Bryan Coquard

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Bryan Coquard Road cycling
Bryan Coquard (2019)
Bryan Coquard (2019)
To person
Nickname Le Coq
Date of birth April 25, 1992
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Train, road
Driver type Track endurance, road sprinters
height 169 cm
Racing weight 58 kg
To the team
Current team B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
function driver
Most important successes
Olympic games
2012 silver - Omnium
UCI track world championships
2015 World Champion - two-man team driving
UEC European Rail Championships
2019 European Champion 2016 - Omnium
Last updated: June 5, 2020

Bryan Coquard (born April 25, 1992 in Saint-Nazaire ) is a French cyclist . In track cycling , he was, among others, Olympic silver medalist and world champion. On the road , he won numerous races on the international calendar, primarily in the sprint.

Career

As a junior driver, Bryan Coquard won the Omnium on the track at the Junior World Track Championships in Moscow . The following year he was runner-up in the junior European road racing championship and third in the European scratch championship .

In 2011 Coquard started in the elite , became French champion in team pursuit and scratch, in two-man team driving he was runner-up, together with Morgan Lamoisson . At the European Railway Championships in Apeldoorn in October , he won the silver medal in the Omnium , after having previously occupied eighth place in the same discipline at the World Championships in March . Bryan Coquard won the silver medal in the Omnium at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . Together with Morgan Kneisky he was world champion at the 2015 rail world championships in Madison .

On the road, Coquard received his first contract with an international cycling team in 2013 , the French professional Continental Team Europcar . The light, only 1.69 meter tall Coquard is considered a sprint specialist who, with a racing weight of 58 kilograms, is particularly successful on the slightly uphill straight home straight or winding final sprints. He won numerous one-day races and daily sections of international competitions as well as the overall ranking of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque in 2016, a tour of the hors category .

In the 2015 Tour de France , Coquard finished second behind André Greipel in the final sprint of the final stage on the Champs-Elysées ; In 2016 he was beaten by Marcel Kittel on the fourth stage on increasing target degrees by only 2.5 centimeters. In 2016 he won the overall ratings of 4 Jours de Dunkerque and the Boucles de la Mayenne . By 2019 he had numerous other stage victories in tours, in 2019 he won the Grote Prijs Marcel Kint . On the train he was in the same year European champion in the points race , finishing in the elimination races second place.

Honors

In 2013 Coquard became a Knight of the French National Order of Merit .

successes

Street

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

train

2009
  • World Champion World Champion - Omnium (Juniors)
  • European champion European Champion - Scratch
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
  • World ChampionWorld Champion - Madison with Morgan Kneisky
  • European champion European Champion - Elimination Trials
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - ...
Yellow jersey Tour de France 104 110 113 - - - ...
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - ...

Teams

Web links

Commons : Bryan Coquard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alasdair Fortheringham: Easily and quickly . In: Procycling , German edition . September, 2016, p. 22nd ff .
  2. ↑ At the finish, Kittel did not know that he had won. In: radsport-news.com. August 24, 2016, accessed January 2016 .
  3. ↑ on legiondhonneur.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013 and Cérémonie de remise de décorations aux médaillés Olympiques de Londres ( Memento of March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on elysee.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Coquard, Bryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Nazaire