Kévin Réza

Kévin Réza
	Kévin Réza (2015)
To person
Date of birth	May 18, 1988
nation	France
discipline	Road / train
Driver type	Sprinter (road) / endurance (rail)
height	186 cm
Racing weight	72 kg
To the team
Current team	B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
function	driver
	Last updated: February 15, 2018

Kévin Réza (born May 18, 1988 ) is a French cyclist .

Career

In 2005, Kévin Réza was third on the track at the French championship in the Madison junior class. In 2011 he also won the bronze medal in the elite in the same discipline.

On the road , Réza won three stages of the Tour de Martinique in 2009 and finished eighth in the overall standings. After working as a stagiaire at Bbox Bouygues Télécom at the end of the 2010 season , he received a regular contract there from the next season. For this team he contested the Tour de France 2013 and finished his first Grand Tour in 134th place. In the mass sprint of the third stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in 2014, he finished second.

For the 2015 season, Réza switched to the FDJ team . In sprint finals of the Vuelta a España in 2015 and 2016 , he was third in each stage. He also came third in the sprint in the one-day race Paris – Camembert 2017 .

The dark-skinned Réza was racially insulted by Gianni Moscon at the Tour de Romandie 2017 . A comparable incident is said to have occurred during the 2014 Tour de France , when Michael Albasini is said to have insulted him as a “dirty negro”. Albasini's team management announced that both drivers had spoken out and "cleared up the misunderstanding".

successes

2009

three stages Tour de Martinique

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Giro d'Italia	-	-	103	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	134	73	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	113	DNF	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Kévin Réza - collection of images, videos and audio files

Kévin Réza in the Radsportseiten.net database

Kévin Réza in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

↑ Moscon: Racist insult against Reza. In: radsport-news.com. April 30, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
↑ Albasini is said to have racially insulted Reza. In: radsport-news.com. July 23, 2014, accessed September 10, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Réza, Kévin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1988

[radsport-103465-1] Moscon: Racist insult against Reza. In: radsport-news.com. April 30, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .

[radsport-88796-2] Albasini is said to have racially insulted Reza. In: radsport-news.com. July 23, 2014, accessed September 10, 2017 .