Jérémy Roy (cyclist)

Jérémy Roy

Roy at the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Jérémy Roy
Born	(1983-06-22) 22 June 1983 (age 38) Tours, France
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Breakaway specialist
Professional team
2003–2018	FDJeux.com
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Combativity award (2011)

Jérémy Roy (born 22 June 1983) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2003 and 2018, spending his entire career with the Groupama–FDJ team through its various team guises.^[1] 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 2003. 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 12 March 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 combative 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.

Major results[]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	82	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	73	109
Tour de France	—	—	—	121	46	142	85	66	126	57	105	96	—	—
Vuelta a España	82	122	104	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

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External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jérémy Roy.

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