French cyclist

Bryan Coquard (born 25 April 1992) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis. He was a silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Omnium.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Youth and amateur career
  • 1.2 Team Europcar
  • 1.3 Vital Concept
  • 1.4 Cofidis
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Track
  • 2.2 Road
    • 2.2.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Youth and amateur career

Coquard began cycling in 1999 at the age of seven, at the US Pontchâteau club. In September 2008, aged sixteen, he joined CREPS Bordeaux, where he was coached by Éric Vermeulen.

In 2009, Coquard won the gold medal in the omnium at the UCI Juniors World Championships, as well as winning the scratch at the European championships. He retained his Junior Omnium crown in 2010, winning four of the six events, he also finished second in the Scratch Race. Due to his track success, in June 2011 Coquard signed a contract with Team Europcar for the start of the 2013 professional road season. Later that month, he became the omnium champion of France, winning 5 of the 6 races. Following this, he was selected to represent France in the omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal finishing behind L*e Norman Hansen of Denmark.

Team Europcar

Coquard signed a contract for a professional career on the roads from the 2013 season onwards, signing with Team Europcar. His 2013 campaign began well, as he took two stages in the Étoile de Bessèges in January and February. In 2015, Coquard won the first stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk. The stage featured cobbled sectors, fracturing the peloton to bits, and Coquard won the sprint of a small group of three.

Bryan Coquard began the 2016 season with two victories in the first and second stages of the Étoile de Bessèges. However, on 16 February, in preparation for the Vuelta a Andalucía, he fractured his right shoulder blade. He returned a month later in time for the cl*ics season, having missed his first objective of the year, Paris–Nice. He started off well finishing 2nd behind Jens Debusschere in a small bunch sprint at Dwars door Vlaanderen. After a stage win at the Circuit de la Sarthe, his form continued into the hilly cl*ics of Brabantse Pijl and the Amstel Gold Race finishing fourth in both. In May, he won his first professional stage race at the Four Days of Dunkirk while also winning three stages in the process. The following month, he won his first race against the clock during the prologue of the Boucles de la Mayenne, as well as winning the next stage. In his build up to the Tour de France, he beat Arnaud Démare in the first two stages of the Route du Sud.

Vital Concept

In August 2017 it was confirmed that Coquard had signed for the newly formed Vital Concept team, as team leader for 2018, shortly after Coquard was excluded from the Direct Énergie Tour de France team. Coquard was also offered a place on the Quick-Step Floors team, but turned it down as he felt he would be put as 2nd sprinter behind Fernando Gaviria

Coquard made his debut for Vital Concept in January 2018 at the Sharjah International Cycling Tour. He took his first victory in February at stage 1 of the Tour of Oman where he won a sprint finish ahead of Mark Cavendish. Earlier in the month Coquard narrowly missed out on victory at the Étoile de Bessèges, when Christophe Laporte p*ed him out at the finish line while Coquard was celebrating the victory he had thought he had won.

Cofidis

In August 2021, Coquard signed a two-year contract with Cofidis, from the 2022 season.

Major results

Track

20091st Omnium, UCI Junior World ChampionshipsUEC European Junior Championships1st Scratch3rd Team pursuit2010UCI Junior World Championships1st Omnium2nd ScratchUEC European Junior Championships3rd Madison3rd Scratch3rd Team pursuitNational Junior Championships1st Individual pursuit2nd Madison2nd Omnium, National Championships2011National Championships1st Team pursuit1st Scratch2nd Madison (with Morgan Lamoisson)2nd Omnium, UEC European Championships2012National Championships1st Omnium1st Madison (with Morgan Lamoisson)3rd Scratch2nd Omnium, Olympic GamesUEC European Under-23 Championships2nd Omnium2nd Points race2nd Six Days of Grenoble (with Morgan Kneisky)2013UEC European Under-23 Championships1st Madison (with Thomas Boudat)2nd Scratch2nd Team pursuit20151st Madison (with Morgan Kneisky), UCI World Championships1st Elimination race, UEC European ChampionshipsNational Championships1st Madison (with Thomas Boudat)1st Team pursuit2nd Omnium2019UEC European Track Championships1st Points race2nd Elimination race

Road

20102nd Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships20121st Grand Prix Cristal Energie1st Stage 5 Tour de Berlin2nd Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships20131st Châteauroux Cl*icÉtoile de Bessèges1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 2 & 4Tour de Langkawi1st Stages 8 & 92nd Overall French Road Cycling Cup1st Young rider cl*ification2nd Overall Tour de Picardie1st Stage 22nd Val d'Ille Cl*ic2nd Grand Prix de Denain3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies5th Paris–Camembert5th Boucles de l'Aulne6th Tour de Vendée8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues20141st Route Adélie1st Paris–CamembertÉtoile de Bessèges1st Stages 3 & 43rd Overall Tour de Picardie1st Stage 12015Route du Sud1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 2 & 41st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk1st Points cl*ification1st Young rider cl*ification1st Stage 14th Overall Tour de Picardie4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan4th Brussels Cycling Cl*ic5th Trofeo Playa de Palma5th Grand Prix de la Somme9th Trofeo Santanyi-Ses Salines-Campos10th Grand Prix de Denain20161st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk1st Points cl*ification1st Young rider cl*ification1st Stages 1, 2 & 31st Overall Boucles de la Mayenne1st Points cl*ification1st Prologue & Stage 21st Route AdélieÉtoile de Bessèges1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 1 & 2Route du Sud1st Stages 1 & 21st Stage 2a Circuit de la Sarthe2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies3rd Tour de Vendée4th Brabantse Pijl4th Clásica de Almería4th Amstel Gold Race5th Paris–Tours6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues2017Circuit de la Sarthe1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 2a & 41st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucía1st Stage 5 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium20181st Stage 1 Tour of Oman1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk2nd Paris–Bourges7th Overall Sharjah International Cycling Tour7th Overall Tour of Belgium1st Stage 520191st Grand Prix Pino Cerami1st Grote Prijs Marcel Kint1st Points cl*ification Tour de WallonieCircuit de la Sarthe1st Points cl*ification1st Stage 21st Stage 1 Étoile de Bessèges1st Stage 2 Arctic Race of Norway1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk2nd Cholet-Pays de la Loire3rd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne1st Stage 33rd Tour de Vendée5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues6th La Roue Tourangelle7th Overall Tour of Belgium1st Stage 58th Paris–Chauny20201st Stage 1 Route d'Occitanie2nd Road race, National Road Championships3rd Scheldeprijs20212nd Grand Prix du Morbihan3rd Grand Prix La Marseillaise4th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne5th Paris–Bourges6th Paris–Tours20221st Stage 2 Tour de la Provence1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges2nd La Roue Tourangelle6th Grand Prix La Marseillaise

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Bryan Coquard at Cycling Archives
• Bryan Coquard at ProCyclingStats
• Bryan Coquard at Cycling Quotient
• Bryan Coquard at CycleBase
• Bryan Coquard at Olympics.com
• Bryan Coquard at Olympedia
• Bryan Coquard at the French Olympic Committee (in French)