Samuel Dumoulin

Samuel Dumoulin
	Samuel Dumoulin (2015)
To person
Date of birth	20th August 1980
nation	France
discipline	Street
height	159 cm
Racing weight	56 kg
To the team
Current team	B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
function	Sports director
Team (s)
2002–2003 ; 2004–2007 ; 2008–2012 ; 2013–2019	Jean Delatour ; AG2R Prévoyance ; Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne ; Ag2r La Mondiale
Most important successes
	a stage Tour de France 2008
	Last updated: November 18, 2019

Samuel Dumoulin (born August 20, 1980 in Vénissieux ) is a former French cyclist .

Career

Dumoulin turned professional with Jean Delatour in 2002 . He achieved his first international success that year with a stage win at the Tour de l'Avenir . In 2003 he won the overall ranking of the Tour de Normandie , the semi-classic Tro Bro Leon and two stages of the Tour de l'Avenir.

He then drove for Ag2r , where he was under contract until 2007. During this time he achieved his first victory in a UCI ProTour race with a stage win at the Critérium du Dauphiné . He also repeated his victory at Tro Bro Leon in 2004, was French road champion in 2005 and won the Route Adélie in 2006 .

After Dumoulin moved to Cofidis in 2008 , he became the winner of the third stage of the Tour de France 2008 out of a four-man breakaway group , which is his greatest success of his career. At Cofidis he won numerous other races, including a total of three stages of the Tour of Catalonia in 2010 and 2011 and the overall ratings of the stage races Étoile de Bessèges and Paris-Corrèze .

After that, Dumoulin returned to Ag2r La Mondiale in 2013, for which he won six international one-day races and two stages of international races by 2017 .

At the end of the 2019 season, Dumoulin ended his active career at the age of 39 and became Sports Director at Vital Concept-B & B Hotels .