Matthieu Ladagnous

Matthieu Ladagnous (born 12 December 1984) is a French former road and track racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023, spending his entire career with UCI WorldTeam .

Riding entirely for the team and its succeeding iterations since his début in 2006, Ladagnous has taken eleven victories during his professional career, including victories in the 2007 Four Days of Dunkirk and 2009 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo stage races.

Career Born in Pau, Ladagnous became junior world champion at the madison in Melbourne, Australia in 2002 with his partner Tom Thiblier. In 2003 he won the French national title at the points race for the under-23 level. He also won a bronze medal at the individual sprint (under-23) and a silver medal at the madison with Fabien Patanchon in the elite class. Later that year he and Patanchon became European champions at the under-23 track cycling championships. A year later he won the bronze medal at the scratch in the 2003 under-23 championships. He improved his bronze national individual pursuit manager into a gold, while his points race gold was changed in a silver in 2004. In the elite class he won the madison gold, again alongside Patanchon.

In 2005 he first continued as a track cyclist and added another national under-23 silver to his palmarès at the individual pursuit. A silver medal in the elite class was added at the madison where he teamed up with Patanchon again. At the team pursuit he, Anthony Langella, Fabien Sanchez and Mickaël Mallie won the gold medal and became national elite champions. At the 2005 European championships in Fiorenzuola d'Arda he won a silver medal at the points race. In 2005 he also made his first road cycling appearance. He immediately won the prologue in the Mainfranken-Tour (under-23) and the overall classification. He decided to focus mainly at the road for the 2006 season, but won another team pursuit gold with Mickaël Delage, Jonathan Mouchel, Mikaël Preau and Sylvain Blanquefort. He booked his first road race win in 2006, when he won the fifth stage of the Tour Méditerranéen. The following year he won the fifth stage and the general classification of the Four Days of Dunkirk.

He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.

In January 2023, entering his eighteenth season as a professional – all with and its preceding iterations – Ladagnous announced that he would retire from the sport at the end of the year.

Personal life He is the brother of French rugby union international Caroline Ladagnous.

Major results Track

2002

2003

National Track Championships

2nd Madison 3rd Under-23 individual pursuit 2004 National Track Championships

2nd Points race

2005 National Track Championships

2nd Madison 2nd Under-23 individual pursuit

2nd UIV Cup, Rotterdam 2006

Road Source:

2005

1st Prologue 1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites 1st Stages 2a & 3 5th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher 9th Road race, Mediterranean Games 2006 1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen 6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan 6th Tour de Vendée 7th Le Samyn 2007

1st Stage 5 4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

2009

1st Stage 1 1st Polynormande 2nd Tour de Vendée 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var 4th Overall Tour de Wallonie 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 2010 2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges 2nd Cholet-Pays de Loire 4th Tour du Doubs 2011 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin 1st Stages 3 & 4 4th Tour du Doubs 5th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 7th Tro-Bro Léon 8th Polynormande 2012 5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan 6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 7th E3 Harelbeke 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2013 1st Boucles de l'Aulne 1st Stage 3 Tour du Limousin 5th Tour of Flanders 6th Gent–Wevelgem 6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan 8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie 2014 7th Tour de Vendée 2015 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var 5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan 2016 2nd Overall La Méditerranéenne 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan 6th Overall Tour de Picardie 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2018 7th Paris–Camembert 8th La Roue Tourangelle 8th Tour du Doubs 8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli 2020

2022 10th Tro-Bro Léon

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish