Romain Sicard (born 1 January 1988) is a French former professional
racing cyclist
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who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for the , and teams.
Career
Born in
Bayonne
Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...
, Sicard won the Tour de l'Avenir and the under 23
World Road Race Championships in 2009, the only man to win both in the same season. In 2010, he joined the Basque
UCI ProTour
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team as the second ever French national after .
Sicard joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team – – folded at the end of the 2013 season.
He announced his retirement in April 2021 due to the diagnosis of a cardiac anomaly.
Major results
;2008
: 9th Overall
Ronde de l'Isard
The Ronde de l'Isard is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It is organized as a 2.2U 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 C ...
;2009
: 1st
![Jersey rainbow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Jersey_rainbow.svg)
Road race,
UCI Under-23 Road World UChampionships
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de l'Avenir
Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents ...
::1st Stage 8 (
ITT)
: 1st
Subida al Naranco
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: 1st Stage 2
Ronde de l'Isard
The Ronde de l'Isard is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It is organized as a 2.2U 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 C ...
: 3rd Overall
Tour du Haut-Anjou
The Tour du Haut-Anjou was a road bicycle race held annually in France. It was organized as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
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: 4th Overall
Cinturó de l'Empordà
The Cinturó de l'Empordà was a road bicycle race held annually in Spain. It was organized 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 U ...
: 9th Overall
Tour du Loir-et-Cher
The Tour du Loir-et-Cher is a cycling stage race that takes place in the Loir-et-Cher region of France. The race traditionally starts and finishes in the capital of Blois. Since at least 2009, the final stage has consisted of a 12-lap circuit r ...
: 10th
Vuelta a La Rioja
The Vuelta a La Rioja ( en, Tour of La Rioja) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race held in La Rioja. From 2005 to 2008, it was a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...
;2010
: 9th
Vuelta a La Rioja
The Vuelta a La Rioja ( en, Tour of La Rioja) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race held in La Rioja. From 2005 to 2008, it was a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...
: 10th Overall
Bayern–Rundfahrt
;2014
: 7th Overall
Tour de l'Ain
Tour de l'Ain, also known as the Prix de l'Amitié, is an annual professional road bicycle racing, cycling stage race held in eastern France.
G.P. de l'Amitié
The first edition of the race was in 1970, as the G.P. de l'Amitié (Friendship G.P.) ...
;2015
: 5th
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, National Road Championships
: 6th Overall
Vuelta a Castilla y León
The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, Vuelta a Castilla y León has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bi ...
;2016
: 8th Overall
Critérium International
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;2017
: 2nd Overall
Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
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: 5th
Tour du Doubs
The Tour du Doubs is a single-day road bicycle race, currently held annually in September in the region of Doubs, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour and since 2010 it is part of the French Road Cycli ...
: 7th Overall
Tour du Limousin
Tour du Limousin is a 4-day road bicycle race held annually in Limousin, France. It was first held in 1968 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2011 it was upgraded to an 2.HC The UCI 1.HC and UCI 2.HC ar ...
: 8th Overall
Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
The Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ( en, International Week of Coppi and Bartali), also known as Coppi e Bartali, is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically in late March over five days in the Emilia-Romagna region of Ital ...
;2018
: 8th
Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
The Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon is a multi-day road cycling race that has been held annually in France since 2010. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.1
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in ...
: 10th
Classic de l'Ardèche
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
French male cyclists
Sportspeople from Bayonne
Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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