Julian Alaphilippe
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Alaphilippe in 2014
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | 11 June 1992 Saint-Amand-Montrond, France |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Etixx-Quick Step |
| Discipline | Road, cyclo-cross |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncheur |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2012 | Armée de Terre |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2013 | Etixx-IHNed |
| 2014– | Omega Pharma-Quick Step |
| Major wins | |
| Stage races | |
| Infobox last updated on 22 May 2016 |
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Julian Alaphilippe (born 11 June 1992 in Saint-Amand-Montrond) is a French road cyclist and cyclocross racer. He currently rides for the team Etixx-Quick Step.[1] He is the brother of racing cyclist Bryan Alaphilippe.[2]
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Career
2014
Alaphilippe joined Omega Pharma-Quick Step in 2014. He obtained his first podium on the first stage of the Volta a Catalunya. He also was second in the fifth stage.[1] Alaphilippe scored his first victory as a neo-pro in Stage 4 of Tour de l'Ain where he showed his explosiveness in an uphill finish ahead of Dan Martin.[3] His best World Tour result of the year was a fifth-place finish in the GP Ouest-France
2015
2015 was a breakthrough year for Alaphilippe. He acted as a supporter role in the Ardennes classics to help his teammate, the reigning world champion Michał Kwiatkowski, but surprisingly finished 7th in the Amstel Gold Race behind winner Kwiatkowski. In La Flèche Wallonne, his first time participating in the race, he continued to support Kwiatkowski but found his teammate too far behind at a crucial juncture. His team director told him to go for the win and he finished second after three-time winner Alejandro Valverde.[4] The scenario repeated itself at Liège–Bastogne–Liège a few days later when Alaphilippe finished 2nd in his La Doyenne debut, again behind Valverde.[5] In doing so, the 22 years old realized the best French performance on this classic since 1998, when Laurent Jalabert finished second.[6]
After those performances and a string of podium finishes in the Tour de Romandie, Alaphilippe was on May 4 granted a contract extension for two more years, until the end of 2017.[7] Later in the month he won the queen stage of the Tour of California and took over the lead in the general classification, 2 seconds ahead of Peter Sagan.[8] However, he lost the overall eventually to Sagan by just 3 seconds in the last stage due to the time bonuses in a flat sprint.[9] In the later part of the summer, he finished eight in the Clásica de San Sebastián, finishing in the lead group behind the winner, Adam Yates. He subsequently finished tenth overall in the Eneco Tour, which included a stage that used many of the Ardennes classics roads.[10]
2016
In April, Alaphilippe placed 2nd at the La Flèche Wallonne for the second year in a row. He earned his biggest victory so far at the 2016 Tour of California, when he won a stage and the GC. He took the lead on stage 3 when he attacked on an HC climb with less than one kilometer left.
Palmares
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- 2012
- 2nd Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
- 1st Stage 2
- 2013
- 1st Grand Prix Südkärnten[1]
- 1st Stage 3 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 4th European Road Championships
- 5th Overall Tour de Bretagne
- 1st Stage 4
- 8th Overall Course de la Paix
- 9th UCI Under-23 World Road Race Championships
- 10th Grand Prix Kralovehradeckeho kraje
- 2014
- 3rd RideLondon–Surrey Classic
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Ain
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
Youth classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 5th GP Ouest-France
- 2015
- 2nd Overall Tour of California
- 1st Youth classification
- 1st Stage 7
- 1st
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th National Road Race Championships
- 7th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 10th Overall Eneco Tour
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Tour of California
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne
- 6th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Brabantse Pijl
Classics Results Timeline
This chart shows Alaphilippe progress in five monuments and the classics he mostly participated in.
| Year | Milan–San Remo | Tour of Flanders | Paris–Roubaix | Amstel Gold Race | La Flèche Wallonne | Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Clásica de San Sebastián | Paris–Tours | Giro di Lombardia | Road World Championships |
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| 2014 | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | DNF | - | DNF | - |
| 2015 | - | - | - | 7th | 2nd | 2nd | 8th | - | - | DNF |
| 2016 | - | - | - | 6th | 2nd | 23rd |
DNF = Did not finish; - = Did not compete
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