Alexandre Geniez

Alexandre Geniez

Alexandre Geniez (2016)
To person
Date of birth	April 16, 1988
nation	France
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Ag2r La Mondiale
function	driver
Most important successes
three stages Vuelta a España
Last updated: September 6, 2018

Alexandre Geniez (born April 16, 1988 ) is a French cyclist .

Career

Alexandre Geniez was successful in two U23 stage races in 2009 : he won the overall ranking of the Ronde de l'Isard and one stage of the Giro della Valle d'Aosta . He then received a contract with what was then the Professional Continental Team from 2010 and stayed there until 2012. In 2010 he won a stage of the Tour of Austria and thus his first international elite race.

2013 he joined the French UCI ProTeam FDJ.fr . For this team he won a mountain finish as a soloist at the Vuelta a España 2013 . He did the same at the Vuelta a España 2016 . At the Giro d'Italia 2015 he was ninth overall.

At the Vuelta a España 2017 , Geniez and his teammate Nico Denz were taken out of the race by his new team Ag2r La Mondiale after they both clung to a support car on the 15th stage on the final climb.

He achieved a third stage victory in the Tour of Spain on the twelfth stage of the Vuelta a España 2018 through the sprint victory of a five-man breakaway group.

successes

2009

• Overall ranking Ronde de l'Isard
• a stage of the Giro della Valle d'Aosta

2011

• Young talent competition Tour of Luxembourg
• one stage tour of Austria

2013

• a stage Vuelta a España

2015

• Tro Bro Leon
• Overall ranking and a stage Tour de l'Ain

2016

• Team time trial Mediterranean Tour
• a stage Tour de l'Ain
• a stage Vuelta a España

2017

• one stage and combined classification Tour La Provence
• a stage and points classification Tour de l'Ain
• Tre Valli Varesine

2018

• Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
• Overall ranking and prologue Tour La Provence
• a stage Vuelta a España

2019

• a stage Tour de l'Ain

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	13	9	DNF	DNF	11
Tour de France	-	-	44	-	112	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	158	90	47	-	-	108	DNF	90

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2010 Skil-Shimano
• 2011 Skil-Shimano
• 2012 Argos-Shimano team
• 2013 FDJ.fr
• 2014 FDJ.fr
• 2015 FDJ
• 2016 FDJ
• 2017 Ag2r La Mondiale
• 2018 Ag2r La Mondiale
• 2019 Ag2r La Mondiale
• 2020 Ag2r La Mondiale

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geniez ensures another runaway triumph. In: radsport-news.com. September 8, 2013, accessed October 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Only Geniez escapes the Movistars. In: radsport-news.com. August 22, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Ag2r takes Denz and Geniez from the Vuelta. In: radsport-news.com. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Geniez succeeds in what he loves about cycling: He wins in Manon. In: radsport-news.com. September 6, 2018, accessed February 10, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Alexandre Geniez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alexandre Geniez in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Alexandre Geniez in the ProCyclingStats.com database