Bryan Coquard

Bryan Coquard (born 25 April 1992) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He was a silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Omnium.
Career
Youth and amateur career
Coquard began cycling in 1999 at the age of seven, at the US Pontchâteau club. In September 2008, aged sixteen, he joined CREPS Bordeaux, where he was coached by Éric Vermeulen.
In 2009, Coquard won the gold medal in the omnium at the UCI Juniors World Championships, as well as winning the scratch at the European championships. He retained his Junior Omnium crown in 2010, winning four of the six events, he also finished second in the Scratch Race. Due to his track success, in June 2011 Coquard signed a contract with for the start of the 2013 professional road season. Later that month, he became the omnium champion of France, winning 5 of the 6 races. Following this, he was selected to represent France in the omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal finishing behind Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark.
Team Europcar
Coquard signed a contract for a professional career on the roads from the 2013 season onwards, signing with . His 2013 campaign began well, as he took two stages in the Étoile de Bessèges in January and February. In 2015, Coquard won the first stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk. The stage featured cobbled sectors, fracturing the peloton to bits, and Coquard won the sprint of a small group of three.
Bryan Coquard began the 2016 season with two victories in the first and second stages of the Étoile de Bessèges. However, on 16 February, in preparation for the Vuelta a Andalucía, he fractured his right shoulder blade. He returned a month later in time for the classics season, having missed his first objective of the year, Paris–Nice. He started off well finishing 2nd behind Jens Debusschere in a small bunch sprint at Dwars door Vlaanderen. After a stage win at the Circuit de la Sarthe, his form continued into the hilly classics of Brabantse Pijl and the Amstel Gold Race finishing fourth in both. In May, he won his first professional stage race at the Four Days of Dunkirk while also winning three stages in the process. The following month, he won his first race against the clock during the prologue of the Boucles de la Mayenne, as well as winning the next stage. In his build up to the Tour de France, he beat Arnaud Démare in the first two stages of the Route du Sud.
Vital Concept
In August 2017 it was confirmed that Coquard had signed for the newly formed team, as team leader for 2018, shortly after Coquard was excluded from the Tour de France team. Coquard was also offered a place on the team, but turned it down as he felt he would be put as 2nd sprinter behind Fernando Gaviria
Coquard made his debut for Vital Concept in January 2018 at the Sharjah International Cycling Tour. He took his first victory in February at stage 1 of the Tour of Oman where he won a sprint finish ahead of Mark Cavendish. Earlier in the month Coquard narrowly missed out on victory at the Étoile de Bessèges, when Christophe Laporte passed him out at the finish line while Coquard was celebrating the victory he had thought he had won.
Cofidis
In August 2021, Coquard signed a two-year contract with , from the 2022 season.
Major results
Road
2010
2nd Road race, UEC European Junior Championships
2nd La Bernaudeau Junior
2012
1st Grand Prix Cristal Energie
1st Stage 5 Tour de Berlin
2nd Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships
2013 (6 pro wins)
1st Châteauroux Classic
Étoile de Bessèges
1st Points classification
1st Stages 2 & 4
Tour de Langkawi
1st Stages 8 & 9
2nd Overall French Cup
1st Young rider classification
2nd Overall Tour de Picardie
1st Stage 2
2nd Val d'Ille Classic
2nd Grand Prix de Denain
3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
5th Paris–Camembert
5th Boucles de l'Aulne
6th Tour de Vendée
8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
2014 (5)
1st Route Adélie
1st Paris–Camembert
Étoile de Bessèges
1st Stages 3 & 4
3rd Overall Tour de Picardie
1st Stage 1
2015 (4)
Route du Sud
1st Points classification
1st Stages 2 & 4
1st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges
2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1
4th Overall Tour de Picardie
4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
4th Brussels Cycling Classic
5th Trofeo Playa de Palma
5th Grand Prix de la Somme
9th Trofeo Santanyi-Ses Salines-Campos
10th Grand Prix de Denain
2016 (13)
1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
1st Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
1st Points classification
1st Prologue & Stage 2
1st Route Adélie
Étoile de Bessèges
1st Points classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
Route du Sud
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Stage 2a Circuit de la Sarthe
2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
3rd Tour de Vendée
4th Brabantse Pijl
4th Clásica de Almería
4th Amstel Gold Race
5th Paris–Tours
6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
2017 (5)
Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Points classification
1st Stages 2a & 4
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 5 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
2018 (3)
1st Stage 1 Tour of Oman
1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk
2nd Paris–Bourges
7th Overall Sharjah International Cycling Tour
7th Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Stage 5
2019 (8)
1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami
1st Grote Prijs Marcel Kint
1st Points classification, Tour de Wallonie
Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2
1st Stage 1 Étoile de Bessèges
1st Stage 2 Arctic Race of Norway
1st Stage 4 Four Days of Dunkirk
2nd Cholet-Pays de la Loire
3rd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
1st Stage 3
3rd Tour de Vendée
5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
6th La Roue Tourangelle
7th Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Stage 5
8th Paris–Chauny
2020 (1)
1st Stage 1 Route d'Occitanie
2nd Road race, National Championships
3rd Scheldeprijs
2021
2nd Grand Prix du Morbihan
3rd Grand Prix La Marseillaise
4th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
5th Paris–Bourges
6th Paris–Tours
2022 (3)
1st Tour de Vendée
1st Stage 2 Tour de la Provence
1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges
2nd La Roue Tourangelle
3rd Paris–Bourges
6th Grand Prix La Marseillaise
7th Omloop van het Houtland
10th Circuit Franco-Belge
2023 (3)
2nd Team relay, UCI World Championships
4th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
4th Tour de Vendée
5th Paris–Chauny
5th Route Adélie de Vitré
7th Overall Région Pays de la Loire Tour
1st Stages 1 & 3
8th Paris–Bourges
9th Schwalbe Classic
10th Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 4
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
2009
1st Omnium, UCI World Junior Championships
UEC European Junior Championships
1st Scratch
3rd Team pursuit
2010
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Omnium
2nd Scratch
UEC European Junior Championships
3rd Madison (with Romain Le Roux)
3rd Scratch
3rd Team pursuit
National Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Madison (with Jauffrey Betouigt-Suire)
2nd Omnium, National Championships
2011
National Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Scratch
2nd Madison (with Morgan Lamoisson)
2nd Omnium, UEC European Championships
3rd Ominium, UCI World Cup, Cali
2012
National Championships
1st Omnium
1st Madison (with Morgan Lamoisson)
3rd Scratch
2nd Omnium, Olympic Games
UEC European Under-23 Championships
2nd Omnium
2nd Points race
2nd Ominium, UCI World Cup, Beijing
2nd Six Days of Grenoble (with Morgan Kneisky)
2013
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Madison (with Thomas Boudat)
2nd Scratch
2nd Team pursuit
2015
1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Morgan Kneisky)
UEC European Championships
1st Elimination race
3rd Madison (with Morgan Kneisky)
National Championships
1st Madison (with Thomas Boudat)
1st Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
2019
UEC European Championships
1st Points race
2nd Elimination race
2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Minsk (with Benjamin Thomas)
References
External links
1992 births
Living people
French male cyclists
French track cyclists
Olympic cyclists for France
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic medalists in cycling
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Sportspeople from Saint-Nazaire
Cyclists from Loire-Atlantique