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Jérôme Cousin

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Jérôme Cousin
Cousin in 2015.
Personal information
Full nameJérôme Cousin
Born (1989-06-05) 5 June 1989 (age 35)
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 teamTeam TotalEnergies
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Amateur teams
2007Team UC 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]

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

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

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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

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Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia Has not contested during his career
A yellow jersey Tour de France 156 121 93 HD
A red jersey 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

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  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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