Alexis Vuillermoz

Alexis Vuillermoz
	Alexis Vuillermoz (2012)
To person
Nickname	Pikachu
Date of birth	June 1, 1988
nation	France
discipline	Road cycling, mountain biking
To the team
Current team	Ag2r La Mondiale
function	driver
Team (s)
2012 ; 2013 ; 2014–	Saur-Sojasun (Stagiaire) ; Sojasun ; Ag2r La Mondiale
Most important successes
	MTB World Championship - Relay 2008

Alexis Vuillermoz (born June 1, 1988 in Saint-Claude ) is a French cyclist who is active and successful on mountain bikes and road cycling .

Athletic career

Alexis Vuillermoz has been a cyclist since 1999; until 2012 he mainly competed in mountain bike races. In this discipline he was French junior champion in 2006 and in 2009 and 2010 in the U23 class. In 2008 he became French team champion. He was also successful internationally: in 2006 Vuillermoz was Vice European Junior Champion and in 2009 Vice World Champion of U23. In 2008 he was both European and World Champion with the team (with Arnaud Jouffroy , Laurence Leboucher and Jean-Christophe Péraud ).

In 2013 Vuillermoz started for the French UCI Professional Continental Team Sojasun , after he had already been a stagiaire for this team in 2012 . He finished the Tour de France 2013 in 46th place. After the Sojasun team was dissolved at the end of 2013, Vuillermoz joined the UCI WorldTeam Ag2r La Mondiale . For this he drove the 2014 Giro d'Italia , where he finished 11th in the overall ranking. He also won the mountain classification of the Route du Sud and a stage in the Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon that year .

At the Tour de France 2015 , Vuillermoz won the 8th stage from Rennes to Mûr-de-Bretagne . In 2017 he won the Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan as well as the overall classification and a stage of the Tour de Limousin . In addition, he was thirteenth overall at the Tour de France that year . As a result of a fall on the 9th stage of the Tour de France 2018 caused by a spectator taking photos , he broke his collarbone , reached the goal 16 minutes behind and had to give up the tour.