Arnaud Démare

Arnaud Démare

Démare at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Arnaud Démare
Born	(1991-08-26) 26 August 1991 Beauvais, France
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
Team information
Current team	FDJ
Discipline	Road
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
2008–2009	Team Wasquehal
2010–2011	CC Nogent-sur-Oise
2011	FDJ (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2012–	FDJ–BigMat
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2017) Stage races Four Days of Dunkirk (2013, 2014) Single-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2014, 2017) Milan–San Remo (2016) Vattenfall Cyclassics (2012) London–Surrey Classic (2013) Grand Prix de Denain (2013, 2017)
Medal record Representing  France Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2011 Copenhagen Under-23 road race

Arnaud Démare (born 26 August 1991) is a professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam FDJ.^[1] In 2011 he won the UCI World Under-23 Road Race Championships,^[2] and in 2016 he won the Milan–San Remo.

Career

2012 season

In August 2012, Demare won the first World Tour race of his career by prevailing in the Vattenfall Cyclassics, ahead of local favorite André Greipel and Giacomo Nizzolo.^[3] Démare clearly dominated the mass sprint contested in scorching heat at the end of the 245.6 km (152.6 mi) race.^[4]

2013 season

In 2013, Démare won 3 stages in a row at the Four Days of Dunkirk and the general classification.^[5] On the third stage, his team-mate and lead-out rider Geoffrey Soupe produced a final power surge to launch Démare, and the duo finished one-two in the mass sprint, with Ramon Sinkeldam of Argos–Shimano taking third place.^[6]

2014 season

Démare won the Four Days of Dunkirk stage race for the second year in succession, winning two stages during the event. He also won the points and young rider classifications.^[7] He also put in some strong performances in the cobbled classics, finishing second in Gent–Wevelgem and twelfth in Paris–Roubaix.^[8]

2015 season

Démare struggled for form for much of the 2015 season, only scoring one top ten finish in the spring classics with a tenth place in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. He did however manage to score two stage wins in the Tour of Belgium.^[8]

2016 season

In January 2016 Démare announced his race plans for the first half of the new season, starting his campaign on home soil at the Étoile de Bessèges and Tour Méditerranéen, followed by competing in the cobbled classics of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Milan–San Remo, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, along with the stage races Paris–Nice and the Three Days of De Panne.^[8] He also announced that he would skip the Tour de France and focus on the Giro d'Italia instead.^[9] He enjoyed success at the Tour Méditerranéen, where his FDJ squad won the race's opening team time trial and he won the following stage.^[10] Démare went on win the first full stage of Paris–Nice^[11] and then took the biggest win of his career at the Milan–San Remo. His victory was questioned by rival riders Matteo Tosatto and Eros Capecchi, who alleged that Démare had been assisted by a tow from a team car on the climb up the Cipressa after he crashed with 30 km to go. However, in the absence of any photographic or video evidence, race officials decided not to take any action.^[12]Démare became the first Frenchman to win the Milan-San Remo since Laurent Jalabert in 1995. He was also the first Frenchman to win a Monument race since 1997, when Jalabert and Frédéric Guesdon had won the Giro di Lombardia and Paris-Roubaix respectively.^[13]

2017 season

On July 4, two days after finishing Stage 2 in second position behind Marcel Kittel, Démare clinched his first Tour de France or Grand Tour stage win by winning the 2017 Tour de France's fourth stage that ended in a hectic sprint into Vittel; it was the first stage victory by a Frenchman in a bunch sprint since Jimmy Casper won Stage 1 that started and ended in Strasbourg in 2006.^[14] In Stage 6 , Démare was edged out again into a second-place finish by Marcel Kittel, who launched a perfectly timed late sprint with around 200 metres to go.^[15] Démare was ill during the mountainous Stage 8 and fell back very early. Two teammates were with him to try and bring him in within the time limit. He eventually finished in 188th position, 37 min 33 sec behind the stage winner.^[16]Démare, who was sitting in second position in the points classification at the start of the Stage 9, finished the challenging mountain stage in a group around 40 minutes behind the Stage 9 winner. That put him outside the time limit, and therefore out of the Tour de France, along with six other riders.^[17]

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Giro d'Italia	DNF	—	—	—	DNF	—
Tour de France	—	—	159	138	—	DNF
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arnaud Démare.

• Arnaud Démare at Cycling Archives
• Arnaud Démare profile at Cycling Quotient