Jérôme Cousin

Jérôme Cousin (born 5 June 1989) is a French professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie.[3]

Jérôme Cousin
Cousin in 2015.
Personal information
Full nameJérôme Cousin
Born (1989-06-05) 5 June 1989
Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire,
Pays de la Loire, France
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb; 11 st 9 lb)
Team information
Current teamTotal Direct Énergie
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Amateur teams
2007UC Nantes Atlantique junior
2008–2010Vendée U
2009Bbox Bouygues Telecom (stagiaire)
2010Bbox Bouygues Telecom (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2011–2015Team Europcar
2016–2017Cofidis
2018–Direct Énergie[1][2]

In October 2015 Cofidis announced that Cousin would join them from 2016 on a two-year contract,[4] after six years with Team Europcar and its previous iterations. He returned to the team in 2018, now known as Direct Énergie, upon the expiration of his contract.[5]

Major results

2006
5th Chrono des Nations Juniors
2008
3rd Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou
9th Chrono des Nations Espoirs
2010
8th Overall Ronde de l'Isard
1st Stage 1
10th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2011
7th Overall Danmark Rundt
9th Polynormande
2012
1st Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Stage 2
Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
1st Points classification
1st Stage 3
2013
2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
Tour de France
Combativity award Stages 1 & 10
2018
1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice
Combativity award Stage 4 Tour de France
2019
3rd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
7th Paris–Camembert
2020
Combativity award Stage 3 Tour de France

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Giro d'Italia Has not contested during his career
Tour de France 156 121 93 HD
Vuelta a España 78 73 129
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
HD Finished a stage outside the time limit resulting in them being eliminated.

References

  1. "Direct Énergie". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  2. "Total Direct Énergie". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  3. "Total Direct Energie". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. "Team Cofidis Announces Its Final Roster For Next Season". Orbea. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  5. "Two-year extension for Calmejane at Direct Energie". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Confirmed signings from 2018 include Axel Journiaux (Neo-Pro), Simon Sellier (Neo-Pro), Rein Taaramäe (Katusha-Alpecin), Jérôme Cousin (Cofidis), and Damien Gaudin (l'Armée de Terre).


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