Nicolas Edet
Edet in 2020
Personal information
Full nameNicolas Edet
Born (1987-12-02) 2 December 1987 (age 36)
La Ferté-Bernard, France
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur teams
2007Centre
2008Pays de la Loire
2008–2010Team Agem 72
2010Cofidis (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2011–2021Cofidis[1][2][3]
2022–2023Arkéa–Samsic
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
Mountains classification (2013)

Nicolas Edet (born 2 December 1987) is a French professional road cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Arkéa–Samsic. He has entered the Tour de France on eight occasions and completed the race seven times. He won the mountains classification in the 2013 Vuelta a España,[4] and wore the red jersey of overall race leader, for one day, during the 2019 Vuelta a España.[5]

Major results

2007
8th Overall Tour du Faso
1st Stage 4
2008
4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
2009
4th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
10th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
2010
1st Stage 5 Giro della Valle d'Aosta
3rd Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie
1st Stage 4
3rd Overall Tour Alsace
2011
1st Mountains classification, Tour of Austria
10th Overall Tour of Turkey
2012
9th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
Combativity award Stage 1 Tour de France
2013
Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification
Combativity award Stage 4
1st Mountains classification, Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
4th Overall Tour of Turkey
8th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
9th Overall Tour of Austria
2014
5th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
1st Stage 3
7th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
2015
1st Mountains classification, Tour de Yorkshire
6th Overall Tour du Limousin
7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
7th Overall Critérium International
7th Cholet-Pays de Loire
2016
1st Sprints classification, Tour of the Basque Country
3rd Overall Route du Sud
4th Overall Tour du Limousin
5th Tour du Doubs
5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
10th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
2017
3rd Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
1st Mountains classification
4th Tour du Doubs
5th Overall Tour La Provence
9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
2018
1st Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Stage 3
2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
4th Tour du Finistère
2019
5th Overall Tour du Haut Var
10th Overall Tour de l'Ain
10th Classic Sud-Ardèche
Vuelta a España
Held after Stage 8
2020
1st Mountains classification, Paris–Nice
5th Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
5th Faun-Ardèche Classic
2022
3rd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
4th Overall Tour of Turkey
9th Overall Route d'Occitanie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — — — — — — — DNF DNF
A yellow jersey Tour de France — 128 — 77 111 106 76 43 DNF 49 —
A red jersey Vuelta a España DNF — 104 — — — — — 18 — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ Retsin, Frédéric (8 December 2017). "Les premières photos du stage de l'équipe Cofidis en Espagne" [The first photos of the Cofidis team in Spain]. La Voix du Nord (in French). Groupe Rossel. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ^ Bacon, Ellis (30 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Cofidis". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Cofidis". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ Puddicombe, Stephen (15 September 2013). "Chris Horner wins 2013 Vuelta a Espana". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Vuelta a Espana: Nikias Arndt wins wet stage eight as Nicolas Edet claims red jersey". BBC Sport. BBC. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2021.

External links

Vuelta a España mountains classification winners
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