25 Facts About Bryan Coquard

Bryan Coquard was born on 25 April 1992 and is a French cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.

In 2009, Bryan Coquard won the gold medal in the omnium at the UCI Junior World Championships, as well as winning the scratch at the UEC European Junior Championships.

Bryan Coquard retained his Junior omnium crown in 2010, winning four of the six events, and he won a second medal with silver in the scratch race.

In 2011, Bryan Coquard won his first senior titles at the French National Track Championships, in the team pursuit and scratch races, and he won a silver medal in the omnium at the UEC European Track Championships.

Bryan Coquard was selected to represent France in the omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won the silver medal behind Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark.

Bryan Coquard signed a contract for a professional career on the roads from the 2013 season onwards, signing with Team Europcar.

At the start of 2014, Bryan Coquard again won two stages at February's Etoile de Besseges, but did not take another win until the Route Adelie de Vitre in April.

Bryan Coquard made his Tour de France debut, finishing fourth on the first stage into Harrogate, avoiding a crash in the final sprint.

Bryan Coquard recorded a total of seven top-ten stage finishes as he finished the race in third place in the points classification, losing second to Alexander Kristoff on the final stage.

Bryan Coquard took his first victory of the 2015 season at the Etoile de Besseges in February, where he won stage three.

Later in the month, Bryan Coquard won his first elite world title, when he won the madison at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships with Morgan Kneisky on home soil at the Velodrome National.

Bryan Coquard lost the race lead on the penultimate stage to Ignatas Konovalovas, having lost 38 seconds on the day; Konovalovas ultimately won the race by 14 seconds from Coquard, but Coquard won the points and young rider classifications.

Bryan Coquard began the 2016 season with consecutive victories in the first two stages of the Etoile de Besseges, ultimately winning the race's points classification.

Bryan Coquard returned to racing a month later, losing a victory to Jens Debusschere in a small bunch sprint at Dwars door Vlaanderen, having celebrated too early.

Bryan Coquard took two further podium finishes over the remainder of the season, with third-place finishes at the Grand Prix de Fourmies and the Tour de Vendee.

When celebrating his victory in the opening stage of the Tour of Belgium, Bryan Coquard made a gesture aimed at his general manager Jean-Rene Bernaudeau in the hopes that he would ride the Tour de France with the team.

Bryan Coquard took no further victories during the season, his best result being a second-place stage finish on the final stage of the Tour de Wallonie, leading home the peloton five seconds behind Dylan Teuns.

Bryan Coquard was offered a place on the Quick-Step Floors team, but turned it down as he felt he would be put as second sprinter behind Fernando Gaviria, who had won the points classification at the Giro d'Italia earlier in the year.

Bryan Coquard won the final stage of the Tour of Belgium, moving up to seventh place in the final general classification standings.

Bryan Coquard started the 2019 season with a victory on his first day of racing, winning the opening stage of the Etoile de Besseges.

Bryan Coquard followed this up with a stage win at the Four Days of Dunkirk, and then victory at the Grote Prijs Marcel Kint, his first one-day victory since 2016.

Bryan Coquard won the second stage at his next start, the Tour de la Provence, but he failed to start the following stage.

Bryan Coquard took no further victories during the campaign, but was a part of the French team that won a silver medal in the mixed team relay at the UCI Road World Championships in Glasgow, missing the gold medal by seven seconds.

Bryan Coquard began the 2024 season with a second-place finish at the Classica Comunitat Valenciana 1969, missing out to Dylan Groenewegen in the final sprint.

At the AlUla Tour, Bryan Coquard thought that he had won the fourth stage of the race, but was unable to get ahead of Tim Merlier before the finish line, who won by a narrow margin.