26 Facts About Warren Barguil

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Warren Barguil is best known for winning two mountain stages and the mountains classification of the 2017 Tour de France.

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Warren Barguil won stage 8 of the Tour de l'Avenir, and finished 5th overall, riding for the French national team.

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Warren Barguil took no other wins this season, but placed 4th in the Rund um Koln and 8th in the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise.

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Warren Barguil wanted to race the Tour de France, but the team wanted Warren Barguil to do the Vuelta a Espana , but to focus on the general classification.

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Warren Barguil finished in 8th position overall at the Vuelta a Espana, with his best stage result coming on Stage 20 with a 6th position atop the Puerto Ancares.

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Warren Barguil took his form with him to China, where he raced the Tour of Beijing, and finished in 6th position overall.

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The 2015 season was the first season with Warren Barguil's main focus on the Tour de France.

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Warren Barguil struggled with fitness during the spring season, but finished 12th in the Tour de Suisse as his warm up race for the Tour de France.

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Warren Barguil opened the Tour de France with a great first week, finishing 13th atop the Mur-de-Bretagne and was in 8th position overall after that stage.

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Warren Barguil struggled in the third week, and dropped out of top 10 in the last few stages; he ended up finishing his first Tour de France in 14th overall.

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Warren Barguil finished 3rd on Stage 7 of the Tour de Suisse to Solden, and therefore took the yellow leader's jersey before heading in to the last two stages.

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Warren Barguil lost the lead the following day however, due to his 21st position in the stage eight individual time trial.

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Warren Barguil showed excellent form at the start of the Tour de France, and was 4th overall at his best in the first week.

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Warren Barguil went to the Olympic Games but abandoned the road race.

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Warren Barguil abandoned the Vuelta a Espana on Stage 3.

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Warren Barguil was ruled out for some weeks before making his comeback at Criterium du Dauphine where he had no success.

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Warren Barguil took the polka dot jersey after Stage 9 of the Tour de France; he was beaten into second position by a whisker at the stage's finishing line in Chambery by Rigoberto Uran in a thrilling photo finish.

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Warren Barguil won Stage 13 in a sprint finish from a four-man breakaway in Foix, beating Nairo Quintana, Alberto Contador and Mikel Landa; that was the first Tour de France stage win of his career and made him the first Frenchman to win a Tour de France stage on Bastille Day since David Moncoutie's Stage 12 victory in 2005.

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Warren Barguil was thrown out the Vuelta a Espana by Team Sunweb prior to Stage 8.

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Warren Barguil was 13th in the general classification after the end of Stage 7,1:43 behind the general classification leader Chris Froome.

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Warren Barguil opened his season at the Tour La Provence, and finished 32nd overall.

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At the Tour de France, Warren Barguil made his first attack on the first mountain stage but it was without any luck.

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Warren Barguil finished 2nd overall in the Mountains classification and 17th overall in the race.

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Warren Barguil had previously considered retiring from the sport due to his lack of success.

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Warren Barguil entered the Tour de France as usual, again with the goal of getting stage wins.

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Warren Barguil attacked on several mountain stages, showing good form, but was unable to win any stages.