Jean-Christophe Péraud

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Jean-Christophe Péraud Road cycling
Jean-Christophe Péraud at the Tour de l'Ain 2014
Jean-Christophe Péraud at the Tour de l'Ain 2014
To person
Date of birth May 22, 1977
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Road, mountain bike, cyclocross
Driver type Tour driver
End of career 2016
Team (s)
1998
2004–2005
2006–2008
2009
2010
2011–2016 		Lapierre (MTB)
Lapierre International (MTB)
Orbea (MTB)
Massi (MTB)
Omega Pharma-Lotto
Ag2r La Mondiale
Most important successes
Last updated: July 26, 2014

Jean-Christophe Péraud (born May 22, 1977 in Toulouse ) is a former French mountain bike , cyclocross and road cyclist . He is a three-time Olympic athlete (2004, 2008, 2012).

Career

Jean-Christophe Péraud started with mountain biking . At the age of 20, he was given a two-week ban after showing a hematocrit value over 50 during a health check at the 1997 French championships . Péraud, who claims to have a normal value between 48 and 50, was called a fraud by a French official and was about to end his cycling career.

Péraud started in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in the cross-country competition and reached eleventh place. The following year he became European Cross Country Champion in Kluisbergen, ahead of his compatriot, the Olympic champion Julien Absalon . At the Mountain Bike World Championships in 2008 he won the gold medal in the relay competition with the French national team. A short time later he was second in the mountain bike race behind Julien Absalon at the Summer Olympics in Beijing .

On the road, Péraud won a stage at the Circuit de Saône-et-Loire in 2007 and was third overall. The next year he was national champion in the road race of amateurs at the French championship . He also won part of the Tour du Pays Roannais. From the 2009 season, Péraud focused mostly on road racing. He first won the Chrono d'Or and then became French champion in the individual time trial . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2009 in Mendrisio , Switzerland , he came twelfth in the same discipline. In the Chrono des Nations held in autumn , Péraud finished second behind Alexander Vinokurow .

In the 2010 season he drove for the UCI ProTeam Omega Pharma Lotto . Péraud took part in Paris – Nice and was in the top ten on three stages. In the overall standings he was finally in ninth place, 1:16 minutes behind the winner Alberto Contador . The Tour of the Basque Country in 2010 , he finished first in fifth place, pushed by the subsequent disqualification of Alejandro Valverde but to fourth place before. This was followed by participation in the Tour de Romandie (abandoned during the 5th stage) and in the Tour of Poland (13th place). In August and September he took part in a Grand Tour with the Vuelta for the first time . The three-week tour won by Vincenzo Nibali finished Péraud in 39th place.

Péraud at the Tour de Romandie 2011

For the 2011 season, Jean-Christophe Péraud moved to the French team Ag2r La Mondiale . As in the previous year, he took part in Paris – Nice , where he was sixth as the best Frenchman. At the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 he finished seventh in the overall ranking after seven stages. In the summer of 2011 he also started the Tour de France for the first time . He was able to keep up with the favorites in the mountain stages and was sixth in the individual time trial on the penultimate stage. He moved up from eleventh place to ninth place and thus among the top ten of the most important stage race.

After Péraud had finished Paris – Nice 2012 in 90th place, he reached seventh place in the Tour of the Basque Country, 1:07 minutes behind the victorious Spaniard Samuel Sánchez . At the 2012 Tour de France , Jean-Christophe Péraud was unable to match the performance of the previous year and ended up in 44th place, more than an hour behind tour winner Bradley Wiggins .

In the 2013 Mediterranean Tour , Péraud won a mountain stage and after the last stage was in the overall standings at the same time as the Swede Thomas Lövkvist , who was awarded overall victory in the tour due to the better stage placements. At Paris – Nice 2013 , he achieved his first podium finish in a race of the UCI WorldTour with the bronze rank . In preparation for the tour, he then took part in the Critérium International (5th place), the Tour of the Basque Country (17th place), the Tour de Romandie (6th place) and the Tour de Suisse (13th place). At the Tour of France he led his team Ag2r as team captain. After the 16th stage he was ninth overall, five and a half minutes behind the eventual winner Chris Froome . Due to a fall during the time trial in the 17th stage, he had to end the tour early.

The 2014 season also began for Péraud with a participation in the Mediterranean cruise. He was able to win a stage again, but in the end was again just under second place, this time four seconds behind Steve Cummings . With the Critérium International 2014 he achieved his first overall victory in a stage race. At the French championships in the individual time trial, Jean-Christophe Péraud was fourth. For the 2014 Tour de France , he again led his team ag2r as captain. Initially he was not traded as a contender for a podium, but reached Paris in second place overall behind tour winner Nibali and ahead of his compatriot Thibaut Pinot , whom he was only able to push to third place on the penultimate stage in the individual time trial.

Péraud ended his cycling career at the end of 2016.

successes

Mountain bike

2005
  • European champion European Champion - Cross Country
2008

Street

2009
  • MaillotFra.PNG French champion - individual time trial
2013
2014
2015

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - DNF
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 9 44 DNF 2 61 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 39 - - - - - 13
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Christophe Péraud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Péraud almost quit cycling at 20 following doping accusations. cyclingnews.com, December 4, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Stephen Puddicombe: 11 notable pro riders who have retired in 2016. In: Cycling Weekly. December 9, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Péraud, Jean-Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mountain bike, cyclocross and road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse , France