# Alexis Vuillermoz

Alexis Vuillermoz (born 1 June 1988) is a French former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2013 to 2024.

## Career
### Mountain biking (2006–2012)

He was originally a mountain bike racer before switching to road cycling, winning the French national under-23 mountain bike title twice and riding as part of the French national team that took the team relay title at the 2008 Mountain Bike World Championships.

### Sojasun (2013)

He was a member of the Sojasun team that competed at the 2013 Tour de France, finishing the race 46th overall.

### Ag2r–La Mondiale (2014–2020)

Vuillermoz joined Ag2r–La Mondiale for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Sojasun – folded at the end of the 2013 season. In the eighth stage of the 2015 Tour de France, Vuillermoz attacked the leading group on the Mûr-de-Bretagne to cross the line solo atop the hill. "After winning I thought about my dad who died three years ago. He was the one who got me interested in the Tour de France, he used to take my cousins and I to the side of the road to watch the Tour go past," said Vuillermoz. "I hope today he's proud of me."
In 2016, Vuillermoz finished in 23rd position in the Olympics men's road race and in 29th position in the Olympic men's road time trial.
He started the 2018 Tour de France, but was forced to abandon with a scapular fracture sustained after colliding with a roadside spectator trying to take a photo in one of the cobbled sectors on stage 9 to Roubaix.

### Total Direct Énergie (2021–present)

In October 2020, Vuillermoz signed an initial two-year contract with the Total Direct Énergie team, from the 2021 season. In his first season with the team, he finished fourth at the Tour du Finistère, and seventh overall at the Tour du Rwanda. During the Tour de Suisse, Vuillermoz crashed during the seventh stage individual time trial, fracturing his pelvis and doctors advised him not to race again.
At the start of the 2022 season, Vuillermoz recorded top-ten finishes in four of his first five race starts, with a best finish of fourth place at the GP Miguel Induráin. Later in the month, he finished third at the Classic Grand Besançon Doubs, and recorded a tenth-place finish in La Flèche Wallonne. That June, Vuillermoz won a stage from the breakaway at the Critérium du Dauphiné, winning a sprint finish of five riders in Brives-Charensac that managed to fend off the peloton by five seconds and assumed the race lead following the stage. Having extended his contract by a further two years in August, Vuillermoz did not return to the podium until October's Gran Piemonte, where he finished in third place.

## Major results
### Mountain biking
#### 2005

    3rd Team relay, UCI World Championships
    3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships

#### 2006

    1st Cross-country, National Junior Championships
    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships

#### 2008

    1st Team relay, UCI World Championships
    1st Team relay, UEC European Championships

#### 2009

    1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
    2nd Cross-country, UCI Under-23 World Championships

#### 2010

    1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships

### Road

Source:

#### 2012

    5th Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie

#### 2013

    5th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour

#### 2014 (1 pro win)

    1st Mountains classification, Route du Sud
    3rd Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
       1st Stage 2
    5th Tour du Doubs
    8th Overall Critérium International

#### 2015 (3)

    1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    1st International Road Cycling Challenge
    1st Stage 8 Tour de France
    6th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
       1st Stage 2
    6th La Flèche Wallonne
    9th Overall Tour du Haut Var
    9th Overall Critérium International

#### 2016

    2nd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships
    5th Overall Critérium International

#### 2017 (3)

    1st Overall Tour du Limousin
       1st Stage 2
    1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    4th Giro di Lombardia
    4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    6th Giro dell'Emilia

#### 2018

    2nd Overall Tour du Haut Var
    4th Classic de l'Ardèche
    5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    5th Coppa Sabatini
    8th Overall Paris–Nice

#### 2019 (1)

    1st La Drôme Classic
    4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
    7th Classic de l'Ardèche

#### 2021

    4th Tour du Finistère
    7th Overall Tour du Rwanda

#### 2022 (1)

    1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné
    3rd Gran Piemonte
    3rd Classic Grand Besançon Doubs
    4th GP Miguel Induráin
    6th La Drôme Classic
    7th Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
    10th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
    10th La Flèche Wallonne
    10th Ardèche Classic

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | 29 | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 46 | — | 26 | 20 | 13 | DNF | 41 | 35 | — | DNF |
| Vuelta a España | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |