Jérémy Roy (cyclist)

Jérémy Roy
	Roy at the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Jérémy Roy
Born	22 June 1983 (age 41); 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

2001

5th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships

2002

4th Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines

2003

2nd

Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road 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 Overall Route du Sud

7th Duo Normand (with Yoann Le Boulanger)

2009

1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice

2010

1st Tro-Bro Léon

2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux)

8th Chrono des Herbiers

10th Tour du Finistère

2011

1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux)

Tour de France

Held

Stage 13

Combativity award Stages 4, 13 & Overall

2012

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

2nd Overall Tour du Limousin

1st Stage 4

2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

4th Chrono des Nations

9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt

2013

1st

Mountains classification Critérium International

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt

8th Chrono des Nations

2014

2nd Chrono des Nations

5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

2016

7th Chrono des Nations

8th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes

Combativity award Stage 14 Tour de France

2017

7th Chrono des Nations

2018

3rd Duo Normand (with Bruno Armirail)

7th Chrono des Nations

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	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—