Arthur Vichot

Arthur Vichot (born 26 November 1988) is a French former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020, for the and  teams. He is the nephew of Frédéric Vichot, who won stages in the Tour de France in 1984 and 1985.

Professional career
One tradition of the Tour Down Under is that the fans choose an unknown rider and treat him the way they would a star, by mobbing him at hotels and painting his name on the road. The rider must be a non-English speaking domestique who most likely will not get a start at a major race and will simply act as a bottle carrier. For 2010, in his first professional race, Arthur Vichot was chosen.

He started the 2011 season by taking fifth position at the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise. The next month, he went on to win the Boucles du Sud Ardèche, and he was selected to ride in Paris–Nice. Bad luck struck in the race as he crashed hard and cracked his clavicle, preventing him from racing the Ardennes classics. He was selected to race the Tour de France. He finished the event in 104th position after playing a role of domestique. In September, he achieved a solo victory near his home in the Tour du Doubs. He also cracked the top ten in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, finishing eighth.

In 2012, Vichot conquered the biggest victory of his career up to that point in the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, a mountainous affair that led the riders across the Col de la Colombière. He was part of the breakaway that formed at the beginning of the race and resisted to the bunch. With 6 km to go, Vichot distanced the remnants of the leading group, earning a solo victory.

In 2013 and 2016, Vichot won the French National Road Race Championships and the right to wear the coveted tricolor jersey in the Tour de France.

Major results

 * 2008
 * 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
 * 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2009
 * 3rd Overall Circuit des Ardennes


 * 2010
 * 1st Stage 2 Paris–Corrèze
 * 8th Overall Tour de Wallonie


 * 2011
 * 1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
 * 1st Tour du Doubs
 * 5th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
 * 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges


 * 2012
 * 1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné
 * 2nd Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
 * 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 10th Boucles de l'Aulne


 * 2013
 * 1st MaillotFra.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Haut Var
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
 * 4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
 * 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
 * 10th Overall Tour Méditerranéen


 * 2014
 * 3rd Overall Paris–Nice
 * 1st Stage 8
 * 3rd GP Ouest–France
 * 5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
 * 5th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 8th Overall Tour du Limousin


 * 2015
 * 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
 * 8th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
 * 8th Vuelta a Murcia


 * 2016
 * 1st MaillotFra.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Haut Var
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
 * 3rd La Drôme Classic
 * 3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
 * 5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
 * 7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 7th Trofeo Laigueglia
 * Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 11 Tour de France


 * 2017
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Haut Var
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
 * 2nd La Drôme Classic
 * 4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
 * 6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
 * 7th Trofeo Laigueglia


 * 2018
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de l'Ain
 * 1st Points classification
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne
 * 4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
 * 5th La Drôme Classic
 * 7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
 * 10th Overall Tour de Suisse


 * 2019
 * 6th La Drôme Classic