Blel Kadri

Blel Kadri is a former French professional road racing cyclist of Algerian descent who most recently rode for the UCI ProTeam AG2R La Mondiale. In March 2013 he won the Roma Maxima, a newly revived race formerly known as the Giro del Lazio, by joining the early breakaway, shaking off his fellow escapees and holding off the peloton alone for the last 40 kilometres to triumph in Rome. On 12 July 2014 he achieved his biggest success, a first Tour de France stage victory, and on that stage he also won the Most Combative Rider award for the second time during that Tour and held the King of the Mountains jersey. After retiring from professional racing he worked in the cycling aisle of a department store in Toulouse.