Blel Kadri

Blel Kadri
Personal information
Kadri at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
Full name	Blel Kadri
Born	(1986-09-03) 3 September 1986 Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team	Ag2r-La Mondiale
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
2008	Ag2r-La Mondiale (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2009–	Ag2r-La Mondiale
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 stage (2014) One-day races and Classics Roma Maxima (2013)
Infobox last updated on 23 July 2013

Blel Kadri (born 3 September 1986) is a French professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Ag2r-La Mondiale. He is of Algerian descent.^[1] In March 2013, Kadri won the Roma Maxima, a newly revived race formerly known as the Giro del Lazio. He was part of the early breakaway which formed after the first hour of racing, and shook off his fellow escapees until he was alone with 40 km (24.9 mi) to go. He managed to resist to the peloton's onslaught and triumphed in Rome.^[2] On 12 July 2014, he achieved his biggest success, winning his first stage victory in the Tour de France. Also on this stage he won the Most Combative Rider award for the second time during the 2014 Tour de France and held the King of the Mountains jersey. Shortly after the stage, whilst receiving treatment from his Soigneur, Kadri received a text message of congratulations from the President of France, Francois Hollande. The text was followed by a call from a withheld number, again it was the President to offer his congratulations.