# John Gadret

John Gadret (born 22 April 1979) is a French former professional racing cyclist in cyclo-cross and road racing, currently racing for the USO Bruay-la-Buissière amateur team. He became a stagiaire for Cofidis in 2003 before turning professional with the Vlaanderen–T Interim team in 2004.

## Career

In 2004 he became national cyclo-cross champion of France for the first time. At this stage he was specialized in the cyclo-cross discipline but was beginning to perform well in stage races such as the Deutschland Tour. Gadret won again the French cyclo-cross championships. In the 2006 Giro d'Italia Gadret showed great potential in the mountains by finishing 7th, 6th and 5th on the three mountain stages. He crashed on the 18th stage and was forced to abandon with a broken collarbone. Despite these promising results on the road, Gadret was back in the 2006–2007 cyclo-cross season where he challenged the domination of Belgian Sven Nys in the Koppenbergcross and finished 8th in the UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships. Returning to the road with the aim of competing in his first Tour de France, Gadret took his first road victory at the Grand Prix of Aargau Canton. After the 2007 Tour de France Gadret won the third stage and took the leader's jersey in the Tour de l'Ain which he won the following day.
On Stage 15 of the 2010 Tour de France Gadret caused controversy when he refused to give his wheel to his team leader, Nicolas Roche, following a puncture on the final climb of the day and then began attacking the group ahead of Roche. He later finished 19th overall.
He has won a race against a horse in a charity event.
In the 2011 Giro d'Italia, Gadret finished 3rd overall with a victory on stage 11. He finished 3' 54" behind race winner Michele Scarponi.
After eight seasons with Ag2r–La Mondiale, Gadret left the squad at the end of the 2013 season, and joined the Movistar Team for 2014. He was unable to secure a professional contract after the 2015 season, and returned to the amateur ranks.

## Career achievements
### Cyclo-cross
#### 1996–1997

    3rd National Junior Championships

#### 1998–1999

    2nd National Under-23 Championships

#### 2001–2002

    3rd National Championships

#### 2002–2003

    2nd National Championships

#### 2003–2004

    1st National Championships

#### 2004–2005

    2nd National Championships

#### 2005–2006

    1st National Championships

#### 2006–2007

    2nd National Championships
    Superprestige
       3rd Gavere

#### 2007–2008

    2nd National Championships

#### 2010–2011

    2nd National Championships

#### 2012–2013

    3rd National Championships

#### 2015–2016

    3rd National Championships

#### 2016–2017

    3rd National Championships

### Road
#### 2005

    3rd Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts
    4th Tro-Bro Léon
    9th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    10th Trophée des Grimpeurs

#### 2007

    1st Overall Tour de l'Ain
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 3
    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    7th Overall Volta a Catalunya
    8th La Flèche Wallonne

#### 2008

    1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Ain
    8th Overall Tour de Romandie
    10th La Flèche Wallonne

#### 2009

    8th Overall Tour de l'Ain

#### 2010

    6th Overall Route du Sud

#### 2011

    3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 11
    6th Tour du Doubs
    7th Overall Tour de l'Ain

#### 2013

    3rd Overall Route du Sud
    3rd Overall Tour de l'Ain
    10th Overall Critérium International
    10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | 13 | 3 | 11 | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | 54 | DNF | — | 18 | DNF | — | 22 | 19 |
| / Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | 18 | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |