Christophe Riblon

Christophe Riblon (born 17 January 1981) is a French former road and track racing cyclist who competed as a professional for the team for 13 seasons between 2005 and 2017. He also competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Career
Born in Tremblay-en-France, Seine-Saint-Denis, Riblon won two mountain-top finishes of the Tour de France, including stage 14 of the 2010 Tour de France at the ski resort of Ax-3 Domaines in the Pyrenees, and stage 18 of the 2013 Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez.

During his 2010 victory, he was part of the early breakaway that went free 30 km into the race, and he crested the penultimate climb of the day alone, the Port de Pailheres. He had a two-minute lead at the foot of the last climb, and held on to win solo as the general classification contenders were battling it out behind him.

He won his 2013 stage following a long breakaway, chasing down Tejay van Garderen over the second ascent of Alpe d'Huez and holding on to win by a minute, despite crashing into a ditch on the descent of the Col de Sarenne. In doing so he became the race's first (and only) French winner of a stage that year.

Major results

 * 2001
 * 8th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies


 * 2004
 * 1st MaillotFra.PNG Road race, National Amateur Road Championships


 * 2005
 * 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
 * 8th Tartu GP
 * 10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes


 * 2006
 * 5th GP Plumelec-Morbihan
 * 7th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
 * 1st Stage 4


 * 2007
 * 1st Tour de la Somme
 * 2nd Duo Normand (with Émilien-Benoît Bergès)


 * 2008
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Points race, UCI Track World Championships


 * 2009
 * 1st Stage 3 Route du Sud
 * 6th Clásica de San Sebastián


 * 2010
 * 1st Stage 14 Tour de France
 * 1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Madison (with Morgan Kneisky), UCI Track World Championships
 * 5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
 * 5th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
 * 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné


 * 2011
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 7th Tour du Doubs
 * 8th Overall Tour de Pologne
 * 10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes


 * 2012
 * 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 9th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
 * 10th Overall Critérium International


 * 2013
 * Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 18
 * Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 18 & Overall
 * 3rd Overall Tour de Pologne
 * 1st Stage 2


 * 2014
 * 4th Overall Tour de Pologne


 * 2015
 * 7th Overall Tour de Pologne