page_title: Nicolas Roche
section_title: 2013
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolas Roche / Career / Tinkoff–Saxo (2013–2014) / 2013
caption_attribution_description: Español: Nicolas Roche (Saxo Tinkoff) llegando 10º a la meta del Naranco
context_page_description: Nicolas Roche is an Irish professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Sunweb. He has twice been national champion and has twice finished in the top ten of the Vuelta a España, and won stages in 2013 and 2015. He represented Ireland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the road race. He has competed for Ireland 7 times at the road world championships.
context_section_description: Throughout much of the season with Saxo–Tinkoff including the Tour de France, he rode as a domestique for Alberto Contador with few results. After a good performance at the Clásica de San Sebastián finishing 5th, he was given leadership at the Vuelta a España. On 25 August, Roche won stage two of the Vuelta by breaking away with three others on the final climb at the end of the 177 km (110.0 mi) stage from Pontevedra to Alto Do Monte Da Groba. Roche held the leader's red jersey until stage 8, and also held the lead of the points, mountains and combination classifications at one stage in the race. On stage 8 Roche lost the jersey finishing eight seconds behind Daniel Moreno to fall one second behind in the general classification. After stage 13 Roche was 2nd overall but on a cold day to Andorra on stage 14 he dropped to 6th overall. He went on to finish 5th overall in the general classification, his best result to date in a Grand Tour. Later that year Roche again competed for Ireland in the World Championships and the World Time Trial Championships where he finished 13th.
caption: Roche at the 2013 Vuelta a España
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