Matthieu Ladagnous
 Ladagnous at the 2007 Tour de France | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 December 1984 Pau, France |
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Disciplines |
|
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Rouleur |
| Professional team | |
| 2006–2023 | Française des Jeux[2][3] |
Matthieu Ladagnous (born 12 December 1984) is a French former road and track racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023, spending his entire career with UCI WorldTeam Française des Jeux.[4]
Riding entirely for the Française des Jeux team and its succeeding iterations since his début in 2006, Ladagnous has taken eleven victories during his professional career, including victories in the 2007 Four Days of Dunkirk and 2009 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo stage races.
Career[edit]
Born in Pau, Ladagnous became junior world champion at the madison in Melbourne, Australia in 2002 with his partner Tom Thiblier. In 2003 he won the French national title at the points race for the under-23 level. He also won a bronze medal at the individual sprint (under-23) and a silver medal at the madison with Fabien Patanchon in the elite class. Later that year he and Patanchon became European champions at the under-23 track cycling championships. A year later he won the bronze medal at the scratch in the 2003 under-23 championships. He improved his bronze national individual pursuit manager into a gold, while his points race gold was changed in a silver in 2004. In the elite class he won the madison gold, again alongside Patanchon.
In 2005 he first continued as a track cyclist and added another national under-23 silver to his palmarès at the individual pursuit. A silver medal in the elite class was added at the madison where he teamed up with Patanchon again. At the team pursuit he, Anthony Langella, Fabien Sanchez and Mickaël Mallie won the gold medal and became national elite champions. At the 2005 European championships in Fiorenzuola d'Arda he won a silver medal at the points race. In 2005 he also made his first road cycling appearance. He immediately won the prologue in the Mainfranken-Tour (under-23) and the overall classification. He decided to focus mainly at the road for the 2006 season, but won another team pursuit gold with Mickaël Delage, Jonathan Mouchel, Mikaël Preau and Sylvain Blanquefort. He booked his first road race win in 2006, when he won the fifth stage of the Tour Méditerranéen. The following year he won the fifth stage and the general classification of the Four Days of Dunkirk.
He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[5]
In January 2023, entering his eighteenth season as a professional – all with Groupama–FDJ and its preceding iterations – Ladagnous announced that he would retire from the sport at the end of the year.[6]
Personal life[edit]
He is the brother of French rugby union international Caroline Ladagnous.[7]
Major results[edit]
Track[edit]
- 2002
- 1st
Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships - 2003
- 1st
Madison, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships - National Track Championships
- 1st
Under-23 points race - 2nd Madison
- 3rd Under-23 individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2004
- National Track Championships
- 1st Madison
- 1st Under-23 individual pursuit
- 2nd Points race
- 1st
- 3rd
Scratch, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships - 3rd
Scratch, UCI Track World Cup Classics, Sydney - 2005
- National Track Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Madison
- 2nd Under-23 individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2nd
Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships - 2nd UIV Cup, Rotterdam
- 2006
- 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
Road[edit]
Source: [8]
- 2005
- 1st
Overall Mainfranken-Tour Under-23
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 1st Stages 2a & 3
- 5th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
- 9th Road race, Mediterranean Games
- 2006
- 1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen
- 6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 6th Tour de Vendée
- 7th Le Samyn
- 2007
- 1st
Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 5
- 1st
- 4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2009
- 1st Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Polynormande
- 2nd Tour de Vendée
- 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 4th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 2010
- 2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 2nd Cholet-Pays de Loire
- 4th Tour du Doubs
- 2011
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie
- 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 4th Tour du Doubs
- 5th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 7th Tro-Bro Léon
- 8th Polynormande
- 2012
- 5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 7th E3 Harelbeke
- 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2013
- 1st Boucles de l'Aulne
- 1st Stage 3 Tour du Limousin
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 6th Gent–Wevelgem
- 6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 2014
- 7th Tour de Vendée
- 2015
- 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 2016
- 2nd Overall La Méditerranéenne
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 6th Overall Tour de Picardie
- 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2018
- 7th Paris–Camembert
- 8th La Roue Tourangelle
- 8th Tour du Doubs
- 8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
- 2020
Combativity award Stage 11 Tour de France- 2022
- 10th Tro-Bro Léon
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 97 | DNF | — | — |
 Tour de France
|
112 | — | — | 93 | — | 85 | — | 76 | 71 | DNF | — | — | 126 | 94 |
 / Vuelta a España
|
— | 89 | 63 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 98 | — | — | — | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References[edit]
- ^ "Matthieu Ladagnous". Groupama–FDJ. Société de Gestion de L'Echappée. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ^ "Groupama-FDJ confirm 28 riders for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Groupama - FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Groupama - FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "2017: 100th Giro d'Italia: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ Duby, Julien (13 January 2023). "Cyclisme. Après 18 ans de carrière, le Béarnais Matthieu Ladagnous raccrochera en fin de saison" [Cycling. After an 18-year career, Béarnais Matthieu Ladagnous will hang it up at the end of the season]. Sud Ouest (in French). Groupe Sud Ouest. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ^ "Matthieu et Caroline Ladagnous, une fratrie de sport" [Matthieu and Caroline Ladagnous, sports siblings]. Ouest-France (in French). 8 August 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ "Matthieu Ladagnous". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
External links[edit]
- Matthieu Ladagnous at UCI
- Matthieu Ladagnous at Cycling Archives
- Matthieu Ladagnous at ProCyclingStats
- Matthieu Ladagnous at CQ Ranking
- Matthieu Ladagnous at CycleBase
- Matthieu Ladagnous at Olympedia
- Matthieu Ladagnous at Olympics.com
- Matthieu Ladagnous at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
| Artists | |
|---|---|
| People | |
- 1984 births
- Living people
- French male cyclists
- French track cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for France
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games competitors for France
- Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine