Jérémy Roy

Jérémy Roy

Personal information
Full name	Jérémy Roy
Born	June 22, 1983 (1983-06-22) (age 28) Tours, France
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	FDJ
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2003–	FDJ
Major wins
Paris–Nice, 1 stage Tour de France Super Combativity award (2011)
Infobox last updated on July 23, 2011

Jérémy Roy (born June 22, 1983 in Tours) is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team FDJ. He was named the most aggressive rider of the 2011 Tour de France after escaping into breakaways on many stages and continuiously attacking from inside the breakaway.

Biography

Roy turned professional with FDJ in 2004. 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 Fleche 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 combatative 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.

Palmarès

2003

2nd European U23 Road Race Championship

2006

1st Young Riders's Competition, Tour de Picardie

2009

1st Stage 5, Paris–Nice

2010

1st Tro-Bro Léon

2011

1st GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

2011 Tour de France

3rd Stage 13

Held King of the Mountains Jersey, Stage 13

Combativity award Stages 4 and 13

Super Combativity award

External links

• Jérémy Roy at Trap-Friis.dk

Persondata
Name	Roy, Jérémy
Alternative names
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1983-06-22
Place of birth	Tours, France
Date of death
Place of death