Jean-Christophe Péraud

Jean-Christophe Péraud

Peraud at the 2014 Tour de l'Ain
Personal information
Full name	Jean-Christophe Péraud
Born	(1977-05-22) 22 May 1977 Toulouse, France
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st)
Team information
Current team	AG2R La Mondiale
Discipline	Mountain bike and Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team(s)
1999–2005	SCO Dijon
2006–2009	Creusot Cycling
Professional team(s)
2010	Omega Pharma–Lotto
2011–	Ag2r–La Mondiale
Major wins
Stage races Critérium International (2014, 2015) Single-day races National Time Trial Championship (2009)
Medal record Competitor for  France Mountain bike racing Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Men's cross-country
Infobox last updated on 31 March 2014

Jean-Christophe Péraud (born 22 May 1977 in Toulouse) is a French cyclist and was a member of the French team at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Career

Competing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he won the silver medal in the cross-country race.^[1] In June 2009 he became the surprise winner of the French National Time Trial Championship.^[2] This led to him being signed by UCI ProTour team Omega Pharma–Lotto for the 2010 season, to increase its time-trialing presence in stage races.

Péraud currently rides for AG2R La Mondiale with whom he achieved second place in the 2011 Criterium International and ninth place overall in that year's Tour de France. He crashed out in the final week of the 2013 Tour de France during the time trial, falling in a slippery late-apex corner, in the same spot his family had gathered to cheer him on, with less than two kilometers to go, riding with a non-displaced fractured collarbone sustained in a prior crash the very same morning. Péraud had again been placed ninth on the general classification before the incident. According to cyclingnews.com, Péraud responded in a composed manner concerning the incident:^[3]

"I didn't feel that I was taking too many risks, I was descending as I know how but I was surprised by the corner. It's part of sport. I'm okay and it's only a broken collarbone. It will be a relief to get home, and we'll think about my next objective when my body recovers.”

In 2014, Péraud won the Critérium International in March. He also recorded top-five finishes in the Tirreno-Adriatico, Volta ao Algarve, and Tour of the Basque Country.^[4] Péraud followed this up with a strong performance in the 2014 Tour de France, where he finished in second place overall. He and Thibaut Pinot became the first Frenchmen to make the podium of the Tour de France since 1997.

In 2015, Péraud repeated his victory on the 2.HC Critérium International by winning the last stage finishing atop the Col de l'Ospedale. He won the general classification with a gap of ten seconds to fellow Frenchman Thibaut Pinot. “At the start, I thought that I would help [teammate] Alexis Vuillermoz. But I attacked and I found myself alone,” said Péraud. “This victory is important after hard times and two surgeries this winter.”^[5]

Palmares

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Giro	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour	-	9	44	WD	2	61
Vuelta	39	-	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

Other major stage races

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean-Christophe Péraud.

• Official website
• Jean-Christophe Péraud at Sports Reference
• Jean-Christophe Péraud profile at Cycling Archives
• Jean-Christophe Péraud profile at Cycling Quotient
• Jean-Christophe Péraud profile at ProCyclingStats