Matthieu Ladagnous (born 12 December 1984) is a French former road and track racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023, spending his entire career with UCI WorldTeam . Riding entirely for the team and its succeeding iterations since his début in 2006, Ladagnous has taken eleven victories during his professional career, including victories in the 2007

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and 2009 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo stage races.

Career

Born in Pau, Ladagnous became junior world champion at the madison in

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in 2002 with his partner Tom Thiblier. In 2003 he won the French national title at the points race for the under-23 level. He also won a bronze medal at the individual sprint (under-23) and a silver medal at the madison with Fabien Patanchon in the elite class. Later that year he and Patanchon became European champions at the under-23 track cycling championships. A year later he won the bronze medal at the scratch in the 2003 under-23 championships. He improved his bronze national individual pursuit manager into a gold, while his points race gold was changed in a silver in 2004. In the elite class he won the madison gold, again alongside Patanchon. In 2005 he first continued as a track cyclist and added another national under-23 silver to his palmarès at the individual pursuit. A silver medal in the elite class was added at the madison where he teamed up with Patanchon again. At the team pursuit he, Anthony Langella, Fabien Sanchez and Mickaël Mallie won the gold medal and became national elite champions. At the 2005 European championships in Fiorenzuola d'Arda he won a silver medal at the points race. In 2005 he also made his first road cycling appearance. He immediately won the prologue in the Mainfranken-Tour (under-23) and the overall classification. He decided to focus mainly at the road for the 2006 season, but won another team pursuit gold with Mickaël Delage, Jonathan Mouchel, Mikaël Preau and Sylvain Blanquefort. He booked his first road race win in 2006, when he won the fifth stage of the Tour Méditerranéen. The following year he won the fifth stage and the general classification of the

. He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia. In January 2023, entering his eighteenth season as a professional – all with and its preceding iterations – Ladagnous announced that he would retire from the sport at the end of the year.

Personal life

He is the brother of French

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international Caroline Ladagnous.

Major results

Track

;2002 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships ;2003 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Madison, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotFra

Under-23 points race ::2nd Madison ::3rd Under-23 individual pursuit ;2004 : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotFra

Madison ::1st MaillotFra

Under-23 individual pursuit ::2nd Points race : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Scratch, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Scratch, UCI Track World Cup Classics,

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;2005 : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotFra

Team pursuit ::2nd Madison ::2nd Under-23 individual pursuit : 2nd Silver medal europe

Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships : 2nd UIV Cup,

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;2006 : 1st MaillotFra

Team pursuit, National Track Championships

Road

Source: ;2005 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Mainfranken-Tour Under-23 ::1st Prologue : 1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites ::1st Stages 2a & 3 : 5th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher : 9th Road race,

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;2006 : 1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen : 6th

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: 6th Tour de Vendée : 7th Le Samyn ;2007 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall

::1st

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 5 : 4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Polynormande : 2nd Tour de Vendée : 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var : 4th Overall

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: 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 9th Overall

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: 10th Overall

: 10th

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;2010 : 2nd Overall

: 2nd Cholet-Pays de Loire : 4th Tour du Doubs ;2011 : 1st Stage 1

: 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin ::1st Stages 3 & 4 : 4th Tour du Doubs : 5th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 7th Tro-Bro Léon : 8th Polynormande ;2012 : 5th

: 6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 7th E3 Harelbeke : 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2013 : 1st

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: 1st Stage 3 Tour du Limousin : 5th Tour of Flanders : 6th

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: 6th

: 8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie ;2014 : 7th Tour de Vendée ;2015 : 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var : 5th

;2016 : 2nd Overall La Méditerranéenne ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 4th

: 6th Overall Tour de Picardie : 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2018 : 7th Paris–Camembert : 8th

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: 8th Tour du Doubs : 8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli ;2020 : Jersey red number

Combativity award Stage 11

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;2022 : 10th Tro-Bro Léon

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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* * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ladagnous, Matthieu 1984 births Living people French male cyclists French track cyclists Olympic cyclists for France Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Cyclists from Pyrénées-Atlantiques Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games competitors for France 21st-century French sportsmen