Guillaume Boivin
 Boivin in 2011 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Guillaume Boivin |
| Born |
25 May 1989 Montreal, Quebec |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb; 12.3 st)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Rally Cycling |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2009 | Planet Energy (stagiaire) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2010–2012 | SpiderTech–Planet Energy |
| 2013–2014 | Cannondale |
| 2015- | Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies |
Medal record
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Infobox last updated on 3 October 2014 | |
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Guillaume Boivin (born 25 May 1989 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian racing cyclist, riding for the Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies team.[2]
His greatest cycling accomplishment was finishing in a dead heat for the bronze at the World Under-23 Road Race Championships in 2010.[3] He finished 3rd in the 2012 Tro Bro Leon, getting on the podium with his teammate Ryan Roth, who won the race.[4] In October 2014, it was announced that Boivin would leave Cannondale and ride with Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies in 2015.[5] On 29 April 2015, on the first stage of the Tour of the Gila, Boivin was the last man remaining of a breakaway that was caught by eventual solo winner, Rafael Montiel. Boivin took the second place of the mountaintop finish.[6]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2008
- 1st Overall Tour de Québec
- 1st Stage 3
- 2009
- 1st National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2010
- 1st Tour de Québec
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Sparkassen Giro Bochum
- 3rd World Under-23 Road Championships
- 2012
- 2nd Ronde van Drenthe
- 3rd Tro-Bro Léon
- 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 4th Handzame Classic
- 6th Grand Prix de Denain
- 7th Overall World Ports Classic
- 10th Scheldeprijs
- 2013
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Beauce
- 2015
- 1st Stage 3b Tour de Beauce
- 1st
National road race Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|
 Giro |
- | - |
 Tour |
- | - |
 Vuelta |
WD | 149 |
WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress
References
- 1 2 "Team SpiderTech Biography – Guillaume Boivin". Team SpiderTech official website.
- ↑ Atkins, Ben (3 December 2012). "Lucas Sebastian Haedo to Cannondale Pro Cycling in 2013". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
Haedo will join Sagan, Guillaume Boivin – who joins from Spidertech p/b C10 – and Elia Viviani as one of the team’s sprint specialists.
- ↑ "Phinney, Boivin tie makes U23 Worlds history".
- ↑ Quénet, Jean-François (15 April 2012). "Roth wins Tro-Bro Leon". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ↑ Maxwell Nagel (2 October 2014). "Optum signs three Canadian riders for 2015". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ↑ "Montiel, Abbott strike first at Tour of the Gila". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
External links
Media related to Guillaume Boivin at Wikimedia Commons
- Guillaume Boivin profile at ProCyclingStats
- Guillaume Boivin profile at Cycling Archives
- Team Bio