Mickaël Delage (born 6 August 1985) is a French former professional road and track cyclist, who last rode for

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Career

Born in

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, Delage participated at the World Track Championships in

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in 2003 as a junior, where he won the silver medal at the points race, after Australian Miles Olman. In that same year he would become national junior champion of France at the team pursuit (alongside

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, Yannick Marie and Mickaël Mallie) and the madison (together with Mouchel). In 2004 he would win the national title in the points race at the under-23 level. Delage spent 17 years as a professional rider on the road, riding for 15 of those years with the team across two spells. He made his Giro d'Italia debut in 2006 and finished in 129th position and he won the 1st stage of the

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. Later that year he would again become French national champion when he won the team pursuit together with

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, Jonathan Mouchel, Sylvain Blanquefort and Mickaël Preau. In 2007 he made his

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debut. Delage's two periods with FDJ were separated by an interlude with , joining the Belgian squad alongside FDJ team-mate

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. Whilst at Lotto he achieved what he later described as the best performance of his career, finishing as runner-up in the

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. He returned to FDJ in 2011, where he found a role as a leadout man for

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. Delage suffered injuries at the

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when he crashed whilst riding downhill at 80 km/h, including a meniscus injury and

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s. Following this he decided to retire from competition when his contract expired at the end of the following season. Although his 2021 season was disrupted by undergoing knee surgery in March, he returned to competition at the

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, and finished his career at

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in the autumn.

Major results

;2003 : National Junior Track Championships ::1st MaillotFra

Team pursuit ::1st MaillotFra

Madison : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race,

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;2004 : 1st MaillotFra

Points race, National Under-23 Track Championships ;2005 : 9th Overall

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;2006 : 1st MaillotFra

Team pursuit,

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: 1st Stage 1

;2007 : 10th

Tour de Vendée Tour of Vendée is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in October (Previously May) in the region of Vendée, France, finishing in a circuit inside La Roche-sur-Yon town. From 2005 until 2009, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on ...

;2008 : 4th Overall

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI World ...

;2009 : 2nd

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 : 3rd

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, National Road Championships ;2011 : 5th Overall

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the ...

: 6th

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: 7th Overall

Tour de Picardie The Tour de Picardie was a professional multi-stage cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy, France. In its last twelve editions, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was called Tour de l'Oise ...

: 9th Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

: 9th

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, Stages 3 & 11 ;2012 : 3rd

Cholet-Pays de Loire Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Cholet, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle ra ...

: 3rd

Grand Prix de la Somme The Grand Prix de la Somme (formerly the Tour de la Somme) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in May in Somme, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It ...

: 6th

Polynormande The Polynormande is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Normandy, France. Between 1980 and 2002 it was a criterium. Since 2003, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, also being part of ...

;2013 : 1st

La Roue Tourangelle La Roue Tourangelle is a road bicycle race held annually in the Region Centre-Val de Loire, France. The editions 2002–2004 were reserved for amateurs; from 2005 until 2012, it was organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour; in 2013 it be ...

: 7th

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 ...

;2014 : 6th

: 9th

: 10th

;2016 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

La Méditerranéenne La Méditerranéenne, previously known as Tour Méditerranéen, is a professional road bicycle racing event held in Spain, France and Italy, close to the Mediterranean Seaside. Run over four days, it holds a 2.1 rating on the UCI Europe Tour. The ...

: 4th

;2018 : 8th

;2019 : 7th

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delage, Mickael 1985 births Living people French male cyclists French track cyclists People from Libourne Sportspeople from Gironde Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine