Franck Bonnamour

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Franck Bonnamour
Oudenaarde - Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften, 11 april 2015 (B177).JPG
Bonnamour in 2015
Personal information
Full nameFranck Bonnamour
Born (1995-06-20) 20 June 1995 (age 30)
Lannion, France
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team
2014–2015BIC 2000
Professional teams
2014 Bretagne–Séché Environnement (stagiaire)
2015 Bretagne–Séché Environnement (stagiaire)
2016–2020 Fortuneo–Vital Concept [1] [2]
2021–2022 B&B Hotels p/b KTM [3] [4]
2023–2024 AG2R Citroën Team [5]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Combativity award (2021)

Franck Bonnamour (born 20 June 1995) is a French former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2016 to 2024. His father, Yves Bonnamour, was also a professional cyclist. He rode and completed his first grand tour in the 2021 Tour de France, in which he placed 22nd overall was given the overall combativity award, despite not having been awarded any individual stage combativity award. [6] [7]

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In March 2024, Bonnamour was dismissed from his Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale team after being provisionally suspended for abnormalities in his Athlete biological passport detected in 2002. [8] In August 2025 the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal issued Bonnamour with a four-year ban backdated to February 2024 for the anti-doping rule violation. [9] Bonnamour had announced his retirement from professional cycling in November 2024 during the investigation. [10]

Major results

2012
2nd Overall Liège–La Gleize
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 1
2013
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships
5th Overall Giro di Basilicata
2014
8th Overall Tour de Bretagne
2015
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
5th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
8th Grand Prix de Wallonie
2017
1st Jersey red.svg Mountains classification, Tour du Haut Var
9th Tour du Finistère
10th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
2018
8th Famenne Ardenne Classic
8th Tour de Vendée
2019
2nd Tour du Doubs
8th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
2020
10th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
2021
2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
2nd Paris–Tours
6th Bretagne Classic
7th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
8th Tour du Jura
9th Paris–Camembert
10th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Overall Tour de France
2022
1st Polynormande
7th Classic Loire Atlantique
2023
6th Grand Prix de Wallonie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 22 65
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. "Arkéa-Samsic". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. "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. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  3. "B&B Hotels p/b KTM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  4. Bonnefoy, François (18 November 2020). "Transfert - Franck Bonnamour signe chez B&B Hotels-Vital Concept" [Transfer - Franck Bonnamour signs with B&B Hotels-Vital Concept]. Cyclism'Actu (in French). Swar Agency. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  5. Barry Ryan (4 January 2023). "Franck Bonnamour signs for AG2R Citroën after B&B Hotels collapse". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  6. Weislo, Laura (17 July 2021). "Bonnamour awarded Tour de France prize for most aggressive rider in 2021 race". CyclingNews. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  7. Cotton, Jim (18 July 2021). "Tour de France combativity prize handed to young sensation Franck Bonnamour". VeloNews. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  8. Becket, Adam (27 March 2024). "French WorldTour pro cyclist dismissed by team for 'anti-doping violation'". Cycling Weekly.
  9. Becket, Adam (22 August 2025). "Former French pro cyclist banned for four years over 'unexplained abnormality' in biological passport". Cycling Weekly.
  10. "French cyclist Bonnamour banned 4 years for suspected blood doping". Associated Press. 21 August 2025.