Full name Thibaut Pinot Name Thibaut Pinot 2010– Francaise des Jeux Weight 63 kg | Rider type Climber Height 1.80 m Discipline Road Role Bicycler | |
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Born 29 May 1990 (age 33) Melisey, Haute-Saone, France ( 1990-05-29 ) Parents Regis Pinot, Marie-Jeanne Pinot Siblings Julien Pinot, Marine Pinot Similar People Romain Bardet, Sandy Casar, Jussi Veikkanen | ||
Current team Team Francaise des Jeux | ||
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Thibaut Pinot (born 29 May 1990) is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI WorldTeam FDJ. He is rated as one of the most promising talents in French cycling, and ended as third overall in the 2014 Tour de France, and first in the young rider classification in the race.
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Thibaut pinot best moments
Career
Pinot was born in Mélisey, Haute-Saône.
2012
Pinot, aged 22 was the youngest rider in the 2012 Tour de France. He took a prestigious victory on the eighth stage from Belfort to Porrentruy, which comprised seven categorized climbs including the Category 1 Col de la Croix, where he passed Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) shortly before the summit. He then negotiated the descent and the flat portion of road before the finish situated 16 km from the climb. He held on to his lead over the chasing group which included some of the Tour's general classification contenders despite the head wind, being frantically encouraged by his team manager, Marc Madiot. He crossed the line alone with an advantage of 26 seconds over the chasers. Despite being the youngest rider of the Tour, he managed to finish 10th overall in the final general classification. At 22 years and 54 days, he became the youngest rider to finish in the top 10 since Raymond Impanis in 1947, who was then 21 years and 8 months old.
2013–2014
At the 2013 Tour de France, Pinot abandoned the race on stage 16. He rebounded from this disappointment to finish seventh overall in the Vuelta a España.
At the 2014 Tour de France, Pinot won the white jersey for being the best young rider and finished in third place in the final general classification, behind Vincenzo Nibali (1st) and Jean-Christophe Péraud (2nd). He and Péraud became the first Frenchmen to finish in the top three overall in the Tour de France since Richard Virenque finished as the runner-up overall in 1997. It was the first time in 30 years that two Frenchmen finished in the top three overall in the Tour de France - Laurent Fignon (winner) and Bernard Hinault (runner-up) finished in the top two overall in 1984.
2015
In 2015, Pinot had his first victory of the season at the Tour de Romandie. He won the queen stage of the race with seven seconds of an advantage over his nearest pursuer, Ilnur Zakarin of Team Katusha. He finished fourth in the general classification and was awarded the best Young rider jersey. In June, as he was preparing for the 2015 Tour de France, he participated to the Tour de Suisse and won the queen stage, a long and difficult event featuring a mountaintop finish. He won solo atop the Rettenbach glacier. At the 2015 Tour de France, Pinot lost consirable time in the first week due to crashes and mechanical issues, yet he won Stage 20 (it finished in Alpe d'Huez) in solo fashion and finished 16th in the final general classification.
2016
After a brilliant spring that included two stage wins and the overall standings at the Critérium International, as well as a victory at the time-trial and the second place overall at the Tour de Romandie, Pinot won a stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné, and days later the French National Time-Trial Championships. However, Pinot performed badly in Stage 12 of the Tour de France and withdrew from the race just before the start of Stage 13. On 1 September, Pinot announced on Twitter that his 2016 cycling season had come to an end, citing "persistent fatigue due to a virus" and "in order to prepare best for the next season" as the reasons for his decision to end his season prematurely.