Maxime Monfort

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Maxime Montfort Road cycling
Maxime Montfort (2008)
Maxime Montfort (2008)
To person
Date of birth January 14, 1983
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Lotto Soudal
function Sports director
Team (s)
2004–2005
2006–2008
2009–2010
2011–2013
2014–2019
Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone
Columbia-High Road / HTC-Columbia
Leopard Trek / RadioShack
Lotto
Team (s) as sporting director
2020 Lotto Soudal
Last updated: October 6, 2019

Maxime Monfort (born January 14, 1983 in Bastogne ) is a Belgian sporting director in road cycling and a former cyclist .

As a cyclist, Monfort took part in one of the Grand Tours 20 times , including seven times in the Tour de France , five times in the Giro d'Italia and eight times in the Vuelta a España . He finished nineteen times a major tour of the country, including from the Tour de France 2011 to the Giro d'Italia 2017 in the top 30 twelve times in a row. His best Grand Tour placement was sixth at the Vuelta a España 2011 . He was considered a versatile helper .

Career

Monfort began his professional career in 2004 with the Belgian cycling team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago , after having been a stagiaire there the previous year . In the very first year he celebrated his first tour success : He won the third stage of the Tour of Luxembourg and was first in the overall classification.

Monfort had his first contract with a ProTeam from 2006 to 2008 with the French team Cofidis . He competed in the 2006 Giro d'Italia and finished his first Grand Tour in 33rd position. When he first took part in the Vuelta a España in 2007, he was eleventh overall. In 2008 he competed for the first time in the Tour de France , which he finished in 23rd place. He took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics and finished 26th in the individual time trial .

For the 2009 season Monfort moved to the Columbia-High Road team and he became Belgian champion in the individual time trial. He won the 2010 Bayern Tour for this team .

From 2011 to 2013 Monfort was under contract with the Leopard Trek team . At the 2011 Tour de France he was part of the team led by the Luxembourg brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck , who led the team as captains and finished second and third in the overall standings. He himself was 29th overall. At the subsequent Vuelta a España , Monfort achieved his first top ten placement in one of the three tours with sixth place. He finished the 2012 Tour de France in 16th place, his best position in the Tour de France to date. At the Vuelta a España 2012 he was also 16th. His best Tour de France placement was 14th in 2013 .

For the 2014 season Monfort switched to the Lotto Belisol team . He finished the Giro d'Italia 2014 in 14th place and the Vuelta a España 2014 in 16th place. He finished the Giro d'Italia 2015 in eleventh place, which was his best career position in this race. At the Vuelta a España 2015 he finished 27th overall, and was third on the 19th stage, which was his first individual podium finish in a stage of the three major tours. At the Giro d'Italia 2016 he was 15 and at the Vuelta a España 2016 16. In the 2017 season he was 13th of the Giro d'Italia and had to give up the Vuelta a España 2017 due to a febrile illness before the 18th stage. This was the first time that he could not finish one of the three great tours. He finished the Vuelta a España 2018 in 42nd place. Monfort did his last Tour de France in 2019 and finished 142.

Monfort contested his last bike race of his career with the Famenne Ardenne Classic on October 6, 2019 and switched to the sporting management of his Lotto Soudal team with immediate effect.

successes

2004

  • Overall ranking and one stage of the Tour of Luxembourg

2009

2010

2011

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 33 - - - - - - - 14th 11 15th 13 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 23 28 55 29 16 14th - - - - - 142
Red jersey Vuelta a España - 11 - - - 6th 16 - 16 27 16 DNF 42 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Maxime Monfort  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Monfort gives his farewell performance at Ardenne Classic. In: radsport-news.com. October 6, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  2. List of eliminated riders / 21st stage. In: radsport-news.com. September 10, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .