Johan Le Bon

Johan Le Bon (born 3 October 1990) is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for French amateur team Dinan Sport Cycling.

Career Riding as a junior in 2008, Johan Le Bon became European Champion and World Champion within the space of a month. He also won the bronze medal at the European Time Trial Championships that year.

One year later, he joined professional cycling team . The 2010 edition of the Route bretonne gave him his first professional victory. He also won the third stage of the Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay, a race he won the previous year as an amateur, and the third stage of Kreiz Breizh Elites, becoming overall winner of the latter.

In both 2011 and 2012 Johan Le Bon emerged as French Under-23 Time Trial Champion.

In 2013 Le Bon moved to World Tour team . In the important three-day stage races of West Flanders and De Panne, Le Bon came in fifth and fourth, respectively. He gained his first podium spot with FDJ by finishing second in the Tro-Bro Léon. Later that year, Le Bon debuted in a Grand Tour when he took part in the Giro d'Italia.

In 2014, he participated in the Paris–Roubaix and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad cycling classics. He again took part in the Giro d'Italia, and also finished the Vuelta a España.

His biggest victory at the time came in 2015, when he won the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour.

Major results

2007 1st Stage 2 Ronde des vallées 2008 UCI Juniors World Championships

5th Time trial UEC European Junior Road Championships

3rd Time trial

1st Prologue

1st Classique des Alpes Juniors 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 2009

1st Étoile de Tressignaux 1st Stage 2 Classic Loire Atlantique 7th Flèche Ardennaise 2010

1st Stage 3 1st Route bretonne 1st Stage 3 Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 3rd Overall Paris–Corrèze 2011

2nd Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines 5th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 7th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships 2012

2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 1st Stage 2 4th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites 6th Overall Tour de Normandie 1st Young rider classification 2013 2nd Tro-Bro Léon 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne 5th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 5th Chrono des Nations 2014 3rd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 2015 1st Stage 5 Eneco Tour 3rd Chrono des Nations 8th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole 9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 1st Prologue 9th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2016 3rd Duo Normand (with Marc Fournier) 4th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 5th Tro-Bro Léon 5th Chrono des Nations 10th Overall Three Days of De Panne 2017 1st Prologue Tour de l'Ain 2nd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 1st Prologue & Stage 1 2nd Polynormande 2018 9th Ronde van Drenthe 9th Chrono des Nations 10th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 2020 1st Malaysian International Classic Race 2021 1st Stage 2 Kreiz Breizh Elites 6th Overall Tour de Bretagne 2022

1st Stages 2 & 7

Grand Tour general classification results timeline