Florian Vachon (born 2 January 1985) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2020, for the Roubaix–Lille Métropole, and Bretagne–Schuller/Arkéa–Samsic teams.[4][5]
 Vachon at the 2010 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Florian Vachon |
| Born | 2 January 1985 Montluçon, France |
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[1] |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2002–2003 | VS Montluçon (junior) |
| 2004 | Montmarault Allier (junior) |
| 2005–2007 | EC Montmarault Montluçon |
| 2007 | Roubaix–Lille Métropole (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2008–2009 | Roubaix–Lille Métropole |
| 2010–2020 | Bretagne–Schuller[2][3] |
Major results edit
- 2005
- 2nd Championat d'Auvergne
- 2006
- 2nd Circuit des 2 ponts Montluçon
- 2007
- Tour du Haut-Anjou
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 1st Circuit Boussaquin
- 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 3rd Ronde du Pays Basque
- 8th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
- 8th Road race, UCI European Under-23 Road Championships
- 2008
- 1st Izegem
- 2nd Beuvry la Forêt
- 6th Tour de Vendée
- 2009
- 1st Stage 3 Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
- 4th Tour de Vendée
- 6th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
- 8th Le Samyn
- 8th Tro-Bro Léon
- 9th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
- 10th Grand Prix de la Somme
- 2010
- 1st Tour du Finistère
- 1st Stage 1 Route du Sud
- 1st Stage 3b Circuit des Ardennes
- 2nd Grand Prix de Denain
- 5th Tro-Bro Léon
- 7th Cholet-Pays de Loire
- 7th Tour de Vendée
- 8th Grand Prix de la Somme
- 9th Châteauroux Classic
- 2011
- 3rd Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 4th Polynormande
- 9th Flèche d'Emeraude
- 2012
- 1st Classic Loire Atlantique
- 1st Paris–Bourges
- 1st Stage 1 Critérium International
- 9th Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 9th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 3rd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 4th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 9th Tro-Bro Léon
- 2014
- 1st Classic Sud-Ardèche
- 2015
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
- 4th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 4th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 6th Tro-Bro Léon
- 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 2016
- 3rd Tro-Bro Léon
- 6th Overall La Méditerranéenne
- 2017
- 7th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2020
- 1st Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
Grand Tour general classification results timeline edit
| Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
Did not contest during his career | |||||
 Tour de France
|
103 | 88 | 105 | 103 | 99 | 123 |
 Vuelta a España
|
Did not contest during his career | |||||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References edit
- ^ a b "FLORIAN VACHON - Arkea-Samsic". Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ Mathieu, Adrien (1 January 2010). "Bretagne-Schuller". Velochrono.fr (in French). Velochrono. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ "Arkéa-Samsic". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Franck Bonnamour et Romain Le Roux avec Arkéa-Samsic en 2020" [Franck Bonnamour and Romain Le Roux with Arkéa-Samsic in 2020]. Arkéa–Samsic (in French). Pro Cycling Breizh. 14 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ Rochette, Raphaël (29 July 2020). "Florian Vachon (Arkéa-Samsic): "Il faudra s'accrocher sur les Strade Bianche"" [Florian Vachon (Arkéa-Samsic): "We'll have to hang on to the Strade Bianche"]. La Montagne (in French). Centre France. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
A son programme : les Strade Bianche, puis Milan-Turin et certainement Milan-San Remo; autant d'épreuves que l'Auvergnat découvrira pour sa dernière saison professionnelle. [On his program: the Strade Bianche, then Milan-Turin and certainly Milan-San Remo; so many events that the Auvergnat will discover for his last professional season.]
External links edit
- Official page on Blogger
- Bretagne-Schuller profile
- Florian Vachon at UCI
- Florian Vachon at Cycling Archives
- Florian Vachon at ProCyclingStats
- Florian Vachon at Cycling Quotient
- Florian Vachon at CycleBase
