Nicolas Portal
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| Nicolas Portal (2010) | |
| To person | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | April 23, 1979 |
| date of death | March 3, 2020 |
| nation |
 France
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| Team (s) | |
| 2002–2005 2006–2009 2010 |
Ag2r Prévoyance Caisse d'Epargne Sky Professional Cycling Team |
| Most important successes | |
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a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré |
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| Team (s) as sporting director | |
| 2013-2020 | Team Ineos |
Nicolas Portal (born April 23, 1979 in Auch , France ; † March 3, 2020 in Andorra la Vella ) was a French sports director and racing cyclist .
Career
2001 drove Portal at AG2R Prévoyance as a trainee and was awarded the following year there a professional contract. With this team he achieved his greatest career success with a stage win at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2004. From 2006 to 2009 he drove for the Spanish ProTeam Caisse d'Epargne . Portal took part in the Tour de France six times , which he was able to finish each time.
At the end of the 2010 season he ended his career as a professional cyclist due to heart problems and then became sports director at Team Sky , for which he had ridden in his last season. In this role he was involved in the tour victories of Chris Froome in 2013 , 2015 and 2016 and 2017 as well as in the tour victories of Geraint Thomas in 2018 and Egan Bernal in 2019 .
In March 2020, Portal died of a heart attack at the age of 40 .
successes
2004
- a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
2005
- a stage Vuelta a Castilla y León
2007
- Team time trial Tour of Catalonia
Grand Tour placements
| Grand Tour | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
 Tour de France
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- | 82 | 72 | 88 | 100 | 57 | 66 | - | - |
 Vuelta a España
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84 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Nicolas Portal in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Nicolas Portal in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Nicolas Portal in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicolas Portal. Team Sky, archived from the original on November 22, 2015 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Sam Dansie: The Guiding Star . In: Procycling , German edition . October, 2016, p. 51 ff .
- ↑ Nicolas Portal is dead. In: radsport-news.com. March 3, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Portal, Nicolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Also , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 2020 |
| Place of death | Andorra |