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Romain Sicard

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Romain Sicard
Sicard in 2012
Personal information
Full nameRomain Sicard
Born (1988-01-01) 1 January 1988 (age 36)
Bayonne, France
Height1.77 m (5 ft 9+12 in)
Weight64.5 kg (142 lb; 10 st 2 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Climber
  • Puncheur
Amateur teams
2002–2004VC Tarnos
2005–2006US Colomiers
2007–2008GSC Blagnac
Professional teams
2009Orbea
2010–2013Euskaltel–Euskadi
2014–2021Team Europcar[1][2]

Romain Sicard (born 1 January 1988) is a French former professional racing cyclist,[3] who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for the Orbea, Euskaltel–Euskadi and Total Direct Énergie teams.

Career

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Born in Bayonne, Sicard won the Tour de l'Avenir and the under 23 World Road Race Championships in 2009, the only man to win both in the same season.[4] In 2010, he joined the Basque UCI ProTour team Euskaltel–Euskadi as the second ever French national after Thierry Elissalde [fr].

Sicard joined Team Europcar for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Euskaltel–Euskadi[5] – folded at the end of the 2013 season.[6]

He announced his retirement in April 2021 due to the diagnosis of a cardiac anomaly.[3]

Major results

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2008
9th Overall Ronde de l'Isard
2009
1st Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World UChampionships
1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 8 (ITT)
1st Subida al Naranco
1st Stage 2 Ronde de l'Isard
3rd Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou
4th Overall 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
5th Tour du Doubs
7th Overall Tour du Limousin
8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2018
8th Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
10th Classic de l'Ardèche

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 51
A yellow jersey Tour de France 122 33 81 66 73 80 31
A red jersey Vuelta a España 44 13 15 55 45
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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  1. ^ "Total Direct Énergie". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Total Direct Energie". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b Ostanek, Daniel (9 April 2021). "Romain Sicard retires due to a cardiac anomaly". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  4. ^ Sicard wins world Under 23 road title Archived 2009-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Sicard and Martinez join Team Europcar". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
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