Bryan Coquard

Bryan Coquard

Coquard at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Born	(1992-04-25) 25 April 1992 Saint-Nazaire, France
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Team information
Current team	Direct Énergie
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter (road) Endurance (track)
Amateur team(s)
2010	US Pontchâtelaine
2011–2012	Vendée U
Professional team(s)
2013–	Team Europcar
Major wins
Stage races Four Days of Dunkirk (2016)
Medal record Representing  France Track cycling Olympic Games 2012 London Omnium World Championships 2015 Yvelines Madison European Championships 2015 Grenchen Elimination race 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium Road bicycle racing World Championships 2012 Valkenburg Under-23 road race

Bryan Coquard (born 25 April 1992) is a French cyclist. He was a silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Omnium.^[1]

Career

Youth and amateur

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 Eric Vermeulen.

In 2009, Coquard became World Junior Omnium Champion, as well as winning the Scratch Race 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 Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark.

Professional

Coquard signed a contract for a professional career on the roads from the 2013 season onwards, signing with Team Europcar.^[2] His 2013 campaign began well, as he took two stages in the Étoile de Bessèges in January and February.^[3] 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.^[4]

Bryan Coquard began the 2016 season with two victories in the first and second stages of the Etoile de Bessèges. However, on the 16th February, in preparation for the Tour of Andalusia, he fractured his right shoulder blade. He returned a month later in time for the classics 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 the Circuit de la Sarthe, his form continued into the hilly classics 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.

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2014	2015	2016
Giro	—	—	—
Tour	104	110	113
Vuelta	—	—	—

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

References

External links

• Bryan Coquard profile at Cycling Archives

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's madison
1995: Italy (Silvio Martinello, Marco Villa) 1996: Italy (Silvio Martinello, Marco Villa) 1997: Spain (Joan Llaneras, Miquel Alzamora) 1998: Belgium (Etienne De Wilde, Matthew Gilmore) 1999: Spain (Joan Llaneras, Isaac Gálvez) 2000: Germany (Stefan Steinweg, Erik Weispfennig) 2001: France (Robert Sassone, Jérôme Neuville) 2002: France (Jérôme Neuville, Franck Perque) 2003: Switzerland (Franco Marvulli, Bruno Risi) 2004: Argentina (Walter Pérez, Juan Curuchet) 2005: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Rob Hayles) 2006: Spain (Isaac Gálvez, Joan Llaneras) 2007: Switzerland (Bruno Risi, Franco Marvulli) 2008: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins) 2009: Denmark (Michael Mørkøv, Alex Rasmussen) 2010: Australia (Leigh Howard, Cameron Meyer) 2011: Australia (Leigh Howard, Cameron Meyer) 2012: Belgium (Kenny De Ketele, Gijs Van Hoecke) 2013: France (Vivien Brisse, Morgan Kneisky) 2014: Spain (David Muntaner, Albert Torres) 2015: France (Bryan Coquard, Morgan Kneisky) 2016: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins)