Romain Sicard

Romain Sicard
Sicard at the 2009 Ronde de l'Isard
Personal information
Full name Romain Sicard
Born (1988-01-01) 1 January 1988
Bayonne, France
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 64.5 kg (142 lb; 10.16 st)
Team information
Current team Direct Énergie
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber/Puncheur
Amateur team(s)
2007–2008 GSC Blagnac
Professional team(s)
2008–2009 Orbea–Oreka SDA
2010–2013 Euskaltel–Euskadi
2014– Team Europcar[1]

Romain Sicard (born 1 January 1988 in Bayonne) is a French professional racing cyclist, currently riding for UCI Professional Continental team Direct Énergie.[2]

Career

In 2009 he won the under 23 World Road Race Championships.[3] In 2010, he joined the Basque UCI ProTour team Euskaltel–Euskadi as the second ever French national after Thierry Elissalde.

Sicard joined Team Europcar for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Euskaltel–Euskadi[4] – folded at the end of the 2013 season.[1]

Career achievements

Major results

2008
9th Overall Ronde de l'Isard
2009
1st Road race, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships
1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 8
1st Subida al Naranco
1st Stage 2 Ronde de l'Isard
3rd Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou
4th Cinturó de l'Empordà
9th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
10th Vuelta a La Rioja
2010
9th Vuelta a La Rioja
10th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
2014
7th Overall Tour de l'Ain
2015
5th Time trial, National Road Championships
6th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
2016
8th Overall Critérium International
2017
2nd Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
7th Overall Tour du Limousin
2018
8th Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
10th Classic Sud-Ardèche

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — 51 — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — 122 — 33 81 66 73
A red jersey Vuelta a España 44 — 13 15 55 — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. 1 2 "Sicard and Martinez join Team Europcar". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Bonamy, Raphaël (1 September 2017). "Direct Énergie: le point sur l'effectif 2018" [Direct Énergie: Roster Update 2018]. Ouest-France (in French). Groupe Ouest-France. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Sicard wins world Under 23 road title Archived 2009-09-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Urraburu, Benito (21 October 2012). "Euskaltel ya tiene completo su equipo para 2013 con diez nuevos fichajes" [Euskaltel team already full for 2013 with ten new signings]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Grupo Vocento. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

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