# Arthur Vichot

Arthur Vichot (born 26 November 1988) is a French former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020, for the Groupama–FDJ and B&B Hotels–Vital Concept teams. He is the nephew of Frédéric Vichot, who won stages in the Tour de France in 1984 and 1985.

## Professional career

One tradition of the Tour Down Under is that the fans choose an unknown rider and treat him the way they would a star, by mobbing him at hotels and painting his name on the road. The rider must be a non-English speaking domestique who most likely will not get a start at a major race and will simply act as a bottle carrier. For 2010, in his first professional race, Arthur Vichot was chosen.
He started the 2011 season by taking fifth position at the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise. The next month, he went on to win the Boucles du Sud Ardèche, and he was selected to ride in Paris–Nice. Bad luck struck in the race as he crashed hard and cracked his clavicle, preventing him from racing the Ardennes classics. He was selected to race the Tour de France. He finished the event in 104th position after playing a role of domestique. In September, he achieved a solo victory near his home in the Tour du Doubs. He also cracked the top ten in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, finishing eighth.
In 2012, Vichot conquered the biggest victory of his career up to that point in the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, a mountainous affair that led the riders across the Col de la Colombière. He was part of the breakaway that formed at the beginning of the race and resisted to the bunch. With 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to go, Vichot distanced the remnants of the leading group, earning a solo victory.
In 2013 and 2016, Vichot won the French National Road Race Championships and the right to wear the coveted tricolor jersey in the Tour de France.

## Major results
### 2008

    1st Stage 2 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
    2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

### 2009

    3rd Overall Circuit des Ardennes

### 2010

    1st Stage 2 Paris–Corrèze
    8th Overall Tour de Wallonie

### 2011

    1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
    1st Tour du Doubs
    5th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
    9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

### 2012

    1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné
    2nd Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
    3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    10th Boucles de l'Aulne

### 2013

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Tour du Haut Var
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
    2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    10th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

### 2014

    3rd Overall Paris–Nice
       1st Stage 8
    3rd GP Ouest–France
    5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    5th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    8th Overall Tour du Limousin

### 2015

    7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    8th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
    8th Vuelta a Murcia

### 2016

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Tour du Haut Var
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
    3rd La Drôme Classic
    3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    7th Trofeo Laigueglia
    Combativity award Stage 11 Tour de France

### 2017

    1st Overall Tour du Haut Var
       1st Points classification
    1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    2nd La Drôme Classic
    4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
    7th Trofeo Laigueglia

### 2018

    1st Overall Tour de l'Ain
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 3
    2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
    4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    5th La Drôme Classic
    7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    10th Overall Tour de Suisse

### 2019

    6th La Drôme Classic

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career |
| Tour de France | — | 103 | 94 | 66 | DNF | — | 78 | DNF | 41 |
| Vuelta a España | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |