Bruno Langlois (born March 1, 1979) is a

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, who currently rides for club team Cartel RT.

Career

Born in

Matane Matane () is a town on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Matane River. The town is the seat for the La Matanie Regional County Municipality. In addition to Matane itse ...

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, Langlois began his professional career in 1999 with the ''Jet Fuel Coffee – Vitasoy''

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. In 2012, along with

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Phil Cortes, Langlois rode for Canadian

, ranking second in the final

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of the

Tour de Guadeloupe The Tour de Guadeloupe (; ) is an annual men's stage race, multiple stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race held each August in the Overseas region, French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Founded in 1948 under the name Tour Cycliste de la Gu ...

. He was ranked as the best climber in a

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one day race in his home country, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, a very hilly course. In 2014, Langlois was riding with , before he returned to for 2015.

Major results

;2006 : 1st Overall Tobago International ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Shenandoah : 1st Stage 2 Tri-Peaks Challenge ;2008 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour de Québec : 3rd Overall Classique Montréal-Québec Louis Garneau ;2010 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Québec : 2nd Overall

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::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;2011 : 1st Overall Tour de Québec ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 6th

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;2012 : 1st Stage 6

Tour de Beauce Tour de Beauce is a men's elite professional road bicycle racing multi-day event held each June in the Beauce region of Quebec, Canada since 1986. It is the oldest stage-race in North America, and is a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-rated 2. ...

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::1st Stages 4 & 8 : 2nd Overall Tour de Québec ::1st Stages 2 & 5 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 8th Overall

::1st Stages 7 & 8b (

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) : 9th

Tour of the Battenkill The Tour of the Battenkill was a single-day road cycling race held in the Battenkill valley, in Washington County, New York Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,302. The ...

;2013 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 6b ;2014 : 8th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic ;2015 : Grand Prix Cycliste de Saguenay ::1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 ;2016 : 1st MaillotCan

Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd White Spot / Delta Road Race ;2017 : 3rd Winston-Salem Cycling Classic : 8th Overall

: 9th Overall Grand Prix Cycliste de Saguenay ;2018 : 6th Overall

::1st Stage 3

References

External links

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BL CoachingBruno Langlois' profile on Cyclingbase.com
1979 births Canadian male cyclists Cyclists from Quebec Living people People from Matane Tour de Guadeloupe stage winners {{Canada-cycling-bio-stub