Julian Alaphilippe

Julian Alaphilippe, born on 11 June 1992 in Saint-Amand-Montrond, is a French professional road cyclist and former cyclo-cross racer who won the UCI World Road Championships twice. He began in cyclo-cross, finishing second at the 2010 junior world championships, then turned to the road in 2012 with the amateur team Armée de Terre and joined the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step organisation in 2014, where he stayed until 2024 before riding for Tudor Pro Cycling Team. He became a classics specialist, taking second place at La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2015, winning the 2016 Tour of California, and later wearing the rainbow jersey of world champion. At the 2019 Tour de France he won two stages and spent fourteen days in the yellow jersey before finishing fifth overall. He rode the road race and time trial at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He is the brother of the racing cyclist Bryan Alaphilippe.