Florian Sénéchal

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Florian Sénéchal
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Sénéchal in 2014
Personal information
Full nameFlorian Sénéchal
Born (1993-07-10) 10 July 1993 (age 28)
Cambrai, France
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb)
Team information
Current teamQuick-Step–Alpha Vinyl
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Amateur teams
2010–2011Wasquehal Junior
2012EFC–Omega Pharma–Quick Step
Professional teams
2012Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (stagiaire)
2013Etixx–IHNed
2014–2017Cofidis
2018–Quick-Step Floors[1][2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2021)

One-day races and Classics

Primus Classic (2021)

Florian Sénéchal (born 10 July 1993) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Quick-Step–Alpha Vinyl.[3]

Career[]

He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships, and was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France[4] and the 2016 Vuelta a España.[5] In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.[6] Sénéchal won his first professional race at Le Samyn on 5 March 2019.

He was named in the startlist of the 2021 Vuelta a España,[7] primarily as a lead-out man for Fabio Jakobsen. On stage 13, after Jakobsen was dropped in the final kilometres, Sénéchal held off Matteo Trentin in the final sprint to win his first Grand Tour stage.[8][9]

Major results[]

2011
1st Paris–Roubaix Juniors
4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
6th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
2012
9th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
10th Overall Tour de Bretagne
2013
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Okolo Jižních Čech
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 2
1st Memoriał Henryka Łasaka
2nd De Kustpijl
4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
6th Tour du Finistère
8th Overall Paris–Arras Tour
9th Overall Boucle de l'Artois
2014
6th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
8th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2015
3rd Tro Bro Leon
6th Boucles de l'Aulne
2016
3rd Dwars door het Hageland
3rd Le Samyn
5th Classic Loire Atlantique
5th Tour de l'Eurométropole
8th Overall Tour de Wallonie
1st Young rider classification
10th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
2017
4th Le Samyn
5th Road race, National Road Championships
6th Dwars door het Hageland
7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
10th Dwars door Vlaanderen
2018
2nd Gran Piemonte
2nd Dwars door West–Vlaanderen
3rd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
4th Brussels Cycling Classic
5th Clásica de Almería
6th Münsterland Giro
2019
1st Le Samyn
2nd Tour de l'Eurométropole
6th Paris–Roubaix
6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
7th Binche–Chimay–Binche
9th Bretagne Classic
2020
1st Druivenkoers Overijse
2nd Gent–Wevelgem
3rd Bretagne Classic
4th Overall Tour de Wallonie
4th Dwars door het Hageland
5th Le Samyn
7th Overall BinckBank Tour
7th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2021
1st Primus Classic
1st Stage 13 Vuelta a España
2nd E3 Saxo Bank Classic
2nd Clásica de Almería
3rd Bredene Koksijde Classic
7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
9th Tour of Flanders
9th Dwars door Vlaanderen

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 135 DNF
A yellow jersey Tour de France 135 161
A red jersey Vuelta a España DNF 118

Classics results timeline[]

Monument 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Milan–San Remo 75 173
Tour of Flanders DNF 90 40 44 12 9
Paris–Roubaix 49 17 26 12 DNF 6 NH 71
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Has not contested during his career
Giro di Lombardia DNF
Classic 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 19 24 17 36 DNF 10 7
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 74 DNF 31 DNF 6
Dwars door Vlaanderen 17 DNF 25 10 30 NH 9
E3 Harelbeke 14 16 25 2
Gent–Wevelgem 142 19 DNF 100 47 2
Bretagne Classic 49 43 DNF 9 3
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
IP In progress
NH Not held

References[]

  1. ^ "Florian Sénéchal commits future to Quick-Step Floors". Quick-Step Floors. Decolef Lux. SARL. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ Ryan, Barry (31 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Deceuninck-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Deceuninck - Quick-Step". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  5. ^ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  6. ^ "2018: 101st Giro d'Italia: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. ^ "76th Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  8. ^ Benson, Daniel (27 August 2021). "Vuelta a Espa��a: Florian Sénéchal wins stage 13". CyclingNews. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  9. ^ Bonville-Ginn, Tim (27 August 2021). "Florian Sénéchal sprints to victory on stage 13 of Vuelta a España after Fabio Jakobsen failed to follow the wheels". CyclingWeekly. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

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