Bryan Coquard

Stage races Bryan Coquard (born 25 April 1992) is a French cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.

[8] He retained his Junior omnium crown in 2010,[7] winning four of the six events, and he won a second medal with silver in the scratch race.

He was selected to represent France in the omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won the silver medal behind Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark.

[29] He made his Tour de France début,[30] finishing fourth on the first stage into Harrogate, avoiding a crash in the final sprint.

[41][42] Coquard began the 2016 season with consecutive victories in the first two stages of the Étoile de Bessèges,[43][44] ultimately winning the race's points classification.

[46] He returned to racing a month later, losing a victory to Jens Debusschere in a small bunch sprint at Dwars door Vlaanderen, having celebrated too early.

[48] After a stage win at the Circuit de la Sarthe,[49] his form continued into the hilly classics of Brabantse Pijl and the Amstel Gold Race, finishing fourth in both.

In his build up to the Tour de France, he won the first two stages of the Route du Sud,[55][56] but failed to finish the race.

[69][70] Coquard was also offered a place on the Quick-Step Floors team, but turned it down as he felt he would be put as second sprinter behind Fernando Gaviria, who had won the points classification at the Giro d'Italia earlier in the year.

He took his first victory in February during the opening stage of the Tour of Oman where he won a sprint finish ahead of Mark Cavendish.

[76] Coquard started the 2019 season with a victory on his first day of racing, winning the opening stage of the Étoile de Bessèges.

[88][89] He also won a silver medal in the opening round of the 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Minsk, in the madison with Benjamin Thomas.

[90] In an abbreviated 2020 season largely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Coquard's only victory came at the Route d'Occitanie, where he won the opening stage; he also finished second to Arnaud Démare at the French National Road Race Championships, and third at the Scheldeprijs.

[3] Coquard ended his 18-month winless streak when he won the second stage of the Étoile de Bessèges in February, winning an uphill sprint in Rousson ahead of Mads Pedersen.

[107] Coquard began the 2024 season with a second-place finish at the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969, missing out to Dylan Groenewegen in the final sprint.

Coquard (centre) at the 2016 Tour de France , along with compatriots Julian Alaphilippe (left) and Alexis Gougeard (right)
Coquard leading Nikias Arndt during the stage 20 individual time trial at the 2020 Tour de France
Coquard at the 2023 Tour de France