Jérémy Roy

Jérémy Roy (born 22 June 1983) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2003 and 2018, spending his entire career with the team through its various team guises. He was named the most aggressive rider of the 2011 Tour de France after escaping into breakaways on many stages and continuously attacking from inside the breakaway.

Biography Born in Tours, Roy turned professional with in 2003. During his early career, he continued his studies at the French National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes, and graduated in 2007 in mechanical and automated engineering. Despite splitting his time between studying and cycling, Roy still finished 4th in the Tour de Picardie and won the young rider competition in 2006. Also in 2006, he finished 4th in the Châteauroux Classic de l'Indre, then 4th in the Grand Prix de Plumelec Morbihan in 2007 and 5th in the Route du Sud in 2008.

Roy gained his first professional victory on 12 March 2009, when he won stage 5 of Paris–Nice, beating his breakaway companion Thomas Voeckler in a sprint. The following year he won the Tro Bro Leon, performed well in the La Flèche Wallonne and finished third in the prologue of the Tour de Romandie.

He won his first race of 2011, the Grand Prix La Marseillaise Open in late January. He began the 2011 Tour de France by attacking on the 1st stage, and again on stage 4, winning the award for most combative rider for that stage. Roy came agonisingly close to winning stage 13, finishing third after being caught with 2.5 km to go, by Thor Hushovd and David Moncoutié, after a challenging pursuit in the final kilometres. He did, however, gain enough points to take the lead in the classification for the Polka Dot Jersey, and the combativity award once more. He also got in a break on the final stage and spent over 700 km of the race in breakaways.

Major results

2001 5th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships 2002 4th Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines 2003

2005 6th Tour du Doubs 6th Route Adélie 9th Tour de Vendée 10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 2006 4th Overall Tour de Picardie

4th Châteauroux Classic 2007 4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan 8th Cholet-Pays de Loire 9th Tour du Doubs 2008 5th Overall Route du Sud 7th Duo Normand (with Yoann Le Boulanger) 2009 1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice 2010 1st Tro-Bro Léon 2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux) 8th Chrono des Herbiers 10th Tour du Finistère 2011 1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux) Tour de France

2012 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin 1st Stage 4 2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 4th Chrono des Nations 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt 2013

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt 8th Chrono des Nations 2014 2nd Chrono des Nations 5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 2016 7th Chrono des Nations 8th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes

2017 7th Chrono des Nations 2018 3rd Duo Normand (with Bruno Armirail) 7th Chrono des Nations

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish