Blel Kadri (born 3 September 1986) is a former French professional road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam . He is of Algerian descent.

Career

2013

In March 2013, Kadri won the Roma Maxima, a newly revived race formerly known as the Giro del Lazio. He was part of the early breakaway which formed after the first hour of racing, and shook off his fellow escapees until he was alone with to go. He managed to resist to the

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's onslaught and triumphed in Rome.

2014

On 12 July 2014, he achieved his biggest success, winning his first stage victory in the

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. Also, on this stage, he won the Most Combative Rider award for the second time during the Tour de France and held the King of the Mountains jersey.

Post-cycling

After retiring from professional racing, he was working in the cycling aisle of a department store in

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Career achievements

Major results

;2007 : 7th Overall Giro delle Regioni ;2008 : 2nd Overall Ronde de l'Isard ::1st Stage 2 : 7th Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou ;2009 : 3rd

Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries, also being p ...

: 7th Trophée des Grimpeurs ;2010 : 7th Overall Route du Sud ::1st Stage 2 : 9th Overall

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a ...

;2011 : 2nd Overall

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 H ...

: 4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt : 8th Overall

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (currently branded as the Santos Tour Down Under for sponsorship reasons) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia. It is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and UCI Women’s WorldTour ...

: 10th Overall

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

;2012 : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification, Route du Sud : 10th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche ;2013 : 1st Roma Maxima : Jersey red number

Combativity award Stage 2

;2014 :

::1st Stage 8 ::Held Jersey polkadot

after Stage 8 :: Jersey red number

Combativity award Stages 2 & 8

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Cycling Base: Blel Kadri
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Ag2r-La Mondiale: Blel Kadri
1986 births Living people French male cyclists Cyclists from Bordeaux 2014 Tour de France stage winners French Tour de France stage winners French sportspeople of Algerian descent 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-bio-1980s-stub