Rollin at the 2011 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Dominique Rollin |
Born | Boucherville, Quebec | 29 October 1982
Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Amateur teams | |
2004 | USSA Pavilly Barentin |
2005 | Equipe du Quebec |
2005 | Gypco Télé-Annonces |
2006 | Vélo-Club de Roubaix Lille Métropole |
Professional teams | |
2001–2002 | Sympatico – Jet Fuel Coffee |
2007 | Kodakgallery.com – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. |
2008 | Toyota–United |
2009–2010 | Cervélo TestTeam |
2011–2013 | FDJ |
2015 | Cofidis |
Major wins | |
Tour of California, 1 Stage Rochester Omnium National Road Race Championships (2006) |
Dominique Rollin (born 29 October 1982) is a Canadian former professional cyclist. [1]
Born in Boucherville, Quebec, Rollin began his professional career in 2001 with the team Sympatico High Speed-Jet Fuel Coffee and again the following year, 2002 with Sympatico Edition Haute Vitese. He then spent three years in France racing as an elite amateur under director-sportif Guy Gallopin for the Roubaix team. After having issues with the way he was treated during Roubaix's transition to a professional team, [2] he returned to North America to ride for the Kodakgallery.com - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. team.
For 2008 Rollin joined the Toyota-United team, with whom he won the Rochester Omnium and the fourth stage of the Tour of California. He won the stage with a nearly seven-hour breakaway in a driving rainstorm, just holding off his fellow breakaway companions after attacking near the finish. [3] Thanks to that performance, he grabbed the lead in the sprints classification and would defend the jersey successfully for the remainder of the race. [4]
In 2009 he got his chance to join a major European professional team in the Swiss-based, Canadian-sponsored Cervélo TestTeam, with his best result of the year coming at the Scheldeprijs semi-classic where he reached the podium with a third place. In October 2010, he signed for two years with the ProTour team FDJ.
Rollin initially retired from racing at the end of 2013 after being unable to secure a contract for the 2014 season. However, in August 2014 Cofidis announced that they had signed Rollin alongside his former FDJ teammates Nacer Bouhanni and Geoffrey Soupe for 2015. [5]
Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
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— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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