Christophe Riblon (born 17 January 1981) is a French former

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and track

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who competed as a professional for the team for 13 seasons between 2005 and 2017. He also competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Career

Born in

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, Riblon won two mountain-top finishes of the Tour de France, including stage 14 of the

2010 Tour de France The 2010 Tour de France was the 97th edition of the Tour de France cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on with an 8.9 km prologue time trial in Rotterdam, the first start in the Netherlands since 1996. The race visited thr ...

at the ski resort of

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in the Pyrenees, and stage 18 of the

2013 Tour de France The 2013 Tour de France was the 100th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on the island of Corsica on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 21 July. The Tour consisted of twenty-one stag ...

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. During his 2010 victory, he was part of the early breakaway that went free into the race, and he crested the penultimate climb of the day alone, the

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. He had a two-minute lead at the foot of the last climb, and held on to win solo as the general classification contenders were battling it out behind him. He won his 2013 stage following a long breakaway, chasing down

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over the second ascent of Alpe d'Huez and holding on to win by a minute, despite crashing into a ditch on the descent of the

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. In doing so he became the race's first (and only) French winner of a stage that year.

Major results

;2001 : 8th

Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies The Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in ...

;2004 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Amateur Road Championships ;2005 : 2nd Overall

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independent ...

: 8th Tartu GP : 10th Overall

Tour du Poitou-Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Eu ...

;2006 : 5th

GP 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 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries, also being part of the French Roa ...

: 7th Overall

Circuit de Lorraine The Circuit de Lorraine is a multi-stage road bicycle racing event held annually in Lorraine, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...

::1st Stage 4 ;2007 : 1st Tour de la Somme : 2nd Duo Normand (with

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) ;2008 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, UCI Track World Championships ;2009 : 1st Stage 3

Route du Sud The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...

: 6th

Clásica de San Sebastián The Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián (San Sebastián Classic) is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern Spain that has been held every summer since 1981 in San Sebastián. It is the mo ...

;2010 : 1st Stage 14

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ...

: 1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche : 2nd Silver medal blank

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(with

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), UCI Track World Championships : 5th 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 ...

: 5th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt : 7th Overall

Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycling road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France. The race is run over eight days during the first half of June. It is part ...

;2011 : 2nd

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, National Road Championships : 7th Tour du Doubs : 8th Overall

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stage ...

: 10th Overall

;2012 : 9th Overall

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of the season, it is considered to be an important pre ...

: 9th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche : 10th Overall

Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, typically the last weekend of March. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in 1932. For many years ...

;2013 :

::1st Stage 18 :: Jersey red number

Combativity award Stage 18 & Overall : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 2 ;2014 : 4th Overall

;2015 : 7th Overall

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Other major stage races

References

External links

Profile at AG2R Prévoyance official website
* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riblon, Christophe 1981 births Living people People from Tremblay-en-France French male cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of France French Tour de France stage winners 2013 Tour de France stage winners 2010 Tour de France stage winners French track cyclists Sportspeople from Seine-Saint-Denis Cyclists from Île-de-France