Arnaud Démare

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Arnaud Démare Road cycling
Arnaud Démare (2015)
Arnaud Démare (2015)
To person
Date of birth August 26, 1991
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Street
Driver type sprinter
To the team
Current team Groupama-FDJ
function driver
Most important successes

Milan – Sanremo 2016
Vattenfall Cyclassics 2012
two stages Tour de France
one stage Giro d'Italia

Last updated: August 16, 2020
Démare wins the final stage of the 2012 Tour of Qatar

Arnaud Démare (born August 26, 1991 in Beauvais ) is a French cyclist .

Athletic career

As a junior driver, Démare was third in the juniors' European road racing championship in 2009 and won the silver medal in the world championships .

In 2010 he won a stage of the UCI Nations' Cup U23 competition Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay , a bronze medal in the road race of the U23 European Championships, and celebrated his first elite success in July by winning the Grand Prix de Pérenchies . In 2011, Démare achieved further international successes among the U23 road world championship titles.

For the 2012 season, Démare joined the French team FDJ , for which he traveled as a stagiaire at the end of the 2011 season. After five victories this season, he achieved his first victory in a UCI WorldTour race in August 2012 by winning the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg . In the following years he won other international races, primarily in the sprint, including the French road championship in 2014, but also the overall ranking of the four days of Dunkirk stage race in 2013 and 2014.

Démare achieved his most significant career success to date in the mass sprint of the classic Milan-Sanremo . However, he was accused of being pulled by an escort car on the penultimate slope of the race, the Cipressa , in order to catch up with the leading group.

In 2017 Démare was first French road champion, then he won the mass sprint of the fifth stage of the Tour de France . After the ninth stage, however, he was excluded because the time limit was exceeded . In 2018 he won the 18th stage to Pau in the mass sprint of the Tour de France . He also won a stage at the Giro d'Italia 2019 .

successes

2009
  • bronze European Championship - Road Race (Juniors)
  • silver World Championship - Road Racing (Juniors)
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Important placements

Grand Tours
Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - - - DNF - - 123
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 159 138 - DNF 141 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Milan – Sanremo - 129 34 127 1 6th 3 32 24
Tour of Flanders - 24 DNF 23 DNF 56 15th 28
Paris – Roubaix - 90 12 37 - 6th 61 17th
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - - - - - - - -
Lombardy tour - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Arnaud Démare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Did Démare let the team car pull up the Cipressa? In: radsport-news.com. March 20, 2016, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ FDJ helpers do not let Démare down: four men out of the tour. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed July 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Démare, Arnaud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Beauvais , France