Nicolas Roche

Nicolas Roche ( born July 3, 1984 in Conflans -Sainte -Honorine, France) is an Irish racing cyclist.

  • 4.1 Placements in the Grand Tours

Family and Nationality

Nicolas Roche, whose mother is French and his father is the former Road World Champion and Tour de France winner Stephen Roche, was born in France and had thus in addition to Irish and French citizenship. Having previously be given according to the rules of the International Cycling Sports Federation UCI suffrage to the effect exerted to drive with French royalty, he had in 2005 to decide on the basis of a new French law for one of the two citizenships: He chose first the French, however, started in the sequence with Irish license ..

Career

Junior

Nicolas Roche was able to retract some success in the juniors; he won in 2002, when he went for the French team OCCV Draguignan at the start, including the overall and two stages of the Tour of Ireland ( juniors).

U23

During his time in the age group under 23, he played mainly in the service of well-known and successful French team VC La Pomme Marseille, Roche could in turn draw attention to themselves with good results. Not least his second place in the overall standings of the Tour du Loir -et -Cher, as well as his third place at the Irish Championships in the road race in 2004 brought him from 1 September of the same year a place in the French team Cofidis internships one.

Professional

His first season as a professional denied Roche in 2005 for Cofidis as one of the youngest riders in the UCI ProTour. A year later, then the first successes came one with a fourth place in the overall standings at the stage race Paris -Corrèze and winning a stage of the Tour de l' Avenir, which he could also finish in fourth place in the overall standings.

In 2006, he joined Crédit Agricole, for which he could be 2007 Irish champion in the time trial. In 2008, Nicolas Roche Eapppensiege succeeded in the Grand Prix Paredes Rota dos moveis and the Tour du Limousin.

For the 2009 season Nicolas Roche joined the French team ag2r -La Mondiale, for which he drove until 2012. In addition to victories in the Irish road championship in 2009 and a stage win at the Tour of Beijing 2011, he developed into a solid driver for three-week tour and was able to, among others at the Vuelta a España 2010 seventh and in the Tour de France 2012 in twelfth overall place.

Autobiography

For its 2011 published autobiography Inside the Peloton Roche Award in the same year with the Irish Book Award in the category of sports book.

Achievements

2006

  • A stage in the Tour de l' Avenir

2007

  • Irish Champion - Individual Time Trial

2008

  • A stage Paredes Rota dos Grand Prix moveis
  • A stage of the Tour du Limousin

2009

  • Irish Champion - Road Race

2011

  • A stage of the Tour of Beijing

2013

  • A stage in the Vuelta a España

Rankings in the Grand Tours

Team

  • 2004 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone ( Stagiaire )
  • 2005 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
  • 2006 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
  • 2007 Crédit Agricole
  • 2008 Crédit Agricole
  • 2009 AG2R
  • 2010 AG2R
  • 2011 AG2R
  • 2012 AG2R
  • 2013 Saxo - Tinkoff
  • 2014 Tinkoff Saxo
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine Race stage 2012 Tour de France Irish Book Awards General classification in the Giro d'Italia General classification in the Tour de France 2008 Tour de France 2009 Tour de France 2010 Tour de France 2011 Tour de France 2013 Tour de France Seamus Elliott Pat McQuaid Paul Kimmage Martin Earley David McCann Mark Scanlon (cyclist) Dan Martin (cyclist)
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