Nacer Bouhanni

Nacer Bouhanni (born 25 July 1990) is a French former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2023. A sprinter, he was the winner of the 2012 French National Road Race Championships. Although his first Grand Tour was in 2012, his real breakthrough was in 2014 when he won three stages and the points classification in the Giro d'Italia. In August 2014 it was announced that Bouhanni would leave FDJ and join on an initial two-year deal from 2015. In the Vuelta a España, Bouhanni won two mass sprints, Stages 2 and 8. The latter saw a battle occur in the crosswinds and Bouhanni managed to stay with the first group on the road to win the sprint ahead of Michael Matthews and Peter Sagan. After withdrawing from the Vuelta, Bouhanni gave an interview where he was critical of the FDJ management. As a response, Marc Madiot sidelined him for the remainder of the season, at the end of which Bouhanni left the team for .

Cofidis (2015–19) He had to wait until April 2015 to get his first victory for his new team on the opening stage of the Circuit de la Sarthe in a bunch sprint as the breakaway was caught inside the final kilometre. He also won the last stage of the event. A little later on that month, he won the Grand Prix de Denain for the second year in a row. He won his team's first UCI World Tour race of the season on stage 2 of the Critérium du Dauphiné in a bunch sprint. He added a win on Stage 4 after a hectic finale which saw a flurry of attacks. Bouhanni was forced to withdraw from the 2015 Tour de France after a crash at the mark of Stage 5.

In 2016, Bouhanni won stage 1 of the Volta a Catalunya and took the leader's jersey. Bouhanni had to withdraw from the French National Road Race Championships due to a hand injury sustained in an altercation with fellow guests at a hotel the night before the race. The injury also caused him to withdraw from the Tour de France. On 21 August, Bouhanni initially won the EuroEyes Cyclassics but he was later relegated for irregular sprinting.

Arkéa–Samsic In October 2019, Bouhanni signed for the team.

Incidents Bouhanni was penalised one minute time for hitting another rider, Jack Bauer, in the 2017 Tour de France. The race jury also levied a fine of 200 Swiss francs. Bouhanni was also investigated after contact with Anthony Maldonado at the end of a stage in the Tour de l'Ain in August. The race jury decided to take no action. Later in 2017, after the Paris–Bourges race, Bouhanni had to be separated from Rudy Barbier, who had won the race. Bouhanni subsequently apologised for his behaviour, but maintained that Barbier had ridden dangerously and irregularly in the finishing sprint. In May 2018, French sports newspaper L'Équipe reported that Bouhanni had been involved in a "violent altercation" with Cofidis directeur sportif Roberto Damiani on the team's bus following the Eschborn–Frankfurt race, which Bouhanni did not finish.

In the 2021 Cholet-Pays de la Loire, Bouhanni initially finished third, but was disqualified by the race jury for an aggressive manoeuvre in the final sprint. Bouhanni started his sprint behind his leadout man, and as he began to accelerate up to speed, he veered to his left to try and get onto the wheel of eventual winner Elia Viviani. In doing so, Bouhanni pinned Jake Stewart against the barriers. Though Stewart was able to stay upright and avoid causing a crash, the contact from Bouhanni sapped his momentum and he ended up finishing 29th. After the race, Stewart and other fellow sprinters took to social media to criticise Bouhanni and call for his suspension, drawing similarities between Bouhanni's actions and those of Dylan Groenewegen at the 2020 Tour de Pologne, which caused Fabio Jakobsen to crash and sustain heavy injuries. On 12 May 2021, for his 'dangerous conduct,' the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) handed Bouhanni a retroactive two-month suspension, expiring on 7 June 2021.

Major results

2010 5th Overall Tour de Gironde 1st Stage 2 2011 1st Stage 3 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 5th Grand Prix de la Somme 8th Grand Prix de Denain 8th Paris–Troyes 2012

1st Stage 1 1st Halle–Ingooigem 1st Stage 1 Étoile de Bessèges 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie 2nd Flèche d'Emeraude 2nd Paris–Bourges 6th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole 1st Stage 4 9th Cholet-Pays de Loire 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie 2013 1st Val d'Ille Classic 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Tour de Vendée Tour of Beijing

1st Stages 2 & 3 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 6 Tour of Oman 1st Stage 2 Circuit de la Sarthe 2nd Omloop van het Houtland 3rd Grand Prix de Denain 3rd Halle–Ingooigem 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic 8th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 2014 1st Grand Prix de Denain Giro d'Italia

1st Azzurri d'Italia classification 1st Stages 4, 7 & 10 Vuelta a España 1st Stages 2 & 8

Circuit de la Sarthe

1st Stage 1 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 4 Eneco Tour 1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges 1st Stage 1 Critérium International 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Le Samyn 3rd Nokere Koerse 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 2015 1st UCI Europe Tour 1st French Road Cycling Cup 1st Halle–Ingooigem 1st Circuito de Getxo 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues 1st Grand Prix de Denain 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Stages 2 & 4 Circuit de la Sarthe

1st Stages 1 & 4 Tour de l'Ain

1st Stages 1 & 2 2nd Paris–Bourges 2nd Route Adélie 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies 4th Trofeo Santanyi–Ses Salines–Campos 6th Milan–San Remo 9th Polynormande 2016

1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Tour de Vendée Volta a Catalunya 1st Stages 1 & 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes 1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Andalucía 2nd Trofeo Playa de Palma 2nd Grand Prix de la Somme 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic 4th Milan–San Remo 5th Clásica de Almería 7th Paris–Tours 2017 1st UCI Europe Tour 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Nokere Koerse 1st Paris–Camembert 1st Stage 4 Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 2 Tour de Yorkshire 1st Stage 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Grand Prix de Denain 3rd Scheldeprijs 3rd Trofeo Playa de Palma 4th La Roue Tourangelle 7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 8th Milan–San Remo 8th Bretagne Classic 9th EuroEyes Cyclassics 2018 1st Grote Prijs Marcel Kint Boucles de la Mayenne

1st Stages 2 & 3 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España 1st Stage 1 Route d'Occitanie 1st Stage 3 Four Days of Dunkirk 2nd Ronde van Limburg 6th Overall Dubai Tour 2019 2nd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint 4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 5th La Roue Tourangelle 6th Elfstedenronde 7th Heistse Pijl 7th Cholet-Pays de Loire 2020 1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues 1st Paris–Chauny 1st Stage 1 Tour de la Provence 2nd Overall Saudi Tour

1st Stage 4 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic 3rd Paris–Camembert 6th Milano–Torino 8th Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines 2021 2nd La Roue Tourangelle 2nd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 4th Paris–Chauny 6th Eurométropole Tour 2022 1st La Roue Tourangelle 2nd Milano–Torino 2nd Clásica de Almería 3rd Classic Brugge–De Panne 2023 6th Milano–Torino

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classic results timeline Monument 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Milan–San Remo — — —648 — 62 38 19 27 Tour of FlandersHas not contested during his career Paris–Roubaix Liège–Bastogne–Liège Giro di Lombardia Classic 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne —NH — 183 33 — DNF — — — Milano–Torino — — — — — — — —6 —2 Gent–Wevelgem — — — DNF DNF — — — — — — Scheldeprijs — — — — —3 — — 11 DNF DNF Hamburg Cyclassics — — — — 279 — —Not held — Bretagne Classic — — — — DNF8 — — — — — Paris–Tours 16 — — 427 22 — — 18 —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish IP In progress NH Not held

Personal life Bouhanni has a son with his partner, actress Hafsia Herzi.