Samuel Dumoulin

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Samuel Dumoulin
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Dumoulin at the 2013 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full nameSamuel Dumoulin
Born (1980-08-20) 20 August 1980 (age 44)
Vénissieux, France
Height1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Team information
Current team B&B Hotels p/b KTM
DisciplineRoad
Role
Rider typePuncheur
Sprinter
Amateur teams
2000Vélo Club de Vaulx-en-Velin
2001Rhône-Alpes
2001 Française des Jeux (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2002–2003 Jean Delatour
2004–2007 AG2R Prévoyance
2008–2012 Cofidis
2013–2019 Ag2r–La Mondiale [1] [2]
Managerial team
2020– B&B Hotels–Vital Concept
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2008)

Samuel Dumoulin (born 20 August 1980) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Jean Delatour, Cofidis and AG2R La Mondiale teams. [1] [2] [3] He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels p/b KTM. [4]

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Career

Dumoulin rode as an amateur for the TCCT [5] (Tonic cyclo club of Ternay). He won the national youth championship in 1996, then the espoir (young professional) Paris–Tours and Paris-Auxerre in 2001.

He dropped out of the 2004 Tour de France when he crashed after hitting a dog. Recovery took him four months and he did not race for the rest of the season. In 2008 he won the third stage after a breakaway of nearly 200 kilometres (120 miles), beating Will Frischkorn and Romain Feillu.

Major results

2001
1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Ain
8th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2002
1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Avenir
2003
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Tro-Bro Léon
2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stages 4 & 10
2004
1st Tro-Bro Léon
2005
1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Stage 2
7th Trophée des Grimpeurs
9th Paris–Camembert
2006
1st Route Adélie
3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
6th Overall Tour Down Under
7th Vattenfall Cyclassics
2007
8th Trophée des Grimpeurs
2008
1st Stage 3 Tour de France
1st Stage 2 Circuit de la Sarthe
Tour du Poitou-Charentes
1st Stages 2 & 5
4th Tour de Vendée
5th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
9th Vattenfall Cyclassics
10th Grand Prix de Fourmies
2009
1st Jersey blue.svg Points classification Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 2 Tour du Limousin
3rd Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
7th GP Ouest–France
2010
1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1st Stage 3
1st Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
4th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
1st Stage 1
8th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 3
2011
1st Overall Paris–Corrèze
1st Stage 1
Volta a Catalunya
1st Stages 5 & 7
1st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges
3rd Hel van het Mergelland
3rd London–Surrey Cycle Classic
7th Overall Tour du Haut Var
1st Stage 1
7th Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
9th Paris–Bourges
2012
1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup
1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
2nd Tour du Finistère
2nd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
2nd Polynormande
4th Tour du Doubs
5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
6th Paris–Bourges
7th Boucles de l'Aulne
7th Tour de Vendée
9th GP Ouest–France
2013
1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup
1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
1st Stage 5 Étoile de Bessèges
2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
2nd Tour de Vendée
3rd GP Ouest–France
3rd Paris–Bourges
6th Overall Tour du Haut Var
6th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
7th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
7th Paris–Camembert
7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
7th Paris–Tours
10th Brussels Cycling Classic
2014
2nd Overall Tour du Haut Var
2nd Paris–Camembert
3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
7th Grand Prix de la Somme
7th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
9th Tour du Doubs
2015
1st La Drôme Classic
3rd Paris–Camembert
5th Grand Prix de Denain
6th La Roue Tourangelle
7th Grand Prix de Fourmies
8th Down Under Classic
8th Route Adélie
9th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
9th Paris–Bourges
10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
2016
1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup
1st La Roue Tourangelle
1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
1st Boucles de l'Aulne
1st Tour du Doubs
2nd Tour du Finistère
2nd Tour de Vendée
3rd Route Adélie
4th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
4th Paris–Camembert
4th Polynormande
8th Paris–Bourges
9th Grand Prix de Fourmies
10th Grand Prix de la Somme
2017
1st Stage 1 Tour du Haut Var
2nd Paris–Camembert
3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
5th Classic Loire-Atlantique
9th La Drôme Classic
10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
2018
2nd La Roue Tourangelle
3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
4th La Drôme Classic
5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
6th Polynormande
7th Route Adélie
9th Classic Loire-Atlantique
2019
8th La Roue Tourangelle
9th Grand Prix de Denain

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia Did not contest during his career
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 141 DNF 114 120 112 139 DNF 162 107 143 90 130
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 124
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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