliste Alexis Vuillermoz au matin de la 2e etape du Tour de l'Ain 2023.jpg
Vuillermoz at the 2023 Tour de l'Ain
Personal information
Full nameAlexis Vuillermoz
NicknamePikachu
Born (1988-06-01) 1 June 1988 (age 35)
Saint-Claude, Jura, France
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) [1]
Weight60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb) [1]
Team information
Current team Team TotalEnergies
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Mountain biking
RoleRider
Rider type Puncheur [2]
Amateur teams
2006–2008Scott–Les 2 Alpes
2009–2012Lapierre International
2012 Saur–Sojasun (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2013 Sojasun
2014–2020 Ag2r–La Mondiale [3] [4]
2021– Total Direct Énergie
Major wins
Grand Tour
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2015)

Alexis Vuillermoz (born 1 June 1988) is a French road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Team TotalEnergies. [5]

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Career

Mountain biking (2006–2012)

He was originally a mountain bike racer before switching to road cycling, winning the French national under-23 mountain bike title twice and riding as part of the French national team that took the team relay title at the 2008 Mountain Bike World Championships. [2]

Sojasun (2013)

He was a member of the Sojasun team that competed at the 2013 Tour de France, [6] finishing the race 46th overall.

Ag2r–La Mondiale (2014–2020)

Vuillermoz joined Ag2r–La Mondiale for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Sojasun – folded at the end of the 2013 season. [3] In the eighth stage of the 2015 Tour de France, Vuillermoz attacked the leading group on the Mûr-de-Bretagne to cross the line solo atop the hill. [7] "After winning I thought about my dad who died three years ago. He was the one who got me interested in the Tour de France, he used to take my cousins and I to the side of the road to watch the Tour go past," said Vuillermoz. "I hope today he's proud of me." [7]

In 2016, Vuillermoz finished in 23rd position in the Olympics men's road race and in 29th position in the Olympic men's road time trial.

He started the 2018 Tour de France, but was forced to abandon with a scapular fracture sustained after colliding with a roadside spectator trying to take a photo in one of the cobbled sectors on stage 9 to Roubaix. [8]

Total Direct Énergie (2021–present)

In October 2020, Vuillermoz signed an initial two-year contract with the Total Direct Énergie team, from the 2021 season. [9] In his first season with the team, he finished fourth at the Tour du Finistère, [10] and seventh overall at the Tour du Rwanda. [11] During the Tour de Suisse, Vuillermoz crashed during the seventh stage individual time trial, fracturing his pelvis and doctors advised him not to race again. [12] [13]

At the start of the 2022 season, Vuillermoz recorded top-ten finishes in four of his first five race starts, with a best finish of fourth place at the GP Miguel Induráin. Later in the month, he finished third at the Classic Grand Besançon Doubs, and recorded a tenth-place finish in La Flèche Wallonne. That June, Vuillermoz won a stage from the breakaway at the Critérium du Dauphiné, [13] winning a sprint finish of five riders in Brives-Charensac that managed to fend off the peloton by five seconds and assumed the race lead following the stage. [14] Having extended his contract by a further two years in August, [15] Vuillermoz did not return to the podium until October's Gran Piemonte, where he finished in third place. [16]

Major results

Mountain biking

2005
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team relay, UCI World Championships
3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
2006
1st MaillotFra.PNG Cross-country, National Junior Championships
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
2008
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay, UCI World Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team relay, UEC European Championships
2009
1st MaillotFra.PNG Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Cross-country, UCI Under-23 World Championships
2010
1st MaillotFra.PNG Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships

Road

Source: [17]

2012
5th Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie
2013
5th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
2014
1st Jersey pink.svg Mountains classification, Route du Sud
3rd Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
1st Stage 2
5th Tour du Doubs
8th Overall Critérium International
2015
1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
1st International Road Cycling Challenge
1st Stage 8 Tour de France
6th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
1st Stage 2
6th La Flèche Wallonne
9th Overall Tour du Haut Var
9th Overall Critérium International
2016
2nd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
5th Overall Critérium International
2017
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Stage 2
1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
4th Giro di Lombardia
4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
6th Giro dell'Emilia
2018
2nd Overall Tour du Haut Var
4th Classic de l'Ardèche
5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
5th Coppa Sabatini
8th Overall Paris–Nice
2019
1st La Drôme Classic
4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
7th Classic de l'Ardèche
2021
4th Tour du Finistère
7th Overall Tour du Rwanda
2022
1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné
3rd Gran Piemonte
3rd Classic Grand Besançon Doubs
4th GP Miguel Induráin
6th La Drôme Classic
7th Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
10th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
10th La Flèche Wallonne
10th Ardèche Classic

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia — 11 ———— 29 ———
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 46 — 26 20 13 DNF 41 35 — DNF
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España Has not contested during his career
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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