Jérémy Roy

Jérémy Roy

File:Jeremy Roy 3.jpg Roy at the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Jérémy Roy
Born	(1983-06-22) June 22, 1983 Tours, France
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Groupama–FDJ
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Breakaway specialist
Professional team(s)
2003–	FDJeux.com
Major wins
Paris–Nice, 1 stage Tour de France Combativity award (2011)
Infobox last updated on February 9, 2014

Jérémy Roy (born June 22, 1983) is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Groupama–FDJ. He was named the most aggressive rider of the 2011 Tour de France after escaping into breakaways on many stages and continuously attacking from inside the breakaway.

Biography

Born in Tours, Roy turned professional with FDJeux.com in 2004. During his early career, he continued his studies at the French National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes, and graduated in 2007 in mechanical and automated engineering. Despite splitting his time between studying and cycling, Roy still finished 4th in the Tour de Picardie and won the young rider competition in 2006. Also in 2006, he finished 4th in the Châteauroux Classic de l'Indre, then 4th in the Grand Prix de Plumelec Morbihan in 2007 and 5th in the Route du Sud in 2008.

Roy gained his first professional victory on March 12, 2009, when he won stage 5 of Paris–Nice, beating his breakaway companion Thomas Voeckler in a sprint. The following year he won the Tro Bro Leon, performed well in the La Flèche Wallonne and finished third in the prologue of the Tour de Romandie.

He won his first race of 2011, the Grand Prix La Marseillaise Open in late January. He began the 2011 Tour de France by attacking on the 1st stage, and again on stage 4, winning the award for most combatative rider for that stage. Roy came agonisingly close to winning stage 13, finishing third after being caught with 2.5 km to go, by Thor Hushovd and David Moncoutié, after a challenging pursuit in the final kilometres. He did, however, gain enough points to take the lead in the classification for the Polka Dot Jersey, and the combativity award once more. He also got in a break on the final stage and spent over 700 km of the race in breakaways.

Palmarès

2003

2nd European Under-23 Road Race Championships

2005

6th Tour du Doubs

6th Route Adélie

9th Tour de Vendée

10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

2006

4th Overall Tour de Picardie

1st Young rider classification

4th Châteauroux Classic

2007

4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan

8th Cholet-Pays de Loire

9th Tour du Doubs

2008

5th Route du Sud

2009

1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice

2010

1st Tro-Bro Léon

2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux)

10th Tour du Finistère

2011

1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

Tour de France

Held King of the Mountains Jersey, Stage 13

Combativity award Stages 4 and 13

Super Combativity award

1st Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux)

2nd National Time Trial Championships

8th Chrono des Nations

2012

2nd Overall Tour du Limousin

1st Stage 4

2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

9th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt

2013

1st Mountains classification Critérium International

2nd National Time Trial Championships

4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

4th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt

2014

2nd Chrono des Nations

5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Giro	—	—	—	82	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour	—	—	—	121	46	142	85	66	126	57	105
Vuelta	82	122	104	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

External links

• Jérémy Roy at Cycling Archives
• Jérémy Roy's profile at Cyclingbase