Julian Alaphilippe

Julian Alaphilippe
	Julian Alaphilippe as the winner of the Tour of Britain 2018
To person
Nickname	Loulou
Date of birth	11th June 1992 (age 28)
nation	France
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders, classic riders
height	173 cm
Racing weight	62 kg
To the team
Current team	Deceuninck-Quick-Step
function	driver
Societies)
2011–2012	Armée de terre
Team (s)
2013 ; 2014 ; 2015–2016 ; 2017–2018 ; 2019–	Etixx-iHNed ; Omega Pharma-Quick Step ; Etixx-Quick Step ; Quick-Step Floors ; Deceuninck-Quick-Step
Most important successes
	Milan – Sanremo 2019 ; Flèche Wallone 2018, 2019 ; Clásica San Sebastián 2018 ; five stages Tour de France; Mountain classification Tour de France 2018; one stage Vuelta a España 2017
	Last updated: August 30, 2020

Julian Alaphilippe (born June 11, 1992 in Saint-Amand-Montrond ) is a French cyclist .

Career

Julian Alaphilippe won the junior World Cup in Heusden-Zolder and the silver medal at the World Championships in the 2009/2010 cyclocross season . In the U23 class he became French champion in 2012 and 2013. He also won the bronze medal at the European Championships and the World Cup in Rome in 2012 .

In the 2014 season, Alaphilippe received his first contract with a UCI World Team , the Belgian Omega Pharma-Quick-Step , after driving for the Czech UCI Continental Team Etixx-iHNed in 2013 , which served as the farm team for the World Team. In the spring of 2015 could Alaphilippe in the Ardennes - classics draw attention to himself by seventh in the Amstel Gold Race was as well as in the Walloon Arrow and Liege-Bastogne-Liege each finished second. In May 2015 he won the 7th stage of the California Tour , a mountain finish on Mount Baldy, thereby took over the overall lead and finally finished the tour in second overall.

In the 2016 season he repeated his second place in the Walloon Arrow and won the Tour of California . In the Olympic road race , he was fourth.

In 2017 he won his first race of the UCI World Tour with the individual time trial of the 4th stage from Paris-Nice . He finished fifth overall and won the points and junior ranking . At the subsequent classic Milan – Sanremo he came third in a sprint of a three-man breakaway group. In autumn he won a stage of the Vuelta a España , was tenth in the road race of the world championships and second in the Tour of Lombardy behind the solo winner Vincenzo Nibali .

In 2018, Alaphilippe won its first classic with La Flèche Wallonne . In the Tour de France he won two mountain stages as a soloist: the 10th stage to Le Grand-Bornand after a long escape and the 16th stage to Bagnères-de-Luchon after he fell seven kilometers from the finish in the downhill Adam Yates had overtaken. He won the dotted jersey with a record four victories in the hors categorie mountain classifications . In the second half of the season he won the Clásica San Sebastián in the sprint against Bauke Mollema as well as the overall rankings of the Tour of Britain and Tour of Slovakia stage races .

In spring 2019 Alaphilippe won the Strade Bianche , two stages from Tirreno-Adriatico and - after an initially unsuccessful attack on Poggio - in the sprint of the front field with Milan-Sanremo, his first " monument of cycling "; also a stage of the Basque Country Tour and again the Flèche Wallonne. In June he won a stage and the mountain classification of the Critérium du Dauphiné .

At the Tour de France 2019 he won the third stage after a solo ride over the last 15 kilometers and the individual time trial of the thirteenth stage . In addition, he led the overall standings of the three-week tour for fourteen days and finished fifth in the overall classification.