# Christophe Riblon

Christophe Riblon (born 17 January 1981) is a French former road and track racing cyclist who competed as a professional for the AG2R La Mondiale 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 30 kilometres (19 mi) 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'Italia | 82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | 137 | 82 | 28 | 51 | 73 | 37 | 120 | 68 | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 46 | 130 | — | 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 | — | — | — | DNF | 20 | 85 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | DNF | 98 | — |
| Volta a Catalunya | — | — | 80 | — | - | 148 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour of the Basque Country | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 18 | 68 | 113 | — | OTL | — |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | — | — | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | 91 | 119 |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | — | — | 91 | — | 7 | 51 | 86 | — | — | DNF | — | — |
| Tour de Suisse | DNF | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | 49 | DNF | — | 76 | — |