Dominique Rollin (born 29 October 1982) is a Canadian former professional cyclist. Born in

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, 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, 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 The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the ...

. 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. Thanks to that performance, he grabbed the lead in the sprints classification and would defend the jersey successfully for the remainder of the race. In 2009 he got his chance to join a major European professional team in the Swiss-based, Canadian-sponsored , 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 The UCI ProTour was a series of road bicycle races in Europe, Australia and Canada organised by the UCI (International Cycling Union). Created by Hein Verbruggen, former president of the UCI, it comprises a number of 'ProTour' cycling teams, ea ...

team . 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 announced that they had signed Rollin alongside his former FDJ teammates

Nacer Bouhanni Nacer Bouhanni (born 25 July 1990) is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . A sprinter, he was the winner of the 2012 French National Road Race Championships. Although his first Grand Tour was in 2012, his r ...

and

Geoffrey Soupe Geoffrey Soupe (born 22 March 1988) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Soupe was the 2010 under-23 French national champion for the road race, and finished second to Great Britain's Alex Dowsett in t ...

for 2015.

Career achievements

Major results

;2005 : 1st 1 stage

Tour de Beauce Tour de Beauce is a men's elite professional road bicycle racing multi-day event held each June in the Beauce region of Quebec, Canada since 1986. It is the oldest stage-race in North America, and is a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-rated 2.2 ...

;2006 : 1st MaillotCan

National Road Race Championships :1st 1 stage

Tour de Gironde The Tour de Gironde is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It was organised as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cy ...

;2007 :3rd overall

Tour of Missouri The Tour of Missouri was a professional road bicycle racing stage race in Missouri that started on September 11, 2007 with six days of racing. The organizers, who also run the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen Tour of California, billed it as the third ...

Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...

Time Trial ;2008 :

::1st Stage 4 ::1st Sprints classification :1st Overall

Rochester Omnium The Rochester Twilight Criterium is an annual professional bicycle racing event on the National Criterium Calendar of USA Cycling. The event, a fast race on a short loop along downtown streets in Rochester, New York, started in 2004. In 2008, it ...

& 1 Stage :1st 1 stage

Tour of Southland The Tour of Southland is a road bicycle racing stage race held in the Southland region of New Zealand. From 2005 until 2009, the Tour of Southland has been part of the UCI Oceania Tour however the 2010 event was held as a National Tour. The To ...

:2nd Overall

Tour de Murrieta The Tour de Murrieta is a stage race, multi-day cycling race held annually in March around Murrieta, California. Winners Men Women References External links

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:9th Overall

:: 1st Mountains classification ;2009 :5th Profronde van Drenthe :3rd

Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen The Scheldeprijs is a cycling race in Flanders and the Netherlands which starts in Terneuzen, crosses the Scheldt River, and finishes in Schoten. Until 2018 it was held entirely in Belgium. The event, ranked as a 1.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour ...

;2010 : 2nd

Tour du Poitou-Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI E ...

;2011 :10th

Dwars door Vlaanderen Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI W ...

;2013 :6th

Cholet-Pays de Loire Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Cholet, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle rac ...

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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About Dominique Rollin

Palmares on Cycling Base (French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rollin, Dominique Living people 1982 births Canadian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2007 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games People from Boucherville Sportspeople from Quebec Pan American Games medalists in cycling Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada French Quebecers