Alexandre Blain (born 7 March 1981) is a French former

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

, who now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . He started cycling for his local mountain bike club in his hometown of Peillon in 1997, riding in downhill mountain biking before switching to cross-country. He was a member of

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and Continental teams and . In November 2015 he was announced as a member of the squad for 2016.

Major results

;2005 : 1st Stage 4 Volta a Lleida ;2006 : 2nd Points race, National Track Championships ;2007 : 1st Overall

Tour du Loir-et-Cher The Tour du Loir-et-Cher is a cycling stage race that takes place in the Loir-et-Cher region of France. The race traditionally starts and finishes in the capital of Blois. Since at least 2009, the final stage has consisted of a 12-lap circuit ra ...

: 1st Boucles Catalanes : 1st Stage 2

Tour de Gironde The Tour de Gironde is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It was organised as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cy ...

: 1st Stage 5

Ronde de l'Oise The Ronde de l'Oise is a cycling stage race held annually in the department of Oise in France. It was founded in 1954 and in 2007 became part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing ...

: 6th Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse ;2008 : 7th Châteauroux Classic : 8th

Grand Prix de Denain Grand Prix de Denain is a professional cycle road race held in Denain, France. For 10 years from 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before becoming a 1.HC The UCI 1.HC and UCI 2.HC are the second tier classifica ...

;2010 : 10th

East Midlands International CiCLE Classic East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fa ...

;2011 : 1st Overall

Tour de Normandie Tour de Normandie is a road bicycle race held annually in the region of Normandy, France. The race started in 1939, but was not held in the periods of 1940–1955 and 1960–1980. It was originally a race for amateurs, but was opened for professi ...

::1st Stage 7 : 3rd Tallinn–Tartu GP : 6th

Paris–Bourges Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities an ...

: 7th Druivenkoers Overijse : 9th

Tro-Bro Léon Tro-Bro Léon ( en, Tour of Léon, french: Tour du Léon) is a professional cycle road race held in Finistère, Brittany. The event was first run in 1984 as an amateur race before becoming a professional race since 2000. The race was establishe ...

;2012 : 1st Maldon Dengie Tour : 1st

Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic The Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic is a road bicycle race that starts in Oakham and finishes in Melton Mowbray. The 2008 version was 158 km long. The race is characterised by its off-road sections and short, sharp climbs o ...

: 3rd Overall Mi-Août Bretonne : 3rd

Beverbeek Classic Beverbeek Classic is a single-day bicycle road race held annually in Hamont-Achel, in the Belgian region of Limburg. From 1998 to 2003, it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, it is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Con ...

: 4th

Omloop van het Waasland Omloop van het Waasland ("Circuit of Waasland") is a bicycle road race held annually in the Belgian region of Waasland. Since 2009, it is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is also known for being the last professional cycling ...

: 7th Tartu GP ;2013 : 2nd Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 3 ;2014 : 1st Overall British Cycling Elite Circuit Series ::5th Otley Grand Prix ::5th Stockton Festival of Cycling Criterium ::6th Colne Grand Prix ::6th Sheffield Grand Prix ::8th Beverley Grand Prix : 1st Severn Bridge Road Race : 4th Circuit of the Fens : 5th Stafford GP : 7th Eddie Soens Memorial ;2015 : 4th Overall Circuit des Ardennes ::1st Stage 3 ( TTT) : 9th La Roue Tourangelle ;2016 : 1st Round 10 - Portsmouth,

Tour Series The Tour Series is an annual series of cycling criterium races held in the United Kingdom since 2009. It is televised by ITV4 in the UK. The competition emphasises team effort with individual wins deemed less important. The races are held over 1 ...

: 5th Beaumont Trophy : 7th

References

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* * * French male cyclists 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Aix-en-Provence {{France-cycling-bio-1980s-stub