Brice Feillu

Brice Feillu
Feillu at the 2011 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full nameBrice Feillu
Born (1985-07-26) 26 July 1985 (age 39)
Châteaudun, France
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur teams
2004Agritubel–Loudun 86
2005–2008CC Nogent-sur-Oise
2008Agritubel (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2009Agritubel
2010Vacansoleil
2011Leopard Trek
2012–2013Saur–Sojasun[1]
2014–2019Bretagne–Séché Environnement[2][3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2009)

Brice Feillu (born 26 July 1985) is a French former road racing cyclist,[4] who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the Agritubel, Vacansoleil, Leopard Trek, Sojasun and Arkéa–Samsic teams.

Career

Born in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir, he is the younger brother of Romain Feillu, who was also a road racing cyclist. Brice Feillu achieved his greatest success with a stage victory on Stage 7 (from Barcelona to Arcalis, Andorra) of the 2009 Tour de France, the highest finish of that year's tour and the longest stage.

Feillu joined Bretagne–Séché Environnement for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Sojasun – folded at the end of the 2013 season.[2]

Major results

2007
7th Overall Tour Alsace
1st Young rider classification
10th Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou
2008
2nd Overall Paris–Corrèze
6th Overall Tour Alsace
1st Stage 5
2009
1st Stage 7 Tour de France
2010
8th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
8th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
2012
6th Overall Volta a Portugal
8th Klasika Primavera
10th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
2014
2nd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
2015
1st Mountains classification, Tour de l'Ain
9th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
2016
1st Mountains classification, Tour de Luxembourg
9th Overall Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc
2017
1st Mountains classification, Tour de Luxembourg
4th Overall Route du Sud
6th Overall Tour de l'Ain

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — DNF — — — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France 25 — — 91 104 16 98 70 16
A red jersey Vuelta a España Did not contest during his career
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ "Feillu finds saviour in Saur-Sojasun". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Feillu brothers reunited in 2014 as duo ink deals with Bretagne-Séché Environnement". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Arkéa-Samsic". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Brice Feillu arrêtera sa carrière à la fin de la saison" [Brice Feillu to end career at season end]. L'Équipe (in French). Éditions Philippe Amaury. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.