Romain Bardet

Romain Bardet is a French former professional racing cyclist, born on 9 November 1990 in Brioude. He was known for his climbing and descending, which made him one of the leading general classification contenders in the Grand Tours, and his best results came mostly on home roads. He won four stages of the Tour de France in four separate years, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2024, finished in the top ten overall for five consecutive years from 2014 to 2018, and stood on the podium twice, second overall in 2016 and third in 2017. He also won the mountains classification in 2019 and the overall combativity award in 2015, took a stage of the 2021 Vuelta a España and won the general classification of the 2022 Tour of the Alps. He represented France in the road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics. After retiring from the road in the wake of the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné he turned to professional gravel racing.