.JPG) Pichon in 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Laurent Pichon |
| Born | (1986-07-19) 19 July 1986 (age 38) Quimper, France |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncheur |
| Professional teams | |
| 2010–2012 | Bretagne–Schuller |
| 2013–2016 | FDJ |
| 2017–2023 | Fortuneo–Vital Concept |
Laurent Pichon (born 19 July 1986) is a French former racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. He was the winner of the 2017 French Road Cycling Cup.
Pichon was born in Finistère. Thrice has he placed in the top 10 at the Tro-Bro Léon, each time earning himself a piglet. The piglets, won in 2016, 2017, and 2022; and named Ty Pich, Ty Pich 2, and Pitchounette; were made into sausages and eaten by Pichon.
Major results
- 2009
- 10th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 2010
- 1st
Scratch race, National Track Championships - 1st Stage 7 Tour de Normandie
- 2nd Route Adélie
- 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 4th Val d'Ille Classic
- 6th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 8th Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 8th Paris–Bourges
- 10th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 2011
- 1st
Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites - 2nd Overall Circuit des Ardennes
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 4th Tour de Vendée
- 5th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 5th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt
- 8th Flèche d'Emeraude
- 9th Route Adélie
- 10th Paris–Troyes
- 2012
- 1st
Overall Boucles de la Mayenne - 2nd Route Adélie
- 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 5th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
- 5th Paris–Tours
- 6th Tour de Vendée
- 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2013
- 3rd Classic Loire Atlantique
- 4th Tour de Vendée
- 8th Val d'Ille Classic
- 9th Route Adélie
- 10th Paris–Camembert
- 2014
- 3rd Paris–Camembert
- 5th Tour de Vendée
- 7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 2015
- 3rd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 9th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 2016
- 4th Tro-Bro Léon
- 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- Vuelta a España
- Held
after Stage 2 - Held after Stage 2
- Held
- 2017 (3 pro wins)
- 1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup
- 1st Route Adélie
- 1st Classic Loire Atlantique
- 1st Stage 1a Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 3rd Polynormande
- 3rd Boucles de l'Aulne
- 4th Tro-Bro Léon
- 7th Paris–Camembert
- 7th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 9th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2018
- 6th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
- 10th Paris–Camembert
Combativity award Stage 7 Tour de France- 2019
- 5th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 2020
- 4th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
- 2021
- 4th Boucles de l'Aulne
- 2022
- 7th Tro-Bro Léon
- 8th Paris–Roubaix
- 2023
- 7th Tro-Bro Léon
Combativity award Stage 3 Tour de France
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
163 | 129 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France
|
— | — | — | — | 125 | 98 | — | — | — | — | 124 |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — | 111 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- "Arkéa-Samsic". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- "Franck Bonnamour et Romain Le Roux avec Arkéa-Samsic en 2020" [Franck Bonnamour and Romain Le Roux with Arkéa-Samsic in 2020]. Arkéa–Samsic (in French). Pro Cycling Breizh. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- "Team Arkea - Samsic". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- "2017: 104th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- Davidson, Tom (4 May 2023). "'I've won three pigs… They've been made into sausages' - Tro-Bro Léon and cycling's oddest prize". Cycling Weekly.
External links
- Laurent Pichon at UCI
- Laurent Pichon at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Laurent Pichon at ProCyclingStats
- Laurent Pichon at Cycling Quotient
- Laurent Pichon at CycleBase