# Jérémy Roy (cyclist)

Jérémy Roy (born 22 June 1983) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2003 and 2018, spending his entire career with the Groupama–FDJ team through its various team guises. He was named the most aggressive rider of the 2011 Tour de France after escaping into breakaways on many stages and continuously attacking from inside the breakaway.

## Biography

Born in Tours, Roy turned professional with FDJeux.com in 2003. During his early career, he continued his studies at the French National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes, and graduated in 2007 in mechanical and automated engineering. Despite splitting his time between studying and cycling, Roy still finished 4th in the Tour de Picardie and won the young rider competition in 2006. Also in 2006, he finished 4th in the Châteauroux Classic de l'Indre, then 4th in the Grand Prix de Plumelec Morbihan in 2007 and 5th in the Route du Sud in 2008.
Roy gained his first professional victory on 12 March 2009, when he won stage 5 of Paris–Nice, beating his breakaway companion Thomas Voeckler in a sprint. The following year he won the Tro Bro Leon, performed well in the La Flèche Wallonne and finished third in the prologue of the Tour de Romandie.
He won his first race of 2011, the Grand Prix La Marseillaise Open in late January. He began the 2011 Tour de France by attacking on the 1st stage, and again on stage 4, winning the award for most combative rider for that stage. Roy came agonisingly close to winning stage 13, finishing third after being caught with 2.5 km to go, by Thor Hushovd and David Moncoutié, after a challenging pursuit in the final kilometres. He did, however, gain enough points to take the lead in the classification for the Polka Dot Jersey, and the combativity award once more. He also got in a break on the final stage and spent over 700 km of the race in breakaways.

## Major results
### 2001

    5th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships

### 2002

    4th Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines

### 2003

    2nd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

### 2005

    6th Tour du Doubs
    6th Route Adélie
    9th Tour de Vendée
    10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

### 2006

    4th Overall Tour de Picardie
       1st Young rider classification
    4th Châteauroux Classic

### 2007

    4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    8th Cholet-Pays de Loire
    9th Tour du Doubs

### 2008

    5th Overall Route du Sud
    7th Duo Normand (with Yoann Le Boulanger)

### 2009

    1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice

### 2010

    1st Tro-Bro Léon
    2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux)
    8th Chrono des Herbiers
    10th Tour du Finistère

### 2011

    1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    2nd Duo Normand (with Anthony Roux)
    Tour de France
       Held Stage 13
       Combativity award Stages 4, 13 & Overall

### 2012

    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
       1st Stage 4
    2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
    4th Chrono des Nations
    9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt

### 2013

    1st Mountains classification Critérium International
    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
    8th Chrono des Nations

### 2014

    2nd Chrono des Nations
    5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
    6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

### 2016

    7th Chrono des Nations
    8th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes
    Combativity award Stage 14 Tour de France

### 2017

    7th Chrono des Nations

### 2018

    3rd Duo Normand (with Bruno Armirail)
    7th Chrono des Nations

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 73 | 109 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | 121 | 46 | 142 | 85 | 66 | 126 | 57 | 105 | 96 | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | 82 | 122 | 104 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |