Bryan Coquard
Coquard at the 2015 Tour de France | |
Personal information | |
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Born |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 25 April 1992
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Vital Concept |
Discipline | Road and track |
Role | Rider |
Rider type |
Sprinter (road) Endurance (track) |
Amateur team(s) | |
2008–2010 | US Pontchâtelaine |
2011–2012 | Vendée U |
Professional team(s) | |
2013–2017 | Team Europcar |
2018– | Vital Concept |
Major wins | |
Bryan Coquard (born 25 April 1992) is a French cyclist, currently riding for UCI Professional Continental team Vital Concept.[1] He was a silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Omnium.[2]
Career
Youth and amateur
Coquard began cycling in 1999 at the age of seven, at the US Pontchâteau club. In September 2008, aged sixteen, he joined CREPS Bordeaux, where he was coached by Eric Vermeulen.
In 2009, Coquard became World Junior Omnium Champion, as well as winning the Scratch Race at the European championships. He retained his Junior Omnium crown in 2010, winning four of the six events, he also finished second in the Scratch Race. Due to his track success, in June 2011 Coquard signed a contract with Team Europcar for the start of the 2013 professional road season. Later that month, he became the omnium champion of France, winning 5 of the 6 races. Following this, he was selected to represent France in the omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal finishing behind Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark.
Professional
Coquard signed a contract for a professional career on the roads from the 2013 season onwards, signing with Team Europcar.[3] His 2013 campaign began well, as he took two stages in the Étoile de Bessèges in January and February.[4] In 2015, Coquard won the first stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk. The stage featured cobbled sectors, fracturing the peloton to bits, and Coquard won the sprint of a small group of three.[5]
Bryan Coquard began the 2016 season with two victories in the first and second stages of the Etoile de Bessèges. However, on the 16th February, in preparation for the Tour of Andalusia, he fractured his right shoulder blade. He returned a month later in time for the classics season, having missed his first objective of the year Paris-Nice. He started off well finishing 2nd behind Jens Debusschere in a small bunch sprint at Dwars door Vlaanderen. After a stage win the Circuit de la Sarthe, his form continued into the hilly classics of Brabantse Pijl and the Amstel Gold Race finishing fourth in both. In May, he won his first professional stage race at the Four Days of Dunkirk while also winning three stages in the process. The following month, he won his first race against the clock during the prologue of the Boucles de la Mayenne, as well as winning the next stage. In his build up to the Tour de France, he beat Arnaud Démare in the first two stages of the Route du Sud.
Vital Concept
In August 2017 it was confirmed that Coquard had signed for the newly formed Vital Concept Cycling Team, as team leader for 2018[6], shortly after Coquard was excluded from the Direct Énergie Tour de France team. [7] Coquard was also offered a place on the Quick-Step Floors team, but turned it down as he felt he would be put as 2nd sprinter behind Fernando Gaviria[8]
Coquard made his debut for Vital Concept in January 2018 at the Sharjah Tour. He took his first victory in February at stage 1 of the Tour of Oman where he won a sprint finish ahead of Mark Cavendish.[9] Earlier in the month Coquard narrowly missed out on victory at the Etoile de Bessèges, when Christophe Laporte passed him out at the finish line while Coquard was celebrating the victory he had thought he had won.[10]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2009
- 1st
Omnium, UCI Junior Track World Championships - 2010
- 1st
Omnium, UCI Junior Track World Championships - 2011
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st
Scratch race - 2nd
Madison (with Morgan Lamoisson)
- 1st
- 2nd
Omnium, UEC European Track Championships - 2012
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 1st
Madison (with Morgan Lamoisson) - 3rd
Scratch race
- 1st
- 1st Grand Prix Cristal Energie
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Berlin
- 2nd
Omnium, Olympic Games - 2nd
Road race, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships - 2nd Six Days of Grenoble (with Morgan Kneisky)
- 2013
- Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 1st
- Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stages 8 & 9
- 1st Châteauroux Classic
- 2nd
Madison (with Thomas Boudat), UEC European Track Championships - 2nd Overall French Road Cycling Cup
- 1st Young rider classification
- 2nd Overall Tour de Picardie
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Grand Prix de Denain
- 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 5th Paris–Camembert
- 5th Boucles de l'Aulne
- 6th Tour de Vendée
- 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 2014
- Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 1st Route Adélie de Vitré
- 1st Paris–Camembert
- 3rd Overall Tour de Picardie
- 1st Stage 1
- 2015
- 1st
Madison (with Morgan Kneisky), UCI Track World Championships - 1st
Elimination race, UEC European Track Championships - Route du Sud
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges
- 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 4th Overall Tour de Picardie
- 4th Brussels Cycling Classic
- 5th Trofeo Playa de Palma
- 9th Trofeo Santanyi-SesSalines-Campos
- 10th Grand Prix de Denain
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Four Days of Dunkirk - 1st
Points classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Boucles de la Mayenne - 1st
Points classification - 1st Prologue
- 1st
- Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st
- Route du Sud
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Stage 2a Circuit de la Sarthe
- 1st Route Adélie de Vitré
- 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 3rd Tour de Vendée
- 4th Brabantse Pijl
- 4th Clásica de Almería
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 5th Paris–Tours
- 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 2017
- Circuit de la Sarthe
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 2a & 4
- 1st
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 5 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
- 2018
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Oman
- 1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2nd Paris–Bourges
- 7th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 5
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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— | — | — | — | — | |
104 | 110 | 113 | — | — | |
— | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ↑ "Vital Concept Club unveil 2018 team kit". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ↑ "Gold success for Hansen". London 2012. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ↑ Weislo, Laura (6 August 2012). "Omnium silver medallist Coquard to Europcar". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ↑ "Bryan Coquard takes stage 2 at 2013 Etoile de Besseges; Michael Van Staeyen holds lead". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Emil Axelgaard (6 May 2015). "In-form Coquard conquers the cobbles in Dunkerque opener". Cycling Quotes. CyclingQuotes.com 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
- ↑ "New Vital Concept team confirms Coquard as leader". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ↑ Fletcher, Patrick (27 June 2017). "Coquard excluded from Tour de France team". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ↑ "Coquard chooses Vital Concept over Quickstep Floors". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-oman-2018/stage-1/results/
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/coquard-puts-laporte-defeat-behind-him-to-win-in-oman/
External links
- Bryan Coquard at Cycling Archives