Pierre Rolland

Pierre Rolland
	Pierre Rolland (2011)
To person
Date of birth	10th October 1986 (age 33)
nation	France
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
To the team
Current team	B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
function	driver
Team (s)
2006 ; 2007–2008 ; 2009–2015 ; 2016–2018 ; 2019–	Crédit Agricole ( Stagiaire ) ; Crédit Agricole ; Bbox Bouygues Telecom / Team Europcar ; EF Education First ; Vital Concept Cycling Club
Most important successes
	Grand Tours Young talent Tour de France 2011 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2017
	Last updated: June 9, 2018

Pierre Rolland (born October 10, 1986 in Gien ) is a French cyclist and two-time stage winner of the Tour de France .

Career

Pierre Rolland drove at the end of the 2006 season with the French UCI ProTeam Crédit Agricole as a trainee and received a professional contract there the following year. He as one of the French cycling hopes for the future and confirmed his qualities as a climber by winning the mountain classification Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 2008 .

At the beginning of the 2009 season, after the breakup of the Crédit Agricole team, Rolland moved to the French ProTeam Bbox Bouygues Télécom , which was later called Team Europcar . During the 2011 Tour de France , Rolland supported team captain Thomas Voeckler in defending the yellow jersey . He himself won the 19th stage to L'Alpe d'Huez , finished the tour in tenth and won the white jersey of the best young driver. In the 2012 Tour de France , Rolland won the 11th stage to La Toussuire after he had pulled away from an early-formed leading group eleven kilometers before the mountain finish and was in the end eighth overall. His best placement on a Grand Tour to date was fourth in the Giro d'Italia 2014 .

At the Critérium du Dauphiné 2013, Rolland and his team were criticized because a suspicious cortisone value was measured during a health check of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC) , which can be an indication of doping or health problems and according to the voluntary rules of the MPCC teams self-suspension for eight days. In 2013 Pierre Rolland won the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe and in 2015 the Vuelta a Castilla y León . In 2017 he won the 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia .