Eric Boyer

Eric Boyer

Eric Boyer at the 1993 Tour de France
To person
Date of birth	2nd December 1963
nation	France
discipline	Street
End of career	1995
Team (s)
1985 1986–1988 1989 1990 1991–1992 1993–1994 1995	Renault-Elf Système U Z-Peugeot Z-Tommaso Z Gan Polti
Team (s) as team manager
2005–2012	Cofidis
Last updated: May 17, 2020

Éric Boyer (* 2. December 1963 in Choisy-le-Roi , Region Val-de-Marne ) is a former professional French road cyclists and team managers .

Career

At the 1986 Tour de France , he and his teammates from Système U won a stage in the team time trial on the second stage. In 1988 he finished in the Tour de France in 1988 as the best-placed French driver in 5th place in the overall standings. At the Giro d'Italia 1990 he was able to win two stages. A year later Boyer achieved a 1 stage win at the Giro d'Italia 1991 and reached 6th place in the final ranking.

From 2005 to June 2012 he was the manager of the Cofidis team. From 2008 to 2009 he was briefly President of the AIGCP .

Since 2018 he has been a consultant for the French radio station RMC as a member of the "Dream Team" for tour reporting.

successes

1986

• Grand Prix de Rennes
• a stage of the MZF Tour de France

1987

• 5th place overall Paris-Nice
• a stage Midi Libre
• 6th place overall and two stages of the Tour de l'Avenir
• a stage tour of Ireland
• 4th place Lombardy Tour

1988

• 5th place overall Tour de France
• Overall ranking Midi Libre
• 4th place Amstel Gold Race

1989

• Overall ranking Route d'Occitanie
• two stages of the Giro d'Italia

1990

• La Poly Normade
• two stages of the Giro d'Italia

1991

• 6th place overall and one stage Giro d'Italia

1992

• Overall ranking and a Tour du Limousin
• 8th place overall and a Tour de Suisse stage

1993

• Overall ranking and a stage Route d'Occitanie
• Overall ranking Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Giro d'Italia					23	6th				69
Tour de France	-	98	-	5	DNF	19th	38	12	63	-
Vuelta a España	40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

• Eric Boyer at www.procyclingstats.com
• Éric Boyer in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 5th place from Eric Boyer on histo.letour.fr (fr)
2. ↑ Boyer as team manager on www.radsportseiten.net
3. ↑ https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/boyer-takes-aigcp-reins/ Election of Boyer as President of the AIGCP at www.cyclingnews.com (en)
4. ^ Resignation Boyer as President AIGCP on web.archive.org
5. ↑ Boyer member of the "RMC Sport Cycling Dream Team (fr)