Dominique Rollin

Dominique Rollin
Rollin at the 2011 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full nameDominique Rollin
Born (1982-10-29) 29 October 1982 (age 42)
Boucherville, Quebec
Height188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
2004USSA Pavilly Barentin
2005Equipe du Quebec
2005Gypco Télé-Annonces
2006Vélo-Club de Roubaix Lille Métropole
Professional teams
2001–2002Sympatico – Jet Fuel Coffee
2007Kodakgallery.com – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
2008Toyota–United
2009–2010Cervélo TestTeam
2011–2013FDJ
2015Cofidis
Major wins
Tour of California, 1 Stage
Rochester Omnium
National Road Race Championships (2006)

Dominique Rollin (born 29 October 1982) is a Canadian former professional cyclist.[1]

Born in Boucherville, Quebec, Rollin began his professional career in 2001 with the team Sympatico High Speed-Jet Fuel Coffee and again the following year, 2002 with Sympatico Edition Haute Vitese. He then spent three years in France racing as an elite amateur under director-sportif Guy Gallopin for the Roubaix team. After having issues with the way he was treated during Roubaix's transition to a professional team,[2] he returned to North America to ride for the Kodakgallery.com - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. team.

For 2008 Rollin joined the Toyota-United team, with whom he won the Rochester Omnium and the fourth stage of the Tour of California. He won the stage with a nearly seven-hour breakaway in a driving rainstorm, just holding off his fellow breakaway companions after attacking near the finish.[3] Thanks to that performance, he grabbed the lead in the sprints classification and would defend the jersey successfully for the remainder of the race.[4]

In 2009 he got his chance to join a major European professional team in the Swiss-based, Canadian-sponsored Cervélo TestTeam, with his best result of the year coming at the Scheldeprijs semi-classic where he reached the podium with a third place. In October 2010, he signed for two years with the ProTour team FDJ.

Rollin initially retired from racing at the end of 2013 after being unable to secure a contract for the 2014 season. However, in August 2014 Cofidis announced that they had signed Rollin alongside his former FDJ teammates Nacer Bouhanni and Geoffrey Soupe for 2015.[5]

Career achievements

Major results

2005
1st 1 stage Tour de Beauce
2006
1st National Road Race Championships
1st 1 stage Tour de Gironde
2007
3rd overall Tour of Missouri
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pan American Games Time Trial
2008
Tour of California
1st Stage 4
1st Sprints classification
1st Overall Rochester Omnium & 1 Stage
1st 1 stage Tour of Southland
2nd Overall Tour de Murrieta
9th Overall Tour of Missouri
1st Mountains classification
2009
5th Profronde van Drenthe
3rd Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen
2010
2nd Tour du Poitou-Charentes
2011
10th Dwars door Vlaanderen
2013
6th Cholet-Pays de Loire

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — DNF 75
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — — —
A red jersey Vuelta a España DNF — — 153 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ "FDJ – FRA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  2. ^ Lamoureux, Lyne (11 February 2008). "Dominique Rollin - Bring it on". Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  3. ^ Mark Zalewski (21 February 2012). "Rollin survives epic ride for epic win". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  4. ^ Mark Zalewski (24 February 2008). "Hincapie redeems High Road". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  5. ^ Farrand, Stephen (1 August 2014). "Transfers: Cofidis confirms the arrival of Nacer Bouhanni". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 August 2014.

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