Rider Profile

Romain Bardet

Team dsm-firmenich-PostNL

Personal Details:

Nationality France
Date of birth 09/11/1990

Biography:

Romain Bardet has been a GC leader at two WorldTour teams - Team dsm-firmenich PostNL and AG2R La Mondiale - for 14 seasons. The Frenchman, born in Brioude on November 9, 1990, looks to compete for an 11th time at the Tour de France in 2024.

After turning heads at the age of 20 with stage wins at Tour de l’Avenir and Tour des Pays de Savoie, he signed with WorldTour-level AG2R La Mondiale in 2012, remaining there through 2020. It was there he carried the country’s Tour de France dreams along with Thibaut Pinot for the better part of a decade. Bardet had his best result with a second place at the 2016 Tour. He had six top 10s to his name as well as a top 10 at the 2021 Giro d'Italia.

Bardet has been one of the top stage racers of his generation and is frequently in the mix for wins at WorldTour level, though he's only won the overall at two stage races in his career – the 2013 Tour de l'Ain and the 2022 Tour of the Alps. With Team DSM, he was sixth at the Tour in 2022 and seventh at the Giro in 2021.

His palmarès also includes three stage wins at the Tour de France between 2015 and 2017, the mountains classification title at the 2019 Tour, a stage of the 2015 Critérium du Dauphiné, and a stage at the 2021 Vuelta a España, where he finished second in the mountain classification to then-teammate Michael Storer. At the Road World Championships in 2018, Bardet captured the silver medal for France.


Key Results

2023

🥈 One stage at Vuelta a España

🥉 One stage at Vuelta a España

2022

🥇 GC Tour of the Alpes

🥈 One stage at Tour de France

🥈 One stage at Giro d’Italia

🥈 Mountains classification at Deutschland  Tour

2021

🥇 One stage at Vuelta a España

🥇 One stage and mountains classification at Vuelta a Burgos

🥈 Mountains classification at Vuelta a España

🥈 One stage at Giro d’Italia

2020

🥈 GC at Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var

2019

🥇 Mountains classification at Tour de France

🥈 One stage at Tour de France

🥈 One stage and GC at Tour Cycliste du Haut Var

2018

🥈 World Championships road race

🥈 Giro della Toscana

🥈 Strade Bianche

🥉 Two stages at Tour de France

🥉 One stage and GC at Critérium du Dauphiné

🥉 Liège-Bastogne-Liège

2017

🥇 One stage at Tour de France

🥉 One stage and GC at Tour de France

2016

🥇 One stage at Tour de France

🥈 GC at Tour de France

🥈 Giro dell’Emilia

🥈 GC at Critérium du Dauphiné

🥈 GC at Tour of Oman

2015

🥇 One stage at Tour de France

🥈 Youth classification at Tour de France

🥉 Two stages at Tour de France

2014

🥈 One stage and GC at Tour de l’Ain

🥈 Youth classification at Tour de France

2013

🥇 Points classification and GC at Tour de l’Ain

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