Christophe Riblon (; born 17 January 1981) is a French former road and track racing cyclist who competed as a professional for the team for 13 seasons between 2005 and 2017. He also competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Career Born in Tremblay-en-France, Seine-Saint-Denis, Riblon won two mountain-top finishes of the Tour de France, including stage 14 of the 2010 Tour de France at the ski resort of Ax-3 Domaines in the Pyrenees, and stage 18 of the 2013 Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez.
During his 2010 victory, he was part of the early breakaway that went free into the race, and he crested the penultimate climb of the day alone, the Port de Pailheres. He had a two-minute lead at the foot of the last climb, and held on to win solo as the general classification contenders were battling it out behind him.
He won his 2013 stage following a long breakaway, chasing down Tejay van Garderen over the second ascent of Alpe d'Huez and holding on to win by a minute, despite crashing into a ditch on the descent of the Col de Sarenne. In doing so he became the race's first (and only) French winner of a stage that year.
Major results
2001 8th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies 2004 1st Road race, National Amateur Road Championships 2005 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir 8th Tartu GP 10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2006 5th GP Plumelec-Morbihan 7th Overall Circuit de Lorraine 1st Stage 4 2007 1st Tour de la Somme 2nd Duo Normand (with Émilien-Benoît Bergès) 2008 2nd Points race, UCI Track World Championships 2009 1st Stage 3 Route du Sud 6th Clásica de San Sebastián 2010 1st Stage 14 Tour de France 1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche 2nd Madison (with Morgan Kneisky), UCI Track World Championships 5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 5th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 7th Tour du Doubs 8th Overall Tour de Pologne 10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2012 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 9th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche 10th Overall Critérium International 2013 Tour de France 1st Stage 18 Combativity award Stage 18 & Overall 3rd Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Stage 2 2014 4th Overall Tour de Pologne 2015 7th Overall Tour de Pologne
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Giro d'Italia82————————— Tour de France—137822851733712068— Vuelta a España——46130—162———153
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
Other major stage races Race 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Paris–Nice———DNF2085—————— Tirreno–Adriatico——————9——DNF 98— Volta a Catalunya——80— -148—————— Tour of the Basque Country———DNF——1868113— OTL— Tour de Romandie————32————— 91 119 Critérium du Dauphiné——91—75186——DNF—— Tour de SuisseDNF43—————49DNF— 76—
References
External links
Profile at AG2R Prévoyance official website